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Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to consume; to swallow up; to use up; to waste; to annihilate..

Collar :: Collar (v. t.) To seize by the collar.

Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal..

Redisseizor :: Redisseizor (n.) One who redisseizes.

Booty :: Booty (n.) That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery, especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage..

Distress :: Distress (n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.

Seize :: Seize (v. t.) To fasten; to fix.

Pounce :: Pounce (v. i.) To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively..

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

Dispossess :: Dispossess (v. t.) To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown..

Garroter :: Garroter (n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him..

Confiscate :: Confiscate (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

Catch :: Catch (n.) The posture of seizing; a state of preparation to lay hold of, or of watching he opportunity to seize; as, to lie on the catch..

Vagantes :: Vagantes (p. pl.) A tribe of spiders, comprising some of those which take their prey in a web, but which also frequently run with agility, and chase and seize their prey..

Bite :: Bite (v. i.) To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?.

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

Garrote :: Garrote (v. t.) To strangle with the garrote; hence, to seize by the throat, from behind, with a view to strangle and rob..

Snatch :: Snatch (n.) A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly..

Hent :: Hent (v. t.) To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.

Prehend :: Prehend (v. t.) To lay hold of; to seize.

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