Definition of holding

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Holding (n.) A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.

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Keeping :: Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.
Distance :: Distance (n.) A withholding of intimacy; alienation; coldness; disagreement; variance; restraint; reserve.
Vice :: Vice (n.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise..
Magazine :: Magazine (n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.
Idiot :: Idiot (n.) A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office..
Unlikely :: Unlikely (a.) Not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means..
Brim :: Brim (n.) The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything..
Independent :: Independent (a.) Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines or methods of, the Independents..
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Tot :: Tot (n.) A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint..
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Tenure :: Tenure (n.) The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate..
Waldensian :: Waldensian (n.) One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
Blunderbuss :: Blunderbuss (n.) A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim..
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Interviewing :: Interviewing (n.) The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews.
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