Noah Webster
Detain
DETAIN, verb transitive [Latin , to hold. See Tenant.]
1. To keep back or from; to withhold; to keep what belongs to another. detain not the wages of the hireling.
2. To keep or restrain from proceeding, either going or coming; to stay or stop. We were detained by the rain.
Let us detain thee, till we have made ready a kid. Judges 13:15.
3. To hold in custody.