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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

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

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.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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