purloin

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
purloin
    v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer},
         {cabbage}, {purloin}, {pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf},
         {swipe}, {hook}, {sneak}, {filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Purloin \Pur*loin"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Purloined}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Purloining}.] [OF. purloignier, porloignier, to
   retard, delay; pur, por, pour, for (L. pro) + loin far, far
   off (L. longe). See {Prolong}, and cf. {Eloign}.]
   To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to
   take by theft; to filch.
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         Had from his wakeful custody purloined
         The guarded gold.                        --Milton.
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         when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin ?
                                                  --Dryden.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Purloin \Pur*loin"\, v. i.
   To practice theft; to steal. --Titus ii. 10.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "purloin":
      abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, cabbage,
      cop, crib, defraud, embezzle, extort, filch, hook, lift,
      make off with, nip, palm, pilfer, pinch, poach, run away with,
      rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle,
      swipe, take, thieve, walk off with
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