Thief

Definition of Thief

Pronunciation: thēf
n.1.One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
There came a privy thief, men clepeth death.
- Chaucer.
Where thieves break through and steal.
- Matt. vi. 19.
2.A waster in the snuff of a candle.
Thief catcher
Same as Thief taker.
Thief leader
one who leads or takes away a thief.
Thief taker
one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice.
- L'Estrange.
Thief tube
a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask.
Thieves' vinegar
a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London.
Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night.
- Shak.
Some roving robber calling to his fellows.
- Milton.

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