A lopping off; a diminution; abatement; deficit. Specifically: Reduction of a claim by deducting a counterclaim; set- off.
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To go up; to ascend.
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The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.
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of Steal
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The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added t…
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The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same;…
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The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.
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of Thieve
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The embezzlement of goods on shipboard.
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A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
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The fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been intrusted; as, the embezzlement by a clerk of his employer's; embezzlement o…
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A wrong application.
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Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
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The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for manag…
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