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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Furtive :: Furtive (a.) Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look..
Abscond :: Abscond (v. i.) To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor..
Steal :: Steal (v. i.) To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft..
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..
Stolid :: Stolen () p. p. of Steal.
Stealthful :: Stealth (v. t.) The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.
Filch :: Filch (v. t.) To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer..
Piracy :: Piracy (n.) Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land..
Thuggee :: Thuggee (n.) The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.
Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle..
Catlike :: Catlike (a.) Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.
Unhoard :: Unhoard (v. t.) To take or steal from a hoard; to pilfer.
Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To steal.
Deceive :: Deceive (v. t.) To deprive by fraud or stealth; to defraud.
Swiple :: Swipe (v. t.) To pluck; to snatch; to steal.
Steal :: Steal (v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate..
Stealer :: Steal (v. i.) To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively..
Kidnapper :: Kidnapper (n.) One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.
Cutpurse :: Cutpurse (n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocke.
Crib :: Crib (v. t.) To pilfer or purloin; hence, to steal from an author; to appropriate; to plagiarize; as, to crib a line from Milton..
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