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Detainder :: Detainder (n.) A writ. See Detinue.

Replevin :: Replevin (n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention..

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..

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

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) One who detains.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.

Sundial :: Sundew (n.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort..

Intransitive :: Intransitive (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained.

Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain.

Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer..

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law..

Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A person or thing detaine.

Fugitive :: Fugitive (n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.

Detaining :: Detaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detai.

Detention :: Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.

Embargo :: Embargo (v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods..

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

Detention :: Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Excuss :: Excuss (v. t.) To seize and detain by law, as goods..

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