Rob

rob, v.t. to take away from by force or theft: to plunder: to steal: to deprive: ( B. ) to withhold what is due.— v.i. to commit robbery:— pr.p. rob′bing; pa.t. and pa.p. robbed.— ns. Rob′ber , one who robs; Rob′ber-coun′cil ( Latrocinium Ephesinum ), the council which met at Ephesus in August 449, under the presidency of Dioscurus, whose horde of fanatical monks by sheer violence carried the restoration of Eutyches—its resolutions were annulled at Chalcedon in 451; Rob′ber-crab , a hermit-crab; Rob′ber-fly , any dipterous insect of the family Asilidæ ; Rob′ber-gull , the skua; Rob′bery , theft from the person, aggravated by violence or intimidation: plundering.— Robbing Peter to pay Paul , paying and repaying out of the same fund: taking what is due to one to pay another. [O. Fr. rober —Old High Ger. roubōn , Ger. rauben .]