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n. One who steals, especially by stealth.

n. One who has carried out a theft.

n. A waster in the snuff of a candle.

n. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See theft.

n. A waster in the snuff of a candle.

n. A person who steals, or is guilty of larceny or robbery; one who takes the goods or property of another without the owner's knowledge or consent; especially, one who deprives another of property secretly or without open force, as opposed to a robber, who openly uses violence.

n. A person guilty of cunning or deceitful acts; a lawless person; an evil-doer: used in reproach.

n. An imperfection in the wick of a candle, causing it to gutter.

n. A tin can to which a small line or becket is attached, used as a drinking-cup by sailors. It is made heavier on one side, so that it will capsize when it is dropped in the water.

n. A thief-tube.

n. Same as hermit-crab.

n. Synonyms Pilferer, Pirate (see robber), pickpocket, cutpurse. See pillage, n.

n. The bramble Rubus fruticosus. Compare theve-thorn.

n. a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

"Between thief and -- there was no word for what he and Warvia were now, but every hominid knew the word _thief_."

thieves' latin    thieves' vinegar    bait-thief   

thieve   

thieves    theft   

pickpocket    mugger    burglar    robber    cat burglar   

like a thief   

pilferer    robber    stealer    purloiner    larcener    filcher    lurch    lifter    depredator    micher   

Leif    aperitif    bas-relief    beef    belief    brief    chief    debrief    disbelief    fief   

murderer    robber    liar    villain    assassin    traitor    scoundrel    spy    criminal    beggar