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Cupful :: Cupful (n.) As much as a cup will hold.

Disrepute :: Disrepute (v. t.) To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.

Nut :: Nut (n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt..

Hent :: Hent (v. t.) To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get.

Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs..

Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..

Positivism :: Positivism (n.) A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useles

Protend :: Protend (v. t.) To hold out; to stretch forth.

Back :: Back (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc..

Holding :: Holding (n.) A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

Revoke :: Revoke (v. i.) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege..

Plank :: Plank (n.) Fig.: That which supports or upholds, as a board does a swimmer..

Inhold :: Inhold (v. t.) To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess.

Heterodox :: Heterodox (a.) Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons..

Sensualist :: Sensualist (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of sensualism.

Lar :: Lar (n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house..

Avowance :: Avowance (n.) Upholding; defense; vindication.

House :: House (n.) Those who dwell in the same house; a household.

Rounce :: Rounce (n.) The handle by which the bed of a hand press, holding the form of type, etc., is run in under the platen and out again; -- sometimes applied to the whole apparatus by which the form is moved under the platen..

Ditty-bag :: Ditty-bag (n.) A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife..

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