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Receive :: Receive (v. t.) To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen..

Stealer :: Stealer (n.) One who steals; a thief.

Kiddy :: Kiddy (n.) A young fellow; formerly, a low thief..

Filcher :: Filcher (n.) One who filches; a thief.

Micher :: Micher (n.) One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief..

Pilferer :: Pilferer (n.) One who pilfers; a petty thief.

Mainor :: Mainor (n.) A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

Theftbote :: Theftbote (n.) The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment..

Warrantable :: Warrantable (a.) Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable..

Swag-bellied :: Swag (n.) A burglar's or thief's booty; boodle.

Outfangthef :: Outfangthef (v. t.) A thief from without or abroad, taken within a lord's fee or liberty..

Nipper :: Nipper (n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.

Picklock :: Picklock (n.) One who picks locks; a thief.

Thiefly :: Thiefly (a. & adv.) Like a thief; thievish; thievishly.

Detection :: Detection (n.) The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a plot..

Notorious :: Notorious (a.) Generally known and talked of by the public; universally believed to be true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice..

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle.

Thievish :: Thievish (a.) Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.

Innuendo :: Innuendo (n.) An averment employed in pleading, to point the application of matter otherwise unintelligible; an interpretative parenthesis thrown into quoted matter to explain an obscure word or words; -- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief..

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