klept-, klepto-, -kleptic; clepto-, clept-, -clepty, -cleptic +

1. A book thief or someone who steals books.
2. Besides the direct biblioklept there is the indirect thief who borrows and never returns books to their proper owners (including a library).

Here is a news article about a bibliokleptomaniac.

1. A morbid tendency to steal books.
2. A compulsion to steal books.
3. A book thief who is regarded as someone who has a mental problem.
4. An uncontrollable or compulsive desire to steal and to possess books.

A "private collector" acquires additional books for his personal library.

See another bibliokleptomaniac who was in the news.

Decomposition of complex organic materials by microorganisms.

It occurs in self-purification of water bodies and in activated sludge wastewater treatment.

A "sand" or "hour glass" that measures the trickling flow of sand. It is defined by some to mean: an "hourglass" that measures a period of time other than an hour.

The sand glass was one of the earliest methods by which man measured time. The invention of the hourglass is credited to a monk by the name of Luitprand from Chartres, France; sometime around the turn of 8th century.

Charlemagne is said to have had one that was so large that it had to be turned just once every twelve hours. He had divisions marked on the outside in order to measure the passage of the hours. Now, when people speak of the "sands of time passing", you should have a better idea of what is behind that statement.

1. An ancient device that measured time by marking the regulated flow of water through a small opening. Also called water glass.
2. The word is compounded with a Greek stem that means "to steal", and "water"; with the allusion that the water is flowing stealthily (flowing secretly) from it.

It is said that clepsydras were used in Egypt c.2000 BC; from Egypt they were introduced into Greece and later from there into Rome.

1. An association whereby one species regularly forages upon the food stores of another species, but otherwise does not associate with it.
2. Stealing, or robbing, food from other life species.
3. A form of symbiosis based on theft, best known in ants in which one species will systematically steal the collected food of another laboring species.

1. A hidden or unrecognized parasite.
2. An animal that obtains its food mainly by scavenging the food supplies of another species, especially one with which it habitually lives in close proximity.

1. A form of parasitism found in some social organisms in which a member of one species steals the prey or food stores of another species to feed its own progeny.
2. A relationship between two parasitic species; such as, with some parasitoid wasps, whereby the female of one species regularly usurps the prey of the other species for purposes of rearing her own offspring.

Dog-stealing, a dog-stealer.

Thievish; strong tendencies to steal.

Related to or consisting of stealing.

A slang term for "kleptomaniac".

1. A government characterized by rampant greed and corruption.
2. A ruling body or order of thieves; a government run by thieves; a nation ruled by this kind of government.

A behavior pattern in which males from outside a group, or lacking in status within the group, attempt to mate with females from the group, often by means of some deceptive behavior.

A morbid desire, associated with fetishism, to achieve sexual gratification through theft.