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Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident..

Crestless :: Crestless (a.) Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth.

Privy :: Privy (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party..

Unmew :: Unmew (v. t.) To release from confinement or restraint.

Bill :: Bill (n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document..

Slavism :: Slavism (n.) The common feeling and interest of the Slavonic race.

Impact :: Impact (n.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

Pivot :: Pivot (n.) The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch..

Camp :: Camp (v. t.) To afford rest or lodging for, as an army or travelers..

Regarder :: Regarder (n.) An officer appointed to supervise the forest.

Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To deduct from; to make a discount from, as interest due, or customs duties..

Respite :: Respite (n.) Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay..

Teleutospore :: Teleutospore (n.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore..

Suppressible :: Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage..

Limbus :: Limbus (n.) Hence: Any real or imaginary place of restraint or confinement; a prison; as, to put a man in limbo..

Rest :: Rest (v. t.) To arrest.

Liana :: Liana (n.) A luxuriant woody plant, climbing high trees and having ropelike stems. The grapevine often has the habit of a liane. Lianes are abundant in the forests of the Amazon region..

Constraint :: Constraint (n.) The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity..

Saw-set :: Saw-set (n.) An instrument used to set or turn the teeth of a saw a little sidewise, that they may make a kerf somewhat wider than the thickness of the blade, to prevent friction; -- called also saw-wrest..

Respiration :: Respiration (n.) Relief from toil or suffering: rest.

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