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- English Word Holder Definition One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.
- English Word Holder Definition The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.
- English Word Holder-forth Definition One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher.
- English Word Holdfast Definition Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.
- English Word Holdfast Definition A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.
- English Word Holding Definition of Hold
- English Word Holding Definition The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.
- English Word Holding Definition A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
- English Word Holding Definition That which holds, binds, or influences.
- English Word Holding Definition The burden or chorus of a song.
- English Word Hole Definition Whole.
- English Word Hole Definition A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
- English Word Hole Definition An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
- English Word Hole Definition To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
- English Word Hole Definition To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
- English Word Hole Definition To go or get into a hole.
- English Word Holethnic Definition Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.
- English Word Holethnos Definition A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.
- English Word Holibut Definition See Halibut.
- English Word Holidam Definition See Halidom.
- English Word Holiday Definition A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
- English Word Holiday Definition A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
- English Word Holiday Definition A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
- English Word Holiday Definition Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
- English Word Holiday Definition Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
- English Word Holily Definition Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.
- English Word Holily Definition Sacredly; inviolably.
- English Word Holiness Definition The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence.
- English Word Holiness Definition The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness.
- English Word Holing Definition Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass.