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Chuck :: Chuck (v. t.) To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning; to bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck..

Doop :: Doop (n.) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

Reservation :: Reservation (n.) Something withheld, either not expressed or disclosed, or not given up or brought forward..

Tridentine :: Tridentine (a.) Of or pertaining to Trent, or the general church council held in that city..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing..

Escrow :: Escrow (n.) A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee..

Bockland :: Bockland (n.) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds..

Precarious :: Precarious (a.) Held by a doubtful tenure; depending on unknown causes or events; exposed to constant risk; not to be depended on for certainty or stability; uncertain; as, a precarious state of health; precarious fortunes..

Dogma :: Dogma (n.) That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.

Unfree :: Unfree (a.) Not free; held in bondage.

Grappling :: Grappling (n.) A laying fast ho1d of; also, that by which anything is seized and held, a grapnel..

Shelduck :: Shelduck (n.) The sheldrake.

Drengage :: Drengage (n.) The tenure by which a drench held land.

Averroist :: Averroist (n.) One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism..

Hetarism :: Hetarism (n.) A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common..

Adscript :: Adscript (a.) Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

Vestry :: Vestry (n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.

Chew :: Chew (n.) That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.

Swainship :: Swainmote (n.) A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders, within the forest composing the jury..

Leamer :: Leamer (n.) A dog held by a leam.

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