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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..

Indorse :: Indorse (v. t.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.)..

Arrestation :: Arrestation (n.) Arrest.

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..

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..

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

Tampon :: Tampon (n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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..

Jerk :: "Jerk (v. t.) To throw with a quick and suddenly arrested motion of the hand; as, to jerk a stone..

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..

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

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

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 (n.) A medicine or application to arrest hemorrhage.

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..

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