Word Meanings - THIEVERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. South. 2. That which is stolen. Shak.
Related words: (words related to THIEVERY)
- SOUTHWEST
Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind. - SOUTHSAY
See SOOTHSAY - SOUTHWESTERLY
To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind. - SOUTHPAW
A pitcher who pitches with the left hand. - HONESTY
Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - SOUTHREN
Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer. - PRACTICER
1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - SOUTHSAYER
See SOOTHSAYER - SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old. - 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 - SOUTHING
Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian - SOUTHERN
A Southerner. - SOUTHNESS
A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday. - HONESTATION
The act of honesting; grace; adornment. W. Montagu. - PRACTICED
1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice. - PRACTICE
1. To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming. "Incline not my heart . . . practice wicked works." Ps. cxli. 4. 2. To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., - SOUTHEASTERN
Of or pertaining to the southeast; southeasterly. - DISHONESTY
1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness. - UNHONEST
Dishonest; dishonorable. Ascham. -- Un*hon"est*ly, adv. Udall. - DEHONESTATE
To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see - 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.