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Finger :: Finger (v. t.) To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.

Purloin :: Purloin (v. t.) To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch..

Cabbage :: Cabbage (n.) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.

Purlieu :: Purlieu (n.) Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood..

Purled :: Purled (imp. & p. p.) of Pur.

Purl :: Purl (v. i.) To run swiftly round, as a small stream flowing among stones or other obstructions; to eddy; also, to make a murmuring sound, as water does in running over or through obstructions..

Plagiary :: Plagiary (n.) One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist..

Purling :: Purling (n.) The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing..

Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing.

Spurling-line :: Spurling (n.) A tern.

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers..

Purlieu :: Purlieu (n.) Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights..

Purl :: Purl (n.) A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook..

Calcar :: Calcar (n.) A spur, or spurlike prominence..

Purl :: Purl (n.) An inversion of stitches in knitting, which gives to the work a ribbed or waved appearance..

Purloin :: Purloin (v. i.) To practice theft; to steal.

Purloined :: Purloined (imp. & p. p.) of Purloi.

Purl :: Purl (n.) A tern.

Purline :: Purline (n.) In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters..

Abstraction :: Abstraction (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.

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