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Lodgment :: Lodgment (v.) The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment..

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..

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..

Reduce :: Reduce (n.) To bring to terms; to humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture; as, to reduce a province or a fort..

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..

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..

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

Land :: Land (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish..

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..

Captivate :: Captivate (v. t.) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

Net :: Net (v. t.) To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile.

Zion :: Zion (n.) A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors..

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

Pelican :: Pelican (n.) Any large webfooted bird of the genus Pelecanus, of which about a dozen species are known. They have an enormous bill, to the lower edge of which is attached a pouch in which captured fishes are temporarily stored..

Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.

Take :: Take (v. t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like..

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..

Overtake :: Overtake (v. t.) To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.

Capture :: Capture (v. t.) To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort..

Pregnable :: Pregnable (a.) Capable of being entered, taken, or captured; expugnable; as, a pregnable fort..

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