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A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

Confinement; restraint; custody. The archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court. Hallam.

A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents.

A group of ganoid fishes, including the living genera Ceratodus and Lepidosiren, which present the closest approximation to the Amphibia. The air bladder acts as a lung, and the nostrils open inside the mouth. See Ceratodus, and Illustration in Appendix.

The act of distilling spirits. [R.] Todd.

A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke,

Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak. "Durance vile." Burns. In durance, exile, Bedlam or the mint. Pope.

Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and ectoderm; as, the "ectental line" or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum. C. S. Minot.

The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm.

a. The electrical eel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minute nematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.

See Octodecimo.

The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Releasing from slavery or custody. Shak.

The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. See Blastoderm, Delamination.

The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

To rip open; todisembowel. [Obs.] Sir. T. Brown.

A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.

Eager to discover or learn; curious. [Obs.] Todd. -- Ex*quis"i*tive*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or the unlawful detaining of a person in custody. -- False keel (Naut.), the timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the shio's lateral resistance. -- False key, a picklock. -- False leg. (Zoöl.) See Proleg. -- False membrane (Med.…

A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.