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Word Meanings - PILFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft. (more info) Etym:

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  • SMUGGLER
    1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling.
  • PILFERY
    Petty theft. Sir T. North.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • STEALTHLIKE
    Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
  • SWINDLERY
    Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.
  • PILFERING
    Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n.
  • STEALTHFUL
    Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
  • FILCHER
    One who filches; a thief.
  • PILFERER
    One who pilfers; a petty thief.
  • PILFER
    To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft. (more info) Etym:
  • STEALER
    The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief.
  • SMUGGLE
    smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, 1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by
  • STEALTHINESS
    The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.
  • EMBEZZLER
    One who embezzles.
  • STEALING
    1. The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. 2. That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
  • 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.
  • PAROSTEAL
    Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
  • ECTOSTEAL
    Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
  • OTOSTEAL
    An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.

 

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