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Cross-tie :: Cross-tie (n.) A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place..

Deforcement :: Deforcement (n.) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right..

Abacus :: Abacus (n.) A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard..

Interviewing :: Interviewing (n.) The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews.

Pluralism :: Pluralism (n.) The state of a pluralist; the holding of more than one ecclesiastical living at a time.

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

Hiding :: Hiding (n.) The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment..

Holding :: Holding (n.) The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining..

Ejectment :: Ejectment (n.) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it..

Hold :: Hold (n.) The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay..

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

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..

Tractarian :: Tractarian (n.) One of the writers of the Oxford tracts, called Tracts for the Times, issued during the period 1833-1841, in which series of papers the sacramental system and authority of the Church, and the value of tradition, were brought into prominence. Also, a member of the High Church party, holding generally the principles of the Tractarian writers; a Puseyite..

Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels..

Brace :: Brace (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock..

Omnispective :: Omnispective (a.) Beholding everything; capable of seeing all things; all-seeing.

Library :: Library (n.) A building or apartment appropriated for holding such a collection of books.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition..

Dog :: Dog (n.) An iron for holding wood in a fireplace; a firedog; an andiron.

Crawl :: Crawl (n.) A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish..

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