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Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators..

Bag :: Bag (v. t.) To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game..

Retake :: Retake (v. t.) To take from a captor; to recapture; as, to retake a ship or prisoners..

Force :: Force (n.) To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress..

Take :: Take (n.) That which is taken; especially, the quantity of fish captured at one haul or catch..

Lynch :: Lynch (v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law..

Ant-lion :: Ant-lion (n.) A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, etc. The common American species is Myrmeleon obsoletus, the European is M. formicarius..

Recaptor :: Recaptor (n.) One who recaptures; one who takes a prize which had been previously taken.

Tangle :: Tangle (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea..

Reprise :: Reprise (n.) A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.

Check :: Check (n.) A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so menaced is said to be in check, and must be made safe at the next move..

Recapture :: Recapture (v. t.) To capture again; to retake.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner, or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint, penalty, or forfeit..

Capture :: Capture (n.) The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal..

Carry :: Carry (v. t.) To get possession of by force; to capture.

Capture :: Capture (n.) The thing taken by force, surprise, or stratagem; a prize; prey..

Huff :: Huff (v. t.) To remove from the board (the piece which could have captured an opposing piece). See Huff, v. i., 3..

Citigradae :: Citigradae (n. pl.) A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider..

Piscicapture :: Piscicapture (n.) Capture of fishes, as by angling..

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