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Warrant :: Warrant (n.) A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to the administration of justice..

Atrophied :: Atrophied (p. a.) Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary..

Statable :: Stasis (n.) A slackening or arrest of the blood current in the vessels, due not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation..

Raid :: Raid (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury..

Rest :: Rest (v. t.) To arrest.

Stopped :: Stoppage (n.) The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce..

Obstruction :: Obstruction (n.) The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.

Check :: Check (n.) A condition of interrupted or impeded progress; arrest; stop; delay; as, to hold an enemy in check..

Designate :: Designate (v. t.) To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested..

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

Fainting :: Fainting (n.) Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. i.) To tarry; to rest.

Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

Faller :: Faller (n.) A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks..

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime..

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

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..

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

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; -- also named rat-tails.

Indorse :: Indorse (v. t.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a /ote, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.)..

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