PURLOIN

v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to take by theft; to filch. Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton. when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden.

2.
v.

To practice theft; to steal. Titus ii. 10.


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