Hypertext Webster Gateway: "eavesdropping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Eavesdropping \Eaves"drop`ping\, n. (Law)
The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places
where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly
listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The
offense is indictable at common law. --Wharton.
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