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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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