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Overlinger :: Overlinger (v. t.) To cause to linger; to detain too long.

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

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

Detain :: Detain (n.) 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..

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..

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

Delay :: Delay (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow..

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

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

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

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.

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

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..

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..

Detained :: Detained (imp. & p. p.) of Detai.

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

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

Recaption :: Recaption (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them..

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