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rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish Milton. He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. Shak. To be executed for robbing a church. Shak.

A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.

To practice robbery on the seas;to wander about on the seas in piracy. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

One who practices robbery on the seas; a pirate. Yet Pompey the Great deserveth honor more justly for scouring the seas, and taking from the rovers 846 sail of ships. Holland.

Robbed; borrowed. Temple rubato. Etym: [It.] (Mus.) Borrowed time; -- a term applied to a style of performance in which some tones are held longer than their legitimate time, while others are proportionally curtailed.

A rover or footpad; a prowling robber. In those days of highwaymen and scourers. Macaulay.

One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder; a sea robber; a pirate; also, a piratical vessel.

ieving or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming.

s used as food. See Benne. Open Sesame, the magical command which opened the door of the robber's den in the Arabian Nights' tale of "The Forty Thieves;" hence, a magical password. -- Sesame grass. (Bot.) Same as Gama grass.

An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person. [R.] Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham. Shak.

th carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.]

Snobbery.

of the breath. Sobbing is the same thing [as sighing], stronger. Bacon. She sighed, she sobbed, and, furious with despair. She rent her garments, and she tore her hair. Dryden.

To practice plunder or robbery. Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil. Spenser.

One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.

The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The act or art of dealing in stocks; the business of a stockjobber.

Same as Swobber, 2.

mind in its earliest state, before receiving impressions from without; -- a term used by Hobbes, Locke, and others, in maintaining a theory opposed to the doctrine of innate ideas.

the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillæ. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.