Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for ROB'BER
ROB'BER, n.
- In law, one that takes goods or money from the person of another by force or menaces, and with a felonious intent. – Blackstone.
- In a looser sense, one who takes that to which he has no right; one who steals, plunders or strips by violence and wrong.
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