Hold () To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office.

Hold () To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.

Hold () To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.

Hold () To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a clergyman holds a service.

Hold () To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for.

Hold () To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.

Hold () To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge.

Hold () To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high.

Hold () In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence:

Hold () Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.

Hold () Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.

Hold () Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.

Hold () Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.

Hold () To restrain one's self; to refrain.

Hold () To derive right or title; -- generally with of.

Hold () The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay.

Hold () The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.

Hold () Binding power and influence.

Hold () Something that may be grasped; means of support.

Hold () A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.

Hold () A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.

Hold () A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona.

Holdback () Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.

Holdback () The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.

Holder () One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.

Holder () One who, or that which, holds.

Holder () One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.

Holder () The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.

Holder-forth () One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher.

Holdfast () Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

Holdfast () A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.

Holding () The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.

Holding () A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

Holding () That which holds, binds, or influences.

Holding () The burden or chorus of a song.

Hole () Whole.

Hole () A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.

Hole () An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.

Hole () To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.

Hole () To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.

Hole () To go or get into a hole.

Holethnic () Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.

Holethnos () A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.

Holibut () See Halibut.

Holidam () See Halidom.

Holiday () A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.

Holiday () A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.

Holiday () A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.

Holiday () Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.

Holiday () Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.

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