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Harbinger :: Harbinger (n.) One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings..

Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form..

Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To withhold; to forbear.

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..

Tenure :: Tenure (n.) Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure..

Pailful :: Pailful (n.) The quantity that a pail will hold.

Cask :: Cask (n.) A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel..

Villain :: Villain (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage; a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant..

Incapable :: Incapable (a.) Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc..

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..

Defend :: Defend (v. t.) To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, to defend a town; to defend a cause; to defend character; to defend the absent; -- sometimes followed by from or against; as, to defend one's self from, or against, one's enemies..

Subtractive :: Subtraction (n.) The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.

Thimbleful :: Thimbleful (n.) As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.

Unfix :: Unfix (v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections..

Bowl :: Bowl (n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc..

Scaffold :: Scaffold (v. t.) To furnish or uphold with a scaffold.

Grasp :: Grasp (n.) Forcible possession; hold.

Scuttle :: Scuttle (n.) A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.

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..

Platform :: Platform (n.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop..

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