Associations to the word «Larceny»

Wiktionary

LARCENY, noun. (legal) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
LARCENY, noun. (legal) A larcenous act attributable to an individual.

Dictionary definition

LARCENY, noun. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats