The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fugitive \Fu"gi*tive\, a. [OE. fugitif, F. fugitif, fr. L.
   fugitivus, fr. fugere to flee. See Bow to bend, and cf.
   Feverfew.]
   1. Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping,
      from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive
      slave; a fugitive debtor.
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            The fugitive Parthians follow.        --Shak.
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            Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself while her
            parents are in tear?                  --Richardson
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            A libellous pamphlet of a fugitive physician. --Sir
                                                  H. Wotton.
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   2. Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away;
      volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; --
      applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive
      colors; a fugitive idea.
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            The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves .
            . . of vegatables.                    --Woodward.
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   Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional,
      and so published that they quickly escape notice.

   Syn: Fleeting; unstable; wandering; uncertain; volatile;
        fugacious; fleeing; evanescent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fugitive \Fu"gi*tive\, n.
   1. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service,
      duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
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   2. Something hard to be caught or detained.
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            Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit. --Harte.
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   Fugitive from justice (Law), one who, having committed a
      crime in one jurisdiction, flees or escapes into another
      to avoid punishment.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Fugitive
Gen. 4:12, 14, a rover or wanderer (Heb. n'a); Judg. 12:4, a
refugee, one who has escaped (Heb. palit); 2 Kings 25:11, a
deserter, one who has fallen away to the enemy (Heb. nophel);
Ezek. 17:21, one who has broken away in flight (Heb. mibrah);
Isa. 15:5; 43:14, a breaker away, a fugitive (Heb. beriah), one
who flees away.

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

135 Moby Thesaurus words for "fugitive":
   DP, Judas, absconder, at large, betrayer, bolter, brief, brittle,
   capricious, changeable, circumforaneous, convict, corruptible,
   criminal, crook, deceiver, deciduous, deserter, desperado,
   desperate criminal, disappearing, discursive, disengaged,
   displaced person, dissolving, divagatory, double-dealer, drifting,
   dying, eloper, emigre, ephemeral, errant, escape artist, escaped,
   escapee, escaper, escapist, evacuee, evanescent, evaporating,
   fading, felon, fickle, fled, fleeing, fleer, fleeting, flitting,
   floating, flown, fly-by-night, flying, footloose,
   footloose and fancy-free, fragile, frail, free, fugacious, gadding,
   gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird, gypsy-like, gypsyish, hot,
   impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, in flight, inconstant,
   insubstantial, jailbird, landloping, lawbreaker, loose, meandering,
   melting, migrational, migratory, mobster, momentary, mortal,
   mutable, nomad, nomadic, nondurable, nonpermanent, on the lam,
   on the loose, out of, outlaw, passing, perishable, public enemy,
   quisling, racketeer, rambling, ranging, refugee, roaming, roving,
   runagate, runaway, running away, scofflaw, scot-free, shifting,
   short-lived, skedaddler, stateless person, straggling, straying,
   strolling, swindler, temporal, temporary, thief, thug, traipsing,
   traitor, transient, transitive, transitory, transmigratory,
   two-timer, undurable, unenduring, unstable, vagabond, vagrant,
   vanishing, volatile, wandering, well out of