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Tourniquet :: Tourniquet (n.) An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.

Arresting :: Arresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arres.

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

Cardioinhibitory :: Cardioinhibitory (a.) Checking or arresting the heart's action.

Arrestation :: Arrestation (n.) Arrest.

Sergeant :: Sergeant (n.) Formerly, in England, an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred; also, an officer whose duty was to attend on the king, and on the lord high steward in court, to arrest traitors and other offenders. He is now called sergeant-at-arms, and two of these officers, by allowance of the sovereign, attend on the houses of Parliament (one for each house) to execute their commands, and another attends the Court Chancery..

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

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime..

Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped..

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

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..

Obstruction :: Obstruction (n.) The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.

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..

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood..

Halt :: Halt (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress..

Capias :: Capias (n.) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias..

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

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

Arret :: Arret (n.) An arrest; a legal seizure.

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

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