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Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To seize after pursuing; to arrest; as, to catch a thief..

Pause :: Pause (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses..

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..

Arrester :: Arrester (n.) One who arrests.

Halt :: Halt (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) Arrest of development, or degeneration of any organ, or of the body as a whole..

Arrestation :: Arrestation (n.) Arrest.

Hysterogenic :: Hysterogenic (a.) Producing hysteria; as, the hysterogenicpressure points on the surface of the body, pressure upon which is said both to produce and arrest an attack of hysteria..

Dashy :: Dashy (a.) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.

Arret :: Arret (n.) An arrest; a legal seizure.

Right :: Right (a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal..

Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) Hence: To take or seize (a person) by legal process; to arrest; as, to apprehend a criminal..

Arresting :: Arresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Arres.

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

Check :: Check (n.) Whatever arrests progress, or limits action; an obstacle, guard, restraint, or rebuff..

Arrested :: Arrested (imp. & p. p.) of Arres.

Free :: Free (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses..

Arrestment :: Arrestment (n.) A stoppage or check.

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