arrestation (are stash on)

[= F. arrest a tion, The arrestation of the English residing in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams, Letters on France, I. 1. arrestee (a-rest-ē'), n. [ Scots law , the person in whose hands an arrestment is laid. arrester, arrestor (a-res'tèr, -tor), n. [ME. a rester ; arrest1 +-er1, -or. Cf. ML. arrest at or .] 1. One who or that which arrests.-2. In Scots law , the person at whose instance an arrest is made. See arrest , n., 7. [ Arrestor is the form usual in legal documents.] arrestive (a-res'tiv), a . [=OF. arrest if ; rest1 + -ive .] 1. Serving or tending to arrest. -2. In gram ., marking an arrest, restriction, arrhizous or qualification of thought: applied to conjunctions like but, yet, however, etc. Bain, Eng. Grammar.