- (v.t.) To gain by insinuating arts or covert means.
- (v.i.) To withdraw or pass privily; to slip in, along or away, unperceived; to go or come furtively.
- (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 accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look.
- (v.t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively or to insinuate.
- (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.i.) To practice or be guilty of, theft; to commit larceny or theft.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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