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Capture :: Capture (n.) The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal..

Vesture :: Vesture (v. t.) Seizin; possession.

Raptorial :: Raptorial (a.) Adapted for seizing prey; -- said of the legs, claws, etc., of insects, birds, and other animals..

Seizing :: Seizing (n.) The cord or lashing used for such fastening.

Possession :: Possession (n.) The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful..

Seizin :: Seizin (n.) Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means merely ownership..

Grasping :: Grasping (a.) Seizing; embracing; catching.

Seizing :: Seizing (n.) The operation of fastening together or lashing.

Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped..

Impressment :: Impressment (n.) The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors..

Seizing :: Seizing (n.) The act of taking or grasping suddenly.

Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension..

Arraign :: Arraign (v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin..

Disseize :: Disseize (v. t.) To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold..

Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force.

Incorporeal :: Incorporeal (a.) Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal.

Nip :: Nip (n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice..

Rapine :: Rapine (n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of things by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.

Reseizure :: Reseizure (n.) A second seizure; the act of seizing again.

Seizing :: Seizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Seiz.

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