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A pickpocket or thief. [Eng. Slang] Dickens.

th easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson (Utopia). For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him. Spenser.

as, to head a cask. To head off, to intercept; to get before; as, an officer heads off a thief who is escaping. -- To head up, to close, as a cask or barrel, by fitting a head to.

-- as, the plaintiff avers that the defendant said that he (innuendo the plaintiff) was a thief. Wharton.

A young fellow; formerly, a low thief. [Slang, Eng.]

, or born in wedlock. The doctrine of Divine Right, which has now come back to us, like a thief from transportation, under the alias of Legitimacy. Macaulay.

An accomplice; a "pal." [Obs.] There is no thief without a louk. Chaucer.

A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

a companion; an intimate associate. [Scot.] Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end. Tusser. Marrow squash (Bot.), a name given to several varieties of squash, esp. to the Boston marrow, an ovoid fruit, pointed at both ends, and with reddish yellow flesh, and to the vegeta…

or they. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Men moot give silver to the poure triars. Chaucer. A privy thief, men clepeth death. Chaucer.

One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc. [Obs.] Shak.

character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.

A thief. [Obs.]

A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. [Old Cant]

true; manifest to the world; evident; -- usually in an unfavorable sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice. Your goodness, Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious. Shak.

A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors. Shak.

A thief from without or abroad, taken within a lord's fee or liberty.

s. -- Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, -- used for cutting out panels, etc. -- Panel thief, one who robs in a panel house.

e who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker. "Pickers and stealers." Shak.

One who picks locks; a thief. "A picklock of secrets." Jer. Taylor.