With'er-nam, n.

n. [A-S. wiðernám, from wiðer, against, and nám, a seizure, from nīman, to take.] (Law.) A second or reciprocal writ or distress in lieu of a first distress which has been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal;—the name of a writ used in connection with the action of replevin (sometimes called a writ of reprisal), which issues to a defendant in replevin when he has obtained judgment for a return of the chattels replevied, and fails to obtain them on the writ of return. Blackstone.