Definition of Stealth

Pronunciation: stĕlth
n.1.The act of stealing; theft.
The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw.
- Spenser.
2.The thing stolen; stolen property.
3.The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; - in either a good or a bad sense.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
- Pope.
The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth,
With steel invades the brother's life by stealth.
- Dryden.
I told him of your stealth unto this wood.
- Shak.


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