THIEF, noun plural thieves.
1. One who secretly, unlawfully and feloniously takes the goods or personal property of another. The thief takes the property of another privately; the robber by open force.
2. One who takes the property of another wrongfully, either secretly or by violence. Job 30:5.
3. One who seduces by false doctrine. John 10:1.
4. One who makes it his business to cheat and defraud; as a den of thieves. Matthew 21:1.
5. An excrescence in the snuff of a candle.