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

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..

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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.

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