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

Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

Cairn :: Cairn (n.) A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc..

Prisoner :: Prisoner (n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court..

Unattached :: Unattached (a.) Not taken or arrested.

Sparker :: Sparker (n.) A spark arrester.

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..

Hemostatic :: Hemostatic (a.) Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.

Arrested :: Arrested (imp. & p. p.) of Arres.

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) Any seizure by power, physical or moral..

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

Arrestee :: Arrestee (v.) The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

Arrestment :: Arrestment (n.) The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached..

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

Check :: Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check..

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

Privilege :: Privilege (v. t.) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest..

Fainting :: Fainting (n.) Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak..

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

Attach :: Attach (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4..

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