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Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser.
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In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
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One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.
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One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
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A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.
v. t.
To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.
adv.
In a fugitive manner.
n.
The quality or condition of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility; fugacity; instability.
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The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
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The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war.
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A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.
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Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding.
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Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
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Subject, or liable, to extradition, as a fugitive from justice.
v. t.
To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
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Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
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Something hard to be caught or detained.
v.
One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
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