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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.

One who purloins. Swift.

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.

The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. [Modern]

To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbuthnot.

To infect or pollute; to corrupt. Addison. A tithe purloined canker the whole estate. Herbert.

A small theft; anything purloined;; a plagiaris [Colloq.] The Latin version technically called a crib. Ld. Lytton. Occasional perusal of the Pagan writers, assisted by a crib. Wilkie Collins.

Purloining; stealing; plagiarizing. [Colloq.]

To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin. Shak.

One who plagiarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.

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

One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist. Dryden.