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Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

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

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

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