Word Meanings - THIEVISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie. 2. Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret. Time's thievish progress to eternity. Shak. 3. Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest;
Additional info about word: THIEVISH
1. Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie. 2. Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret. Time's thievish progress to eternity. Shak. 3. Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice. Or with a base and biosterous sword enforce A thievish living on the common road. Shak. -- Thiev"ish*ly, adv. -- Thiev"ish*ness, n.
Related words: (words related to THIEVISH)
- ACTURE
Action. Shak. - ACTURIENCE
Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote. - ACTINOLITE
A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses. - ACTINOSTOME
The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal. - 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. - ACTINARIA
A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not. - ACTUARIAL
Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity. - ACTUALIZE
To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge. - SECRETE
To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See - ACTIVITY
The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness. - ACTUATE
Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest - PROGRESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress. - PROGRESS
to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase. - ACTINOPHOROUS
Having straight projecting spines. - ACCOMPLISHED
1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished - ACTION
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of - SECRETARY
secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public - ACTUAL
1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality; - ACTINOST
One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish. - MAGPIE
Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail. Note: The common European magpie is a black and white noisy and mischievous bird. It can be taught to speak. The - SELF-ACTIVE
Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - HEMIDACTYL
Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath. - PHYLACTERED
Wearing a phylactery. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - INACTUATE
To put in action. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - COUNTERACTIVE
Tending to counteract. - RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - LACTOSCOPE
An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. - OLFACTOR
A smelling organ; a nose. - AUTODIDACT
One who is self-taught; an automath.