thief

[Thief]

A waster in the snuff of a candle.

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

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

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

n.
A waster in the snuff of a candle.

Thief

Thief , n.; pl. Thieves . [OE. thef, theef, AS. e'a2f; akin to OFries. thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. j'd3fr, Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. iufs, iubs, and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or crouch down. Cf. Theft.] 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.

There came a privy thief, men clepeth death.

Where thieves break through and steal.

2. A waster in the snuff of a candle. Bp. Hall. Thief catcher. Same as Thief taker. -- Thief leader, one who leads or takes away a thief. L'Estrange. -- Thief taker, one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice. -- Thief tube, a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask. -- Thieves' vinegar, a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.] Syn. -- Robber; pilferer. -- Thief, Robber. A thief takes our property by stealth; a robber attacks us openly, and strips us by main force.

Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night.

Some roving robber calling to his fellows.

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

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Usage Examples

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.