Word Meanings - WASTOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A waster; a thief. Chaucer. Southey.

Related words: (words related to WASTOR)

• THIEF
  thiaf, OS. theof, thiof, D. dief, G. dieb, OHG. diob, Icel. , Sw. tjuf, Dan. tyv, Goth. , , and perhaps to Lith. tupeti to squat or 1. One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft. There came a privy thief, men clepeth
• WASTER
  1. One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal. He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster. Prov. xviii. 9. Sconces are great wasters
• THIEFLY
  Like a thief; thievish; thievishly. Chaucer.
• SEA THIEF
  A pirate. Drayton.
• WATER THIEF
  A pirate. Shak.
• CANDLEWASTER
  One who consumes candles by being up late for study or dissipation. A bookworm, a candlewaster. B. Jonson.