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

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

Detain :: Detain (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..

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..

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

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

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..

Disherit :: Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance..

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

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

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

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

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

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

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

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

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.

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..

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

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