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Trade Union :: Trade union () An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc..

Withhold :: Withhold (v. t.) To keep; to maintain; to retain.

Naturalist :: Naturalist (n.) One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion.

Polygenist :: Polygenist (n.) One who maintains that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.

Virus :: Virus (v. i.) The special contagion, inappreciable to the senses and acting in exceedingly minute quantities, by which a disease is introduced into the organism and maintained there..

Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Fig.: That which gives, or helps to maintain, uprightness, steadiness, and security..

Denial :: Denial (n.) A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction..

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument..

Probabilist :: Probabilist (n.) One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable..

Claim :: Claim (v./.) To assert; to maintain.

Asserter :: Asserter (n.) One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.

Indefensible :: Indefensible () Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc..

Realist :: Realist (n.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists..

Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

Jehovist :: "Jehovist (n.) One who maintains that the vowel points of the word Jehovah, in Hebrew, are the proper vowels of that word; -- opposed to adonist..

Tenet :: Tenet (n.) Any opinion, principle, dogma, belief, or doctrine, which a person holds or maintains as true; as, the tenets of Plato or of Cicero..

Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To support; to maintain.

Personable :: Personable (a.) Enabled to maintain pleas in court.

Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store..

Spiritualist :: Spiritualist (n.) One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist..

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