 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
stealth
noun: avoiding detection by moving carefully [syn: {stealing}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Stealth \Stealth\ (st[e^]lth), noun [OE. stal[thorn]e. See
{Steal}, verb (used with an object)]
1. The act of stealing; theft. [Obs.]
The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed
upon him by such an outlaw. --Spenser.
2. The thing stolen; stolen property. [Obs.] ''Sluttish dens
. . . serving to cover stealths.'' --Sir W. Raleigh.
3. The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed
manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or
action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
--Pope.
The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth,
With steel invades the brother's life by stealth.
--Dryden.
I told him of your stealth unto this wood. --Shak.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "stealth":
Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness,
cageyness, callidity, canniness, clandestine behavior,
clandestineness, clandestinity, cleverness, covertness, craft,
craftiness, cunning, cunningness, fine Italian hand, finesse,
foxiness, furtiveness, gamesmanship, guile, ingeniousness,
insidiousness, inventiveness, one-upmanship, prowl, prowling,
readiness, resourcefulness, satanic cunning, secrecy, sharpness,
shiftiness, shrewdness, slinkiness, slipperiness, slyness,
sneakiness, sophistry, stalking, stealthiness, subtilty,
subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, surreptitiousness, trickiness,
underground activity, underhand dealing, underhandedness, wariness,
wiles, wiliness, wit
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