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Pilfery

Pilfery \Pil"fer*y\, n. Petty theft. [R.]
--Sir T. North.

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pilfery

n. petty theft

Usage examples of "pilfery".

What notable robberies, pilferies, murders, rapes, and stealings of young children, burning, breaking, and disfiguring their limbs to make them pitiful in the sight of the people, I need not to rehearse.