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

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

Surprise :: Surprise (n.) To come or fall suddenly and unexpectedly; to take unawares; to seize or capture by unexpected attack.

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

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..

Recapture :: Recapture (n.) The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor..

Prize :: Prize (n.) That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power..

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

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..

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

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..

Spattling-poppy :: Spattling-poppy (n.) A kind of catchfly (Silene inflata) which is sometimes frothy from the action of captured insects.

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..

Hook :: Hook (v. t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture, or hold, as with a hook, esp. with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout..

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

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..

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..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom..

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

Sea Serpent :: Sea serpent () A large marine animal of unknown nature, often reported to have been seen at sea, but never yet captured..

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