in military affairs, a certain number of soldiers drawn out from several regiments or companies equally, to be employed as the general thinks proper, whether on an attack, at a siege, or in parties to scour the country.

DETOINITION (from detineo, "I detain") the possession or holding of lands, or the like, from some other claimant. The word is chiefly used in an ill sense, for an unjust withholding, &c.

DETOINTS, in a clock, are those stops which, by being lifted up or let fall down, lock and unlock the clock in striking.

DETOINT-Wheel, or Hoop-Wheel, in a clock, that wheel which has a hoop almost round it, wherein there is a vacancy, at which the clock locks.