Word Meanings - PILFERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n.

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• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• THIEVE
  To practice theft; to steal. (more info) Etym:
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• THIEVISH
  1. Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie. 2. Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret. Time's thievish progress to eternity. Shak. 3. Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest;
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• THIEVERY
  1. The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. South. 2. That which is stolen. Shak.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• BAPTISMALLY
  In a baptismal manner.