Definition of steal

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Steal (v. t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.

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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.
Steal :: Stealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stea.
Resurrectionist :: Resurrectionist (n.) One who steals bodies from the grave, as for dissection..
Pilfer :: Pilfer (v. t.) To take by petty theft; to filch; to steal little by little.
Thuggee :: Thuggee (n.) The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.
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.
Abactor :: Abactor (n.) One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves.
Rob :: Rob (v. t.) To take (something) away from by force; to strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from.
Purloin :: Purloin (v. i.) To practice theft; to steal.
Nuthook :: Nuthook (n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors..
Manstealing :: Manstealing (n.) The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e/slave them..
Furtive :: Furtive (a.) Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look..
Deerstalking :: Deerstalking (n.) The hunting of deer on foot, by stealing upon them unawares..
Parosteal :: Parosteal () Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification..
Stole :: Stole () imp. of Steal.
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. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate..
Parasite :: Parasite (n.) An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager..
Ectosteal :: Ectosteal (a.) Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification..
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