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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Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief..
Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..
Caption :: Caption (n.) The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process.
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention..
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
Dashy :: Dashy (a.) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
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..
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
Rest :: Rest (v. t.) To arrest.
Watchhouse :: Watchhouse (n.) A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.
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..
Hemostatic :: Hemostatic (a.) Serving to arrest hemorrhage; styptic.
Arrestee :: Arrestee (v.) The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.
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..
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..
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..
Free :: Free (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
Arresting :: Arresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arres.
Right :: Right (a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal..
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