Definition of hold

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Hold (n.) The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.

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Upheld :: Upheld () imp. & p. p. of Uphold.
Beholding :: Beholding (n.) The act of seeing; sight; also, that which is beheld..
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..
Brace :: Brace (n.) A curved instrument or handle of iron or wood, for holding and turning bits, etc.; a bitstock..
Barb :: Barb (v. t.) To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc..
Chuck :: Chuck (n.) A contrivance or machine fixed to the mandrel of a lathe, for holding a tool or the material to be operated upon..
Bill Holder :: Bill holder () A device by means of which bills, etc., are held..
Seminal :: Seminal (a.) Contained in seed; holding the relation of seed, source, or first principle; holding the first place in a series of developed results or consequents; germinal; radical; primary; original; as, seminal principles of generation; seminal virtue..
Baroness :: Baroness (n.) A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts..
Close-stool :: Close-stool (n.) A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover..
Doorsill :: Doorsill (n.) The sill or threshold of a door.
Signaturist :: Signaturist (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities..
Probabiliorist :: Probabiliorist (n.) One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right..
Urceole :: Urceole (n.) A vessel for water for washing the hands; also, one to hold wine or water..
Muff :: Muff (n.) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
Congregational :: Congregational (a.) Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church..
Apprehend :: Apprehend (v. t.) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind; to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider..
Hold :: Hold (n.) A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona..
Tenement :: Tenement (n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
Tache :: Tache (n.) Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
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