Definition of steal

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Steal (v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another..

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Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us..
Catlike :: Catlike (a.) Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.
Furtive :: Furtive (a.) Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look..
Stabling :: Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer..
Peculate :: Peculate (v. i.) To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle.
Sneak :: Sneak (v. i.) To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company..
Tiptoe :: Tiptoe (a.) Noiseless; stealthy.
Nim :: Nim (v. t.) To take; to steal; to filch.
Prog :: Prog (v. i.) To steal; to rob; to filch.
Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
Surreption :: Surreption (n.) The act or process of getting in a surreptitious manner, or by craft or stealth..
Poach :: Poach (v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder..
Cunner :: Cunner (n.) A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer..
Reave :: Reave (v. i.) To take away by violence or by stealth; to snatch away; to rob; to despoil; to bereave. [Archaic.
Poach :: Poach (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To steal money.
Thuggee :: Thuggee (n.) The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.
Plagium :: Plagium (n.) Manstealing; kidnaping.
Steal :: Steal (v. t.) To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another..
Kidnapper :: Kidnapper (n.) One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.
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