renegade (renegad)

[Also renegado; In the most flourishing days of Ottoman power the great ma of the holders of high office were renegades or sons of renegades ; the native Turk lay almost under a ban. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 427. IMG:content-1959.png:[blocks in formation] 2. In card- playing, to play a card that is not of the suit led (as is allowable in some games); also, by extension, to revoke. Also renig. [U. S.]