distress is a Noun
[1] Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends. Not fearing death nor shrinking for distress. Shak.
[2] That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery. Affliction`s sons are brothers in distress. Burns.
[3] A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.
[4] The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.
[5] The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. Bouvier. Kent. Burrill. If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle. Spenser. The distress thus taken must be proportioned to the thing distrained for. Blackstone. Abuse of distress. (Law) See under Abuse.
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