Definition of hold

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

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Re-demption :: Re-demption (n.) Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill, bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition..
Caste :: Caste (n.) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.
Pretend :: Pretend (v. i.) To hold out the appearance of being, possessing, or performing; to profess; to make believe; to feign; to sham; as, to pretend to be asleep..
Cell :: Cell (n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery..
Bedstaff :: Bedstaff (n.) A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side..
Support :: Support (n.) The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining..
Governing :: Governing (a.) Holding the superiority; prevalent; controlling; as, a governing wind; a governing party in a state..
Alabaster :: Alabaster (n.) A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made..
Canister :: Canister (n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc..
Armful :: Armful (n.) As much as the arm can hold.
Tail :: Tail (v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
Tackle :: Tackle (n.) To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game..
Mediatize :: Mediatize (v. t.) To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank..
Seminal :: Seminal (a.) Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue..
Leash :: Leash (v. t.) To tie together, or hold, with a leash..
Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..
Knight Marshal :: Knight marshal () An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties..
Probabiliorist :: Probabiliorist (n.) One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right..
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place..
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