arrest vb. (usu. in sense ‘to apprehend’ a person)
1.
to seize (property) by legal
warrant
Wiv. V. v. 121
“his horses are arrested
for it.”
2.
to take as security
(fig.)
Meas. II. iv. 135
“I do arrest your
words,”
LLL. II. i. 159.
