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Definition of arrest
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Arrest
(v. t.) The
taking
or
apprehending
of a
person
by
authority
of law; legal
restraint;
custody.
Also, a
decree,
mandate,
or
warrant..
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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..
Arrest
::
Arrest
(v. t.) The act of
stopping,
or
restraining
from
further
motion,
etc.;
stoppage;
hindrance;
restraint;
as, an
arrest
of
development..
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..
Bailiff
::
Bailiff
(n.) A
sheriff's
deputy,
appointed
to make
arrests,
collect
fines,
summon
juries,
etc..
Bail
::
Bail
(v./t.)
To set free, or
deliver
from
arrest,
or out of
custody,
on the
undertaking
of some other
person
or
persons
that he or they will be
responsible
for the
appearance,
at a
certain
day and
place,
of the
person
bailed..
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..
Arrest
::
Arrest
(v. t.) The
taking
or
apprehending
of a
person
by
authority
of law; legal
restraint;
custody.
Also, a
decree,
mandate,
or
warrant..
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..
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..
Apprehend
::
Apprehend
(v. t.)
Hence:
To take or seize (a
person)
by legal
process;
to
arrest;
as, to
apprehend
a
criminal..
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..
Hemostatic
::
Hemostatic
(a.)
Serving
to
arrest
hemorrhage;
styptic.
Imprison
::
Imprison
(v. t.) To put in
prison
or jail; To
arrest
and
detain
in
custody;
to
confine.
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..
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..
Arrest
::
Arrest
(v. t.) A
scurfiness
of the back part of the hind leg of a
horse;
-- also named
rat-tails.
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..
Check
::
Check (n.)
Whatever
arrests
progress,
or
limits
action;
an
obstacle,
guard,
restraint,
or
rebuff..
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..
Lockup
::
Lockup
(n.) A place where
persons
under
arrest
are
temporarily
locked
up; a
watchhouse.
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