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Embargo :: Embargo (v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

Fugitive :: Fugitive (n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.

Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.

Sundial :: Sundew (n.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort..

Detaining :: Detaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detai.

Detention :: Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

Detained :: Detained (imp. & p. p.) of Detai.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident..

Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.

Disherit :: Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance..

Detention :: Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Detainder :: Detainder (n.) A writ. See Detinue.

Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A person or thing detaine.

Excuss :: Excuss (v. t.) To seize and detain by law, as goods..

Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied..

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