† detaindern.
Obsolete.
= detainer n.2
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detention1552
detinue1570
forcible detainer1618
detainer1619
detainure1641
detainder1672
detaining1795
1672 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 35 Ye deteinder of moneys by ye Farmers upon pretence of defalcations.
1701 T. Beverley Grand Apoc. Question 32 There is also..in it the Detaindor of a Disease, a Catochus, and a Catoche, a Dead Sleep, or Insensibility with Pungency, or Vexation.
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n.1672- to see in his her true colours
- to see in his true colours
- to see in sight
- to see into
- to see life
- to see little of
- to see masks
- to see much of
- to see nothing of
- to see of
- to see off
- to see off the new ball
- to see on
- to see one somethinged first
- to see one's way
- to see one's way clear to
- to see one's way to
- to see or have seen a wolf
- to see out
- to see out for
- to see over
- to see reason
- to see red
- to see round
- to see sense