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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or an instance of stealing; larceny.
  2. n. Obsolete Something stolen.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of stealing; in law, larceny (which see): compare also robbery.
  2. n. Something stolen; a loss by stealing.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of stealing property.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
  2. n. rare The thing stolen.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the act of taking something from someone unlawfully

Etymologies

  1. Old English þȳft, þēoft, earlier þīefþ, þēofþ, from Proto-Germanic *þiubiþō, from *þeubaz (“thief”). Cognate with Old Norse þeoft, þeofð and (obsolete) Dutch diefte. Compare thief, -th. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English thīefth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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