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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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