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Word Meanings - UPCAUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." Cowper.

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  • COWPER'S GLANDS
    Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
  • UPCAUGHT
    Seized or caught up. " She bears upcaught a mariner away." Cowper.
  • CAUGHT
    f Catch.
  • SEIZURE
    1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make
  • SEIZIN
    Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means
  • SEIZER
    One who, or that which, seizes.
  • MARINERSHIP
    Seamanship. Udalt.
  • MARINER
    One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor. Chaucer. Mariner's compass. See under Compass.
  • SEIZING
    1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly. The operation of fastening together or lashing. The cord or lashing used for such fastening.
  • SEIZOR
    One who seizes, or takes possession.
  • SEIZE
    To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods. 5. To fasten; to fix. As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. Spenser. 6. To grap with
  • SEIZABLE
    That may be seized.
  • BEARSKIN
    1. The skin of a bear. 2. A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats. 3. A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.
  • POST-DISSEIZOR
    A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.
  • DISSEIZORESS
    A woman disseizes.
  • REDISSEIZE
    To disseize anew, or a second time.
  • DISSEIZOR
    One who wrongfully disseizes, or puts another out of possession of a freehold. Blackstone.
  • DISSEIZE
    To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully ; -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize
  • POST-DISSEIZIN
    A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished. Burrill. Tomlins.
  • REDISSEIZOR
    One who redisseizes.
  • DISSEIZEE
    A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor.
  • REDISSEIZIN
    A disseizin by one who once before was adjudged to have dassezed the same person of the same lands, etc.; also, a writ which lay in such a case. Blackstone.

 

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