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

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

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

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

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..

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.

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

Delay :: Delay (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow..

Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer..

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

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law..

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

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

Overlinger :: Overlinger (v. t.) To cause to linger; to detain too long.

Intransitive :: Intransitive (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained.

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..

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

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

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..

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) One who detains.

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