4 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hold \Hold\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Held}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Holding}. {Holden}, p. p., is obs. in elegant writing,
though still used in legal language.] [OE. haldan, D. houden,
OHG. hoten, Icel. halda, Dan. holde, Sw. h[*a]lla, Goth.
haldan to feed, tend (the cattle); of unknown origin. Gf.
{Avast}, {Halt}, {Hod}.]
1. To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or
relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent
from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep
in the grasp; to retain.
The loops held one curtain to another. --Ex. xxxvi.
12.
Thy right hand shall hold me. --Ps. cxxxix.
10.
They all hold swords, being expert in war. --Cant.
iii. 8.
In vain he seeks, that having can not hold.
--Spenser.
France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue, . .
.
A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,
Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.
--Shak.
2. To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or
authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to
defend.
We mean to hold what anciently we claim
Of deity or empire. --Milton.
3. To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to
derive title to; as, to hold office.
This noble merchant held a noble house. --Chaucer.
Of him to hold his seigniory for a yearly tribute.
--Knolles.
And now the strand, and now the plain, they held.
--Dryden.
4. To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to
bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
We can not hold mortality's strong hand. --Shak.
Death! what do'st? O, hold thy blow. --Grashaw.
He had not sufficient judgment and self-command to
hold his tongue. --Macaulay.
5. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute,
as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to
sustain.
Hold not thy peace, and be not still. --Ps. lxxxiii.
1.
Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost,
Shall hold their course. --Milton.
6. To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which
is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a
festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring
about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the
general held a council of war; a judge holds a court; a
clergyman holds a service.
I would hold more talk with thee. --Shak.
7. To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this
pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain;
to have capacity or containing power for.
Broken cisterns that can hold no water. --Jer. ii.
13.
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold.
--Shak.
8. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or
privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to
sustain.
Stand fast and hold the traditions which ye have
been taught. --2 Thes.
ii.15.
But still he held his purpose to depart. --Dryden.
9. To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think;
to judge.
I hold him but a fool. --Shak.
I shall never hold that man my friend. --Shak.
The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his
name in vain. --Ex. xx. 7.
10. To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he
holds his head high.
Let him hold his fingers thus. --Shak.
{To hold a wager}, to lay or hazard a wager. --Swift.
{To hold forth},
(a) verb (used with an object)to offer; to exhibit; to propose; to put
forward. ''The propositions which books hold forth
and pretend to teach.'' --Locke.
(b) verb (used without an object) To talk at length; to harangue.
{To held in}, to restrain; to curd.
{To hold in hand}, to toy with; to keep in expectation; to
have in one's power. [Obs.]
O, fie! to receive favors, return falsehoods,
And hold a lady in hand. --Beaw. & Fl.
{To hold in play}, to keep under control; to dally with.
--Macaulay.
{To hold off}, to keep at a distance.
{To hold on}, to hold in being, continuance or position; as,
to hold a rider on.
{To hold one's day}, to keep one's appointment. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
{To hold one's own}. To keep good one's present condition
absolutely or relatively; not to fall off, or to lose
ground; as, a ship holds her own when she does not lose
ground in a race or chase; a man holds his own when he
does not lose strength or weight.
{To hold one's peace}, to keep silence.
{To hold out}.
(a) To extend; to offer. ''Fortune holds out these to you
as rewards.'' --B. Jonson.
(b) To continue to do or to suffer; to endure. ''He can
not long hold out these pangs.'' --Shak.
{To hold up}.
(a) To raise; to lift; as, hold up your head.
(b) To support; to sustain. ''He holds himself up in
virtue.''--Sir P. Sidney.
(c) To exhibit; to display; as, he was held up as an
example.
(d) To rein in; to check; to halt; as, hold up your
horses.
(e) to rob, usually at gunpoint; -- often with the demand
to ''hold up'' the hands.
(f) To delay.
{To hold water}.
(a) Literally, to retain water without leaking; hence
(Fig.), to be whole, sound, consistent, without gaps
or holes; -- commonly used in a negative sense; as,
his statements will not hold water. [Colloq.]
(b) (Naut.) To hold the oars steady in the water, thus
checking the headway of a boat.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Holding \Hold"ing\, noun
1. The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.
2. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
3. That which holds, binds, or influences. --Burke.
4. The burden or chorus of a song. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Holding note} (Mus.), a note sustained in one part, while
the other parts move.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
holding
adjective: designed for (usually temporary) retention; "a holding pen";
"a retaining wall" [syn: {retaining}]
noun
1: the act of keeping in your possession [syn: {retention}, {keeping}]
2: something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that
is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a
man of property"; [syn: {property}, {belongings}, {material
possession}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
169 Moby Thesaurus words for "holding":
absolute interest, absorbing, adverse possession, alodium,
arresting, attractive, bearing, benefit, blessed with, block,
board lot, bolstering, bottling up, bracing, burdened, burgage,
buttressing, carrying, claim, clinging, colony, common, compelling,
compulsive, consuming, contingent interest, corking up, de facto,
de jure, dependency, derivative title, driving, dummy share,
easement, enchanting, enfeoffed, engaging, engrossing, enthralling,
equitable interest, equity, estate, even lot, fascinating,
fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute,
fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible,
fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom,
fractional lot, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, full lot,
gavelkind, grasping, gripping, having, having and holding,
having title to, hold, holding in, holdings, hypnotic, impelling,
in possession of, inhibition, interest, keeping, knight service,
landed, landholding, landowning, lay fee, lease, leasehold,
legal claim, legal possession, limitation, locking in, lot,
magnetic, maintaining, maintenance, mandate, master of, mesmeric,
mesmerizing, obsessing, obsessional, obsessive, occupancy,
occupation, occupying, odd lot, original title, owning, part,
percentage, possessed of, possessing, possession, preference share,
prehension, preoccupancy, preoccupation, preoccupying,
prepossession, prescription, preservation, propertied, property,
property rights, property-owning, propping, proprietary rights,
repression, retainment, retention, retentive, retentiveness,
retentivity, right, right of entry, round lot, seisin, seized of,
settlement, share, shoring, socage, spellbinding, squatting, stake,
stockholding, stockholdings, strict settlement, sublease,
supporting, supportive, suppression, suspensory, sustaining,
sustentative, tenacious, tenacity, tenancy, tenantry, tenure,
tenure in chivalry, tenured, title, trust, underlease,
undertenancy, upholding, use, usucapion, vested interest,
villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, worth
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