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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Hōld'băck, n. p. 632Check; hinderance; restraint; obstacle. Hammond. 2. The iron or strap on the thill of a vehicle, to which a part of the harness is attached, in order to hold back the carriage from the animal…Hōld'er, n. p. 632One who holds, grasps, embraces, confines, restrains, believes, possesses, and the like. 2. Something by which a thing is held. 3. (Naut.) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. Totten.Hōld'er-fōrth', n. p. 632One who holds forth; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.Hōld'-fäst, n. p. 632Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long, flat-headed nail, a catch, a hook, &c. Hebert.Hōld'ing, n. p. 632A tenure; a farm held of a superior; any thing that is held. Carew. 2. The burden or chorus of a song. [Obs.] Shak. 3. That which holds, binds, or influences; hold; influence; power. Burke.Hōle, n. p. 632A hollow place or cavity; a rent, fissure, crevice, pit, perforation, excavation, or the like. Jehoiada, the priest, took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it. 2 Kings xii. 9. 2. An excavation…Hōle, v. i. p. 632To go into a hole. B. Jonson.Hōle, v. t. p. 632To cut, dig, or make a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. “With throwing of the holed stone, with hurling of their darts.” Chapman. 2. To drive into a hole, as…Hōle, a. p. 632Whole. [Obs.] Spencer.Hōl'i-but, n. p. 632See HALIBUT.Hŏl'i-dam, n. p. 632The same as HALIDOME.Hōl'i-dāy, n. p. 632A consecrated day; a religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See HOLYDAY. [Rare.] 2. A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement, joy…Hōl'i-dāy, a. p. 632Pertaining to a festival; gay.Hō'li-ly, adv. p. 632In a holy manner; piously; with sanctity. 2. Sacredly; inviolably. [Rare.] Shak.Hō'li-ness, n. p. 632The state or quality of being holy; purity or integrity of moral character; freedom from sin; sanctity. We see piety and holiness ridiculed as morose singularities. Rogers. ☞ Applied to the Supreme…Hōl'ing-ăx, n. p. 632A narrow ax for cutting holes in posts.Hōl'īā, interj. p. 632Hollo. See HOLLO.Hŏl'lă, v. i. p. 632To hollo. See HOLLO.Hōl'land, n. p. 632A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland.Hōl'land-er, n. p. 632(Geog.) A native or an inhabitant of Holland; a Dutchman.Hōl’land-ish, a. p. 632Of, or pertaining to, Holland; resembling the Hollanders; Dutch.Hōl'lands, n. p. 632Gin made in Holland.Hōl'len, n. p. 632The holly. Halliwell.Hōl'lo or Hōl'loa, interj. & n. p. 632Hey; ho; attend; here; — it is the usual response when a ship is hailed at sea. And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo. Coleridge.Hŏl'lo, v. i. p. 632To call out or exclaim; to halloo.Hōl'lock, n. p. 632A kind of sweet wine used in the sixteenth century.Hōl'lōw, a. p. 632Containing an empty space, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; cavernous; open within; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow rock; a hollow sphere. Hollow…Hŏl'lōw, n. p. 632A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within any thing; a hole; a cavern; an excavation; as, the hollow of the hand, or of a tree. 2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed…Hŏl'lōw, v. t. p. 633To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. Trees rudely hollowed did the waves sustain. Dryden.Hŏl'lōw, adv. p. 633So as to make hollow, or empty of resources, strength, and the like; completely; utterly;—chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, he beat his competitors hollow; this story beats the…Hol-lōw', interj. p. 633Hollo. See HOLLO.Hōl'lōw, v. i. p. 633To shout; to hollo. Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. Fuller.Hŏl'lōw, v. t. p. 633To urge or call by shouting. He has hollowed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knob-bler. W. Scott.Hŏl'lōw-heärt'ed, a. p. 633Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; of practice or sentiment different from profession. Butler. Syn.—Faithless; insincere; dishonest; deceitful; false; treacherous.Hōl'lōw-ly, adv. p. 633In a hollow manner; insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.Hōl'lōw-ness, n. p. 633The state of being hollow; cavity; excavation. Bacon. 2. Insincerity; deceitfulness; treachery. South.Hŏl'lōw-root, n. p. 633(Bot.) A tuberous plant; mos-chatel. See MOSCHATEL.Hōl'lōw-spār, n. p. 633(Min.) The mineral called also chiastolite.Hŏl'ly, n. p. 633(Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (I. aquifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about…Sea-holly p. 633a plant of the genus Eryngium (E. maritimum); sea-hulver; sea-holm. It is found on the sandy shores of Europe, and was once much used in medicine.Hŏl'ly-hŏck, n. p. 633(Bot.) A plant of the genus Althæa (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors;—called also rose-mallow.Hōlm, n. p. 633(Bot.) The evergreen oak; the ilex. See HOLLY, 2.Hōlm, n. p. 633An islet, or river isle. 2. A low, flat tract of rich land on the banks of a river. “The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms.” Tennyson.Hŏl'o-caust p. 633m. [Lat. holocaustum, Gr. ὁλόκαυστον, from ὅλος, whole, and καυστός, burnt, καίειν, to burn; Fr. holocauste.] A burnt sacrifice or offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire;—a species of…Hŏl/o-crȳp'tic, a. p. 633Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being understood or found out. Holocryptic cipher, a cipher so constructed as to afford no clew to its meaning to one ignorant of the key or scheme in…Hōl'o-grāph, n. p. 633Any writing, as a letter, deed, will, memorandum, &c., wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds, or who bestows by means of it.Hŏl'o-grāph'ic, a. p. 633Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.Hōl'o-hē'dral, a. p. 633(Crystallog.) Having all the similar parts similarly replaced; as, a holohedral crystal. Dana.Ho-lōm'e-ter, n. p. 633An instrument for taking measurements of all kinds; a pantometer. Hebert.Hŏl'o-stōme, n. p. 633(Zoöl.) A univalve mollusk having the aperture of the shell entire, or without a terminating canal. Dana.Hŏl'ō-thūre, n. p. 633(Zoöl.) A marine, radiate animal, of the order of Echinoderms, having an elongated body and leathery skin, an alimentary canal open at both ends, and generally with a circlet of tentacles about the…Hŏl'o-thū'ri-an, n. p. 633One of the holothures.Hŏl'ō-thŭ'ri-an, a. p. 633Belonging to the holothures.Hŏl'o-thū'ri-de, n. p. 633(Zoöl.) A family of animals belonging to the order Echinodermata, having a free, cylindrical body, thick, soft, and very contractile; the mouth terminal, and surrounded with tentacula. Eng. Cyc.Hŏlp or Hŏlp'en, imp. & p. p. p. 633of help. [Obs.]Hŏl'ster, n. p. 633A leathern case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the fore part of his saddle.Hōl'stered, a. p. 633Bearing holsters; as, a holstered steed. Byron.Hōlt, n. p. 633A wood, or piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. [Obs., except in poetry.] As the wind in holts and shady greaves, A murmur makes among the boughs and leaves. Fairfax. She sent her voice…Hō'ly, a. p. 633Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; as, the holy Sabbath; holy oil; holy vessels; a holy nation; the holy temple; a holy priesthood. 2. Worthy to be employed in the service…Hō'ly-crŏss', n. p. 633(Rom. Cath. Church.) An ecclesiastical order established in France in 1834, and approved in 1856, and consisting of Priests, who devote themselves to preaching and collegiate education, Brothers, who…