Definition of hold

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Hold (v. t.) 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..

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#NAME? :: -ist () A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds to socialism; sensualist, one given to sensuality..
Supernaturalistic :: Supernaturalist (n.) One who holds to the principles of supernaturalism.
Capture :: Capture (v. t.) To seize or take possession of by force, surprise, or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort..
Pitcherful :: Pitcherful (n.) The quantity a pitcher will hold.
Holdback :: Holdback (n.) 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..
Soft :: Soft (interj.) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
Stercorarian :: Stercoranist (n.) A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient..
Leasehold :: Leasehold (a.) Held by lease.
Nog :: Nog (n.) A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork..
Universalist :: Universalist (n.) One who believes in Universalism; one of a denomination of Christians holding this faith.
Vice :: Vice (v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice..
Caste :: Caste (n.) A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.
Clinch :: Clinch (v. t.) To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
Strap-shaped :: Strapple (v. t.) To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle..
Receive :: Receive (v. t.) To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity for; to be able to take in.
Headborrow :: Headborrow (n.) The chief of a frankpledge, tithing, or decennary, consisting of ten families; -- called also borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder..
Strut :: Strut (v. t.) To hold apart. Cf. Strut, n., 3..
Fasten :: Fasten (v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
Hold :: Hold (n. i.) Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.
Deforce :: Deforce (v.) To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold..
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