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Incumbrancer :: Incumbrancer (n.) One who holds an incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate..

Lunge :: Lunge (v. t.) To cause to go round in a ring, as a horse, while holding his halter..

Rent :: Rent (n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner..

Underbearer :: Underbearer (n.) One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall..

Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.

Witness :: Witness (v. i.) One who is cognizant; a person who beholds, or otherwise has personal knowledge of, anything; as, an eyewitness; an earwitness..

Bookholder :: Bookholder (n.) A prompter at a theater.

Retention :: Retention (n.) The act of withholding; retraint; reserve.

Ribband :: Ribband (n.) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position, and give rigidity to the framework..

Bearer :: Bearer (n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer..

Domesticity :: Domesticity (n.) The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

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

Drab :: Drab (n.) A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans..

Unlikely :: Unlikely (a.) Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means..

Poling :: Poling (n.) One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc..

Saturate :: Saturate (v. t.) To satisfy the affinity of; to cause to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold; as, to saturate phosphorus with chlorine..

Strut :: Strut (n.) Any part of a machine or structure, of which the principal function is to hold things apart; a brace subjected to compressive stress; -- the opposite of stay, and tie..

Optimist :: Optimist (n.) One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.

Propertied :: Propertied (a.) Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money..

Leasehold :: Leasehold (a.) Held by lease.

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