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

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

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

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

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..

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

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

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..

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

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

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

Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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