The seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.
A arresting something.
The condition of being stopped, standstill.
The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
A device to physically arrest motion.
The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
To stop the motion of (a person or animal). 14th-19th c.
To stay, remain. 14th-16th c.
To stop or slow (a process, course etc.). from 14th c.
To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody. from 14th c.
To catch the attention of. from 19th c.
