Word Meanings - FILCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To steal or take privily (commonly, that which is of little value); to pilfer. Fain would they filch that little food away. Dryden. But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FILCH)

• Pilfer
• Abstract
• peculate
• filch
• purloin
• smuggle
• cabbage
• steal
• thieve
• Purloin
• Steal
• seize
• plunder
• Filch
• pilfer
• swindle
• take by theft
• embezzle

Related words: (words related to FILCH)

• SMUGGLER
  1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• ABSTRACTION
  The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or
• THIEVE
  To practice theft; to steal. (more info) Etym:
• EMBEZZLE
  1. To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust; as, to embezzle money held in trust. 2. To misappropriate; to waste; to dissipate in extravagance.
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• ABSTRACTEDLY
  In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• PURLOINER
  One who purloins. Swift.
• ABSTRACTITIOUS
  Obtained from plants by distillation. Crabb.
• ABSTRACTNESS
  The quality of being abstract. "The abstractness of the ideas." Locke.
• PURLOIN
  To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden. (more info) pur, por, pour, for + loin
• CABBAGE
  chou cobus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• SWINDLERY
  Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.
• ABSTRACTIONAL
  Pertaining to abstraction.
• PILFERING
  Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n.
• STEALTHFUL
  Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
  Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.