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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

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..

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.

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

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..

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

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

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

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..

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