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Commode :: Commode (n.) A night stand with a compartment for holding a chamber vessel.

Workbasket :: Workbasket (n.) A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like..

Emphyteuticary :: Emphyteuticary (n.) One who holds lands by emphyteusis.

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc..

Pause :: Pause (n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7..

Teaspoonful :: Teaspoonful (n.) As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.

Errorist :: Errorist (n.) One who encourages and propagates error; one who holds to error.

Save-all :: Save-all (n.) A device in a candlestick to hold the ends of candles, so that they be burned..

Crannoge :: Crannoge (n.) One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake..

Pitcherful :: Pitcherful (n.) The quantity a pitcher will hold.

Adjudge :: Adjudge (v. t.) To regard or hold; to judge; to deem.

Transitive :: Transitive (a.) Passing over to an object; expressing an action which is not limited to the agent or subject, but which requires an object to complete the sense; as, a transitive verb, for example, he holds the book..

Portative :: Portative (a.) Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity..

Sacramentalist :: Sacramentalist (n.) One who holds the doctrine of the real objective presence of Christ's body and blood in the holy eucharist.

Domestical :: Domestical (n.) A family; a household.

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form..

Idiot :: Idiot (n.) A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office..

Pot :: Pot (n.) A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc.; as, a quart pot; a flower pot; a bean pot..

Brank :: Brank (v. i.) To hold up and toss the head; -- applied to horses as spurning the bit.

Caster :: Caster (n.) A stand to hold a set of cruets.

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