thief

noun

1. One who carries out a theft.

   “water-thieves and land-thieves”

2. One who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence.

   “Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee.”

3. (obsolete)A waster in the snuff of a candle.

   “But hear you, my Worthy Brethren: do not you, where you see a thief in the candle, call presently for an extinguisher[…]”