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Convey

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A polite term for steal. Thieves are, by a similar euphemism, called conveyers. (Latin, con-veho, to carry away.)

“Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a flco for the phrase.”—Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 3.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.