Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section IV. Possessive Relations
2. Transfer of Property

791. Stealing.

   NOUN:STEALING &c. v.; theft, thievery, robbery, direption [rare]; abstraction, appropriation; plagiary [rare], plagiarism, autoplagiarism; rape, depredation; kidnaping or kidnapping.
  PILLAGE, spoliation, plunder, sack, sackage [rare], rapine, brigandage, latrociny [obs.], latrocinium [Rom. law], highway robbery, holdup [slang, U. S.]; raid, foray, razzia; piracy, privateering, buccaneering; filibustering, filibusterism; burglary, housebreaking; abaction, cattle stealing, cattle lifting [colloq.], horse stealing; automobile -, car- stealing.
  BLACKMAIL, badger game [cant], Black Hand [U. S.].
  PECULATION, embezzlement; fraud [See Deception]; larceny, petty larceny, pilfering, shoplifting.
  THIEVISHNESS, rapacity, predacity, predaciousness; kleptomania.
  Alsatia; Whitefriars; den of Cacus, den of thieves.
  LICENSE TO PLUNDER, letters of marque.
   VERB:STEAL, thieve, rob, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig [cant], bag, nim [obs.], crib [colloq.], cabbage, palm; abstract; appropriate, plagiarize.
  disregard the distinction between meum and tuum.
  ABDUCT, convey away, carry off, kidnap, crimp, impress, press [rare]; make -, walk -, run- off with; run away with; spirit away, seize (lay violent hands on) [See Taking].
  PLUNDER, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer [obs.], maraud, lift cattle [colloq.], poach, smuggle, run; badger [cant], bunko or bunco; hold up; bail up, stick up [both colloq. or slang, Austral.], filibuster.
  SWINDLE, peculate, embezzle; sponge, mulct, rook, bilk, pluck, pigeon [slang], thimblerig; diddle [colloq. or dial.], fleece; defraud [See Deception]; obtain under false pretenses; live by one’s wits.
  rob -, borrow of- Peter to pay Paul; set a thief to catch a thief.
   ADJECTIVE:THIEVING &c. v.; thievish, light-fingered, furacious [rare]; furtive; piratical; predacious or predaceous, predal [obs.], predatory; raptorial (rapacious) [See Taking].
  STOLEN &c. v.
   QUOTATION:Sic vos non vobis.