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p. p. of Steal.

A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously. There's a certain buzz Of a stolen marriage. Massinger.

maker of counterfeit money. Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. Macaulay.

-- as from taking judicial oaths, rendering military service, etc. -- Conscience money, stolen or wrongfully acquired money that is voluntarily restored to the rightful possessor. Such money paid into the United States treasury by unknown debtors is called the Conscience fund. -- Court of Conscience, a court establi…

nd elf shot. -- Elf child, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.

ant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.

A receiver of stolen goods, or a place where they are received. [Slang] Mayhew.

Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. Prior. A hasty and furtive ceremony. Hallam.

; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.

ribed or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.

nd Petit larceny are distinctions having reference to the nature or value of the property stolen. They are abolished in England. -- Mixed, or Compound, larceny, that which, under statute, includes in it the aggravation of a taking from a building or the person. -- Simple larceny, that which is not accompanied with an…

A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

used Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the bl…

ankind in knowledge, and to have formed men of clay to whom he gave life by means of fire stolen from heaven. Jupiter, being angry at this, sent Mercury to bind Prometheus to Mount Caucasus, where a vulture preyed upon his liver.

To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.

One who takes or buys stolen goods from a thief, knowing them to be stolen. Blackstone.

rance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships. The pearis were split; Some lost, some stolen, some as relics kept. Tennyson.

The receiving of stolen goods, or harboring an outlaw. Jamieson.

One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or criminal.

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.