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Definition of detain
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Detain
(v. t.) To hold or keep in
custody.
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Detention
::
Detention
(n.) The act of
detaining
or
keeping
back; a
withholding.
Detainer
::
Detainer
(n.) A writ
authorizing
the
keeper
of a
prison
to
continue
to keep a
person
in
custody.
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..
Detaining
::
Detaining
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of
Detai.
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..
Detained
::
Detained
(imp. & p. p.) of
Detai.
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..
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.
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.
Fugitive
::
Fugitive
(n.)
Something
hard to be
caught
or
detained.
Detainder
::
Detainder
(n.) A writ. See
Detinue.
Detinue
::
Detinue
(n.) A form of
action
for the
recovery
of a
personal
chattel
wrongfully
detained.
Detain
::
Detain
(v. t.) To
restrain
from
proceeding;
to stay or stop; to
delay;
as, we were
detained
by an
accident..
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..
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..
Excuss
::
Excuss
(v. t.) To seize and
detain
by law, as
goods..
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..
Detention
::
Detention
(n.) The state of being
detained
(stopped
or
hindered);
delay from
necessity.
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