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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.

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..

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..

Acupressure :: Acupressure (n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface..

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..

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

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Check :: Check (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.

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

Pause :: Pause (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole..

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