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ses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker. "Pickers and stealers." Shak.

One who steals purses or other articles from pockets. Bentley.

One who steals purses, or money from purses. Latimer. Shak.

To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft.

rom others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.

it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor.

To steal or purloin from the writings of another; to appropriate without due acknowledgement (the ideas or expressions of another).

A manstealer; a kidnaper. [Obs.]

Manstealing; kidnaping.

To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. Garth.

The act of devouring other creatures; ravage. Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, . . . lion in prey. Shak. Beast of prey, a carnivorous animal; one that feeds on the flesh of other animals.

To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]

Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency. "A proclivity to steal." Abp. Bramhall.

To steal; to rob; to filch. [Low] Johnson.

erson from doing a thing, and also the doing of the thing; as, the law prohibits men from stealing, or it prohibits stealing.

To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty. He prowls each place, still in new colors decked. Sir P. Sidney.

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.

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.

cle for money carried on the person; a wallet; a pocketbook; a portemonnaie. Chaucer. Who steals my purse steals trash. Shak.

To deprive feloniously of the tools used in one's employment (as by breaking or stealing them), for the purpose of annoying; as, to ratten a mechanic who works during a strike. [Trades-union Cant] J. McCarthy.