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Receiver :: Receiver (n.) A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other acts necessary to winding up its affairs, in certain cases..

Ploughman :: Ploughman (n.) One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman..

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well..

Poise :: Poise (n.) To hold or place in equilibrium or equiponderance.

Clinch :: Clinch (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.

Monitor :: Monitor (n.) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting..

Closet :: Closet (n.) A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc..

Teacupful :: Teacupful (n.) As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.

Clasp :: Clasp (n.) An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc..

Garnishee :: Garnishee (n.) One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money..

Overhold :: Overhold (v. t.) To hold or value too highly; to estimate at too dear a rate.

Homaloidal :: Homaloidal (a.) Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true..

Vice :: Vice (v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice..

Spectator :: Spectator (n.) One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show..

Evangelical :: Evangelical (a.) Earnest for the truth taught in the gospel; strict in interpreting Christian doctrine; preeminetly orthodox; -- technically applied to that party in the Church of England, and in the Protestant Episcopal Church, which holds the doctrine of Justification by Faith alone; the Low Church party. The term is also applied to other religion bodies not regarded as orthodox..

Disseizin :: Disseizin (n.) The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold.

Whipper :: Whipper (n.) One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.

Footed :: Footed (a.) Having a foothold; established.

Serve :: Serve (v. i.) To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc..

Family :: Family (v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders..

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