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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'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…Hō'ly-cru'el, a. p. 633Cruel from excess of holiness. [Obs. and very rare.] Shak.Hŏ'ly-dāy, n. p. 633A religious festival. 2. A festival of any kind; a holiday. [Rare.] ☞ In the latter sense, holiday is the preferable spelling.