villain

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(person) by Jet-Poop (14 hr) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:07:10
The bad guy. The antagonist. The foe. The enemy.

In fiction, famous villains have included the Big Bad Wolf, Shylock, Bill Sikes, Moriarty, Dracula, Injun Joe, Mr. Dark, Yosemite Sam, Goldfinger, Darth Vader, the Joker, Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, Team Rocket, and Hannibal Lector. Real-life villains have included Jack the Ripper, Torquemada, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Charles Starkweather, Idi Amin, Jerry Falwell, Osama bin Laden, and John Ashcroft.

They must be stopped.
(thing) by bane221 (1.2 mon) (print)   (I like it!) Thu Feb 06 2003 at 23:35:16
Villain is a wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure in Aurora, OH. Built by Custom Coaster International, Inc. (CCI), Villain opened May 5th, 2000 as part of Six Flags' plan to rework and vastly improve an old park. Superman: Ultimate Escape and Batman Knight Flight opened on the same day as part of the same plan. This wooden masterpiece packs a punch regardless of the shorter height in comparison to some other wooden beasts.

Villain
  • Height: 108'
  • Max Speed: 59 mph
  • Length: 3980'
Resources include roller coaster database and my own personal love of negative G's.
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:17:05

Vil"lain (?), n. [OE. vilein, F. vilain, LL. villanus, from villa a village, L. villa a farm. See Villa.]

1. FeudalLaw

One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant.

[In this sense written also villan, and villein.]

If any of my ansectors was a tenant, and a servant, and held his lands as a villain to his lord, his posterity also must do so, though accidentally they become noble. Jer. Taylor.

⇒ Villains were of two sorts; villains regardant, that is, annexed to the manor (LL. adscripti glebae); and villains in gross, that is, annexed to the person of their lord, and transferable from one to another.

Blackstone.

2.

A baseborn or clownish person; a boor.

[R.]

Pour the blood of the villain in one basin, and the blood of the gentleman in another, what difference shall there be proved? Becon.

3.

A vile, wicked person; a man extremely depraved, and capable or guilty of great crimes; a deliberate scoundrel; a knave; a rascal; a scamp.

Like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shak.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix. Pope.

 

© Webster 1913.

Vil"lain, a. [F. vilain.]

Villainous.

[R.]

Shak.

 

© Webster 1913.

Vil"lain, v. t.

To debase; to degrade.

[Obs.]

Sir T. More.

 

© Webster 1913.

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