Stealth
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Stealth - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
STEALTH, n. stelth.
1. The act of stealing; theft.
The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed on him by such an outlaw.
2. The thing stolen; as cabins that are dens to cover stealth. [Not in use.]
3. Secret act; clandestine practice; means unperceived employed to gain an object; way or manner not perceived; used in a good or bad sense.
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
The monarch blinded with desire of wealth, with steel invades the brothers life by stealth.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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