ROB, n.
The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, mixed with honey or sugar to the consistence of a conserve.
ROB,
1. In law, to take from the person of another feloniously, forcibly and by putting him in fear as, to rob a passenger on the road.
2. To seize and carry from any thing by violence and with felonious intent as, to rob a coach to rob the mail.
3. To plunder to strip unlawfully as, to rob an orchard to rob a man of his just praise.
4. To take away by oppression or by violence.
Rob not the poor because he is poor. Proverbs 22 .
5. To take from to deprive. A large tree robs smaller plants near it of their nourishment.
6. In a loose sense, to steal to take privately without permission of the owner.
7. To withhold what is due. Malachi 3 .
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