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Usurp :: Usurp (v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him..

Garroter :: Garroter (n.) One who seizes a person by the throat from behind, with a view to strangle and rob him..

Extent :: Extent (n.) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment..

Scramble :: Scramble (v. i.) To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.

Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate..

Diligence :: Diligence (n.) Process by which persons, lands, or effects are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance of witnesses or the production of writings..

Reseize :: Reseize (v. t.) To seize again, or a second time..

Arraught :: Arraught () Obtained; seized.

Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.

Betake :: Betake (v. t.) To take or seize.

Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

Clutch :: Clutch (n.) To seize, clasp, or gripe with the hand, hands, or claws; -- often figuratively; as, to clutch power..

Disseizee :: Disseizee (n.) A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor..

Snap :: Snap (n.) To bite or seize suddenly, especially with the teeth..

Ravish :: Ravish (v. t.) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

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

Stag-evil :: Stage-struck (a.) Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.

Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.

Distress :: Distress (n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

Saltigrade :: Saltigrade (n.) One of the Saltigradae, a tribe of spiders which leap to seize their prey..

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