To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain.
To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age.
To cause strain or anxiety to someone.
A cause of such discomfort.
The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.
Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature.
Serious danger.
A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt.
An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt.
To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music.
Of a brownish grey colour.
A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
A mound or small hill.
A brownish grey colour.
An urgent request or demand of payment.
A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.