ruffian

RUF'FIAN, n.

A boisterous, brutal fellow; a fellow ready for any desperate crime; a robber; a cut-throat; a murderer.

RUF'FIAN, a. Brutal; savagely boisterous; as ruffian rage.

RUF'FIAN, v.i. To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult.