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.
Vil"lain, a. [F. vilain.] Villainous. [R.] Shak.
Vil"lain, v. t. To debase; to degrade. [Obs.] Sir T. More.