(tropical:) Listening by stealth, (K, TA,) like the thief. (TA.)
2.
(assumed tropical:) Defective, weak in make. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.)
3.
مُسْتَرِقُ القَوْلِ (tropical:) Weak in speech or saying. (A, TA.)
4.
مُسْتَرِقُ العُنُقِ (tropical:) Short in the neck; (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K, TA;) applied to a man; (Ibn-'Abbád, O, TA;) contracted therein. (A, TA.) [In the CK, المُسْرِقُ is erroneously put for المُسْتَرِقُ.]