RASCAL  , a See also:

• TERM

term originally used in the sense of a See also:

• RABBLE

rabble, especially descriptive of See also:

• CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

camp-followers or the dregs of an See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, or of the lowest of the See also:

• PEOPLE

people; now only of a single See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person, in the sense of a See also:

• ROGUE

rogue or See also:

• KNAVE (O.E. cnafa, cognate with Ger. Knabe, boy)

knave . The origin of O.Fr. rascaille, See also:

• MODERN

modern racaille, from which the word came into See also:

• ENGLISH

English, is uncertain . The word was See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early used, in See also:

• HUNTING (the verbal substantive from " hunt "; O. Eng. huntian, hunta; apparently connected with O. Eng. hentan, Gothic hinpan, to capture, O.H.G. hunda,booty)

hunting, for the weaker or poorer male See also:

• DEER (O. E. rigor, dfor, a common Teutonic word, meaning a wild animal, cf. Ger. Tier, Du. dier, &c., probably from a root dhus-, to breathe)
• DEER, CHINESE

deer of a See also:

• HERD (a word common to Teutonic languages; the O. Eng. form was heord; cf. Ger. Herde, Swed. and Dan. hjord; the Sans. ca'rdhas, which shows the pre-Teutonic form, means a troop)

herd; the word has been connected with O.Fr. rascler, mod. racier, to scrape, See also:

• RAKE (O.E. rata, cognate with Du. raak, Ger. Rechen, from a root meaning to scrape together, heap up)

rake, in the sense of the off-scourings of the herd .