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Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

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..

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

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

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

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

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..

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

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.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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