Word Meanings - PURLOIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: 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 far, far off . See
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PURLOIN)
- Misappropriate
- Misassign
- purloin
- misdistribute
- abuse
- misuse
- Pilfer
- Abstract
- peculate
- filch
- smuggle
- cabbage
- steal
- thieve
- Steal
- Filch
- pilfer
- swindle
- take by theft
- embezzle
Related words: (words related to PURLOIN)
- SMUGGLER
1. One who smuggles. 2. A vessel employed in smuggling. - PILFERY
Petty theft. Sir T. North. - MISASSIGN
To assign wrongly. - 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. - MISUSE
1. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents. South. The sweet poison of misused wine. Milton. 2. To abuse; to treat ill. O, she misused me past the endurance of a block. Shak. Syn. - 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. - 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 - 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. - MISUSER
Unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or varying from, one's right. Bouvier. (more info) 1. One who misuses. "Wretched misusers of language." Coleridge. - SWINDLERY
Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle. - ABSTRACTIONAL
Pertaining to abstraction. - 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.