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To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest. Philips.

Arrest. [R.] The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.

The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

One who arrests.

Striking; attracting attention; impressive. This most solemn and arresting occurrence. J. H. Newman.

Tending to arrest. McCosh.

The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface. Simpson.

The twisting of an artery with a needle to arrest hemorrhage.

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

The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

An arrest; a legal seizure.

Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to…

To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.

A sheriff's deputy, appointed to make arrests, collect fines, summon juries, etc.

A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. C. Kingsley. Kane.

or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias.

The act of taking or arresting a person by judicial process. [R.] Bouvier.