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Honeycomb :: Honeycomb (n.) A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs..

Pretension :: Pretension (n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship..

Chattelism :: Chattelism (n.) The act or condition of holding chattels; the state of being a chattel.

Harquebuse :: Harquebuse (n.) A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock..

Monogamous :: Monogamous (a.) Upholding, or practicing, monogamy..

Flagon :: Flagon (n.) A vessel with a narrow mouth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass..

Poling :: Poling (n.) One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc..

Bowl :: Bowl (n.) The contents of a full bowl; what a bowl will hold.

Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a grunting sound.

Enchain :: Enchain (v. t.) To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

Arminian :: Arminian (n.) One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609)..

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..

Cleat :: Cleat (n.) A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc..

View :: View (n.) The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

Cruet :: Cruet (n.) A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar..

Upheld :: Upheld () imp. & p. p. of Uphold.

Homaloidal :: Homaloidal (a.) Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true..

Dubber :: Dubber (n.) A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc..

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..

Foothold :: Foothold (n.) A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.

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