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Arrestive :: Arrestive (a.) Tending to arrest.

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

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..

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

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..

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

Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal..

Hysterogenic :: Hysterogenic (a.) Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria..

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..

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

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..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. i.) To tarry; to rest.

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

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

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..

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

Pause :: Pause (n.) In speaking or reading aloud, a brief arrest or suspension of voice, to indicate the limits and relations of sentences and their parts..

Arrester :: Arrester (n.) The person at whose suit an arrestment is made.

Point :: Point (n.) That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc..

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