Definition of hold

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Hold (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain..

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Keeper :: Keeper (n.) One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything..
Combine :: Combine (v. t.) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
Enthrall :: Enthrall (v. t.) To hold in thrall; to enslave. See Inthrall.
Beholden :: Beholden (p. p.) of Behol.
Snuffers :: Snuffers (n. pl.) An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.
Holding :: Holding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hol.
Trainbearer :: Trainbearer (n.) One who holds up a train, as of a robe..
Low-churchman :: Low-churchman (n.) One who holds low-church principles.
Ditheist :: Ditheist (n.) One who holds the doctrine of ditheism; a dualist.
Shareholder :: Shareholder (n.) One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property.
Lease :: Lease (v. t.) To hold under a lease; to take lease of; as, a tenant leases his land from the owner..
Neonomian :: Neonomian (n.) One who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law.
Superfine :: Superficies (n.) A real right consisting of a grant by a landed proprietor of a piece of ground, bearing a strong resemblance to the long building leases granted by landholders in England, in consideration of a rent, and under reservation of the ownership of the soil..
Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..
Omnispective :: Omnispective (a.) Beholding everything; capable of seeing all things; all-seeing.
Udalman :: Udalman (n.) In the Shetland and Orkney Islands, one who holds property by udal, or allodial, right..
Protest :: Protest (v.) A solemn declaration in writing, in due form, made by a notary public, usually under his notarial seal, on behalf of the holder of a bill or note, protesting against all parties liable for any loss or damage by the nonacceptance or nonpayment of the bill, or by the nonpayment of the note, as the case may be..
Thresh-fold :: Thresh-fold (n.) Threshold.
Show :: Show (v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers)..
Possessor :: Possessor (n.) One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor..
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