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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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.

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

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..

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