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

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

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

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

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

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

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

Recaption :: Recaption (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them..

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..

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

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..

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

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 hold or keep in custody.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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