Steal
- n. A handle; a stale, or stele.
- 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.
- v. t. To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate.
- v. t. To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
- 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.
- v. t. To accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
- v. i. To practice, or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.