Definition of hold

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Hold (n.) A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.

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Dishful :: Dishful (n.) As much as a dish holds when full.
Wake :: Wake (v. i.) To sit up late festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Clinch :: Clinch (v. i.) To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp one another.
Snowshoe :: Snowshoe (n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow..
Bain-marie :: Bain-marie (n.) A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.
Plenishing :: Plenishing (n.) Household furniture; stock.
Shelf :: Shelf (v. i.) A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament..
Omnispective :: Omnispective (a.) Beholding everything; capable of seeing all things; all-seeing.
Undertenant :: Undertenant (n.) The tenant of a tenant; one who holds lands or tenements of a tenant or lessee.
Endure :: Endure (v. i.) To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out..
Paragon :: Paragon (v. i.) To be equal; to hold comparison.
Capacity :: Capacity (n.) The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling..
Lotto :: Lotto (n.) A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for determining a set of numbers by chance. The player holding a card having on it the set of numbers drawn from the wheel takes the stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno..
Monogamous :: Monogamous (a.) Upholding, or practicing, monogamy..
Grate :: Grate (n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning..
Restrain :: Restrain (v. t.) To withhold; to forbear.
Shovelful :: Shovelful (n.) As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.
Feudalism :: Feudalism (n.) The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
Speculation :: Speculation (n.) A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes..
Save :: Save (a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
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