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

Designate :: Designate (v. t.) To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested..

Free :: Free (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.

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.) To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.

Bailiff :: Bailiff (n.) A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc..

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..

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..

Warrant :: Warrant (n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.

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..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) Any seizure by power, physical or moral..

Arrestation :: Arrestation (n.) Arrest.

Check :: Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check..

Rest :: Rest (v. t.) To arrest.

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..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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