 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
purloin
verb: make off with belongings of others [syn: {pilfer}, {cabbage},
{pinch}, {abstract}, {snarf}, {swipe}, {hook}, {sneak},
{filch}, {nobble}, {lift}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purloin \Pur*loin"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Purloined}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Purloining}.] [OF. purloignier, porloignier, to
retard, delay; pur, por, pour, for (L. pro) + loin far, far
off (L. longe). See {Prolong}, and cf. {Eloign}.]
To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to
take by theft; to filch.
Had from his wakeful custody purloined
The guarded gold. --Milton.
when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin ?
--Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Purloin \Pur*loin"\, verb (used without an object)
To practice theft; to steal. --Titus ii. 10.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "purloin":
abstract, and, annex, appropriate, bag, boost, borrow, cabbage,
cop, crib, defraud, embezzle, extort, filch, hook, lift,
make off with, nip, palm, pilfer, pinch, poach, run away with,
rustle, scrounge, shoplift, snare, snatch, snitch, steal, swindle,
swipe, take, thieve, walk off with
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