Definition of hold

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Hold (v. t.) To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain..

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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..
Propriety :: Propriety (n.) Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.
Bearer :: Bearer (n.) One who holds a check, note, draft, or other order for the payment of money; as, pay to bearer..
Unhold :: Unhold (v. t.) To cease to hold; to unhand; to release.
Copyholder :: Copyholder (n.) One possessed of land in copyhold.
Holding :: Holding (n.) The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining..
Strap-shaped :: Strapple (v. t.) To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle..
Compaginate :: Compaginate (v. t.) To unite or hold together; as, the side pieces compaginate the frame..
Domiciliar :: Domiciliar (n.) A member of a household; a domestic.
Unfix :: Unfix (v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition..
Cleat :: Cleat (n.) A device made of wood or metal, having two arms, around which turns may be taken with a line or rope so as to hold securely and yet be readily released. It is bolted by the middle to a deck or mast, etc., or it may be lashed to a rope..
Cross-spall :: Cross-spall (n.) One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position until the deck beams are in; a cross-pawl..
Abdication :: Abdication (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority..
Presentment :: Presentment (n.) The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.
Immortalist :: Immortalist (n.) One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul.
Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.
Staktometer :: Stakeholder (n.) The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.
Ship :: Ship (n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
Knight Marshal :: Knight marshal () An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties..
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