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Arresting :: Arresting (a.) Striking; attracting attention; impressive.

Ergot :: Ergot (n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding..

Designate :: Designate (v. t.) To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.

Strangulated :: Strangulated (a.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia..

Raid :: Raid (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury..

Arrestment :: Arrestment (n.) A stoppage or check.

Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors..

Caption :: Caption (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.

Stopped :: Stoppage (n.) The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce..

Suppressible :: Suppress (v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage..

Jerk :: "Jerk (v. t.) To give a quick and suddenly arrested thrust, push, pull, or twist, to; to yerk; as, to jerk one with the elbow; to jerk a coat off..

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

Lockup :: Lockup (n.) A place where persons under arrest are temporarily locked up; a watchhouse.

Thirst :: Thirst (n.) A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excitement, etc.) which arrests the secretion of the pharyngeal mucous membrane; hence, the condition producing this sensation..

Stop :: Stop (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought..

Arrester :: Arrester (n.) One who arrests.

Protection :: Protection (n.) A writing that protects or secures from molestation or arrest; a pass; a safe-conduct; a passport.

Free :: Free (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.

Right :: Right (a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal..

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