Word Meanings - FILCHINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By pilfering or petty stealing.

Related words: (words related to FILCHINGLY)

• PILFERY
  Petty theft. Sir T. North.
• STEALINGLY
  By stealing, or as by stealing, furtively, or by an invisible motion. Sir P. Sidney.
• STEALTH
  1. The act of stealing; theft. The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw. Spenser. 2. The thing stolen; stolen property. "Sluttish dens . . . serving to cover stealths." Sir W. Raleigh. 3. The bringing to
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• STEALTHLIKE
  Stealthy; sly. Wordsworth.
• PILFERING
  Thieving in a small way. Shak. -- n.
• STEALTHFUL
  Given to stealth; stealthy. -- Stealth"ful*ly, adv. -- Stealth"ful*ness, n.
• PILFERER
  One who pilfers; a petty thief.
• PILFER
  To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practice petty theft. (more info) Etym:
• STEALER
  The endmost plank of a strake which stops short of the stem or stern. (more info) 1. One who steals; a thief.
• STEALTHINESS
  The state, quality, or character of being stealthy; stealth.
• STEALING
  1. The act of taking feloniously the personal property of another without his consent and knowledge; theft; larceny. 2. That which is stolen; stolen property; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• PETTY
  Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small
• STEALTHILY
  In a stealthy manner.
• STEALTHY
  Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.
• STEAL
  A handle; a stale, or stele. And in his hand a huge poleax did bear. Whose steale was iron-studded but not long. Spenser.
• PETTYCHAPS
  Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler .
• SUBPERIOSTEAL
  Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation , a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.
• PERIOSTEAL
  Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.
• FIBROCHONDROSTEAL
  Partly fibrous, partly cartilaginous, and partly osseous. St. George Mivart.
• PAROSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to parostosis; as, parosteal ossification.
• ECTOSTEAL
  Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.
• OTOSTEAL
  An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.
• MANSTEALER
  A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings.