| Steal |
n. |
A handle; a stale, or stele. |
| Steal |
v. t. |
To take and carry away, feloniously; to take without right or leave, and with intent to keep wrongfully; as, to steal the personal goods of another. |
| Steal |
v. t. |
To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate. |
| Steal |
v. t. |
To gain by insinuating arts or covert means. |
| Steal |
v. t. |
To get into one's power gradually and by imperceptible degrees; to take possession of by a gradual and imperceptible appropriation;
with away. |
| Steal |
v. t. |
To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look. |
| Steal |
v. i. |
To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft. |
| Steal |
v. i. |
To withdraw, or pass privily; to slip in, along, or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively. |
| Stealer |
n. |
One who steals; a thief. |
| Stealer |
n. |
The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. |
| Stealing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Steal |
| Stealing |
n. |
The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. |
| Stealing |
n. |
That which is stolen; stolen property;
chiefly used in the plural. |
| Stealingly |
adv. |
By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. |
| Stealth |
v. t. |
The act of stealing; theft. |
| Stealth |
v. t. |
The thing stolen; stolen property. |
| Stealth |
v. t. |
The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action;
in either a good or a bad sense. |
| Stealthful |
a. |
Given to stealth; stealthy. |
| Stealthily |
adv. |
In a stealthy manner. |
| Stealthiness |
n. |
The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth. |
| Stealthlike |
a. |
Stealthy; sly. |
| Stealthy |
superl. |
Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. |
