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Hold [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A grasp with the hand; an embrace with the arms; any act or exertion of the strength or limbs which keeps a thing fast and prevents escape. Keep your hold; never quit your hold

2. It is much used after the verbs to take, and to lay; to take hold or to lay hold is to seize. It is used in a literal sense; as to take hold with the hands, with the arms, or with the teeth; or in a figurative sense.

3. Sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestine. Exo 15.

4. Take fast hold of instruction. Proverbs 4:13 .

5. My soul took hold on thee.

6. Something which may be seized for support; that which supports.

7. If a man be upon a high place, without a good hold he is ready to fall.

8. Power of keeping.

9. On your vigor now,

10. My hold of this new kingdom all depends.

11. Power of seizing.

12. The law hath yet another hold on you.

13. A prison; a place of confinement.

14. They laid hands on them, and put them in hold till the next day. Acts 4:3 .

15. Custody; safe keeping.

16. King Richard, he is in the mighty hold

17. Of Bolingbroke.

18. Power or influence operating on the mind; advantage that may be employed in directing or persuading another, or in governing his conduct.

19. Fear--by which God and his laws take the surest hold of us.

20. --Gives fortune no more hold of him than is necessary.

21. Lurking place; a place of security; as the hold of a wild beast.

22. A fortified place; a fort; a castle; often called a strong hold Jeremiah 51:30 .

23. The whole interior cavity of a ship, between the floor and the lower deck. In a vessel of one deck, the whole interior space from the keel or floor to the deck. That part of the hold which lies abaft the main-mast is called the after-hold; that part immediately before the main-mast, the main-hold; that part about the fore-hatchway, the fore-hold.

24. In music, a mark directing the performer to rest on the note over which it is placed. It is called also a pause.

Hold [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To be true; not to fail; to stand, as a fact or truth. This is a sound argument in many cases, but does not hold in the case under consideration.

2. The rule holds in lands as well as in other things.

3. In this application, we often say, to hold true, to hold good. The argument holds good in both cases. This holds true in most cases.

4. To continue unbroken or unsubdued.

5. Our force by land hath nobly held. [Little used.]

6. To last; to endure.

7. We now say, to hold out.

8. To continue.

9. While our obedience holds.

10. To be fast; to be firm; not to give way, or part. The rope is strong; I believe it will hold The anchor holds well.

11. To refrain.

12. His dauntless heart would fain have held

13. From weeping.

14. To stick or adhere. The plaster will not hold

15. To hold forth, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach; to proclaim.

16. To hold in, to restrain one's self. He was tempted to laugh; he could hardly hold in.

17. To continue in good luck. [Unusual.]

18. To hold off, to keep at a distance; to avoid connection.

19. To hold of, to be dependent on; to derive title from.

20. My crown is absolute and holds of none.

21. To hold on, to continue; not to be interrupted.

22. The trade held on many years.

23. To keep fast hold; to cling to.

24. To proceed in a course. Job 17:9 .

25. To hold out, to last; to endure; to continue.

26. A consumptive constitution may hold out a few years. He will accomplish the work, if his strength holds out.

27. Not to yield; not to surrender; not to be subdued.

28. The garrison still held out.

29. To hold to, to cling or cleave to; to adhere.

30. Else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Matthew 6:24 .

31. To hold under, or from, to have title from; as petty barons holding under the greater barons.

32. To hold with, to adhere to; to side with; to stand up for.hold plow, to direct or steer a plow by the hands, in tillage.

33. To hold together, to be joined; not to separate; to remain in union.

34. To hold up, to support one's self; as, to hold up under misfortunes.

35. To cease raining; to cease, as falling weather; used impersonally. It holds up; it will hold up.

36. To continue the same speed; to run or move fast.

37. But we now say, to keep up.

38. To hold a wager, to lay, to stake or to hazard a wager.

39. HOLD , used imperatively, signifies stop; cease; forbear; be still.

Hold [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense held; participle passive held. Holden is obsolete in elegant writing. [Gr. to hold or restrain; Heb. to hold or contain.]

2. To stop; to confine; to restrain from escape; to keep fast; to retain. It rarely or never signifies the first act of seizing or falling on, but the act of retaining a thing when seized or confined. To grasp, is to seize, or to keep fast in the hand; hold coincides with grasp in the latter sense, but not in the former. We hold a horse by means of a bridle. An anchor holds a ship in her station.

3. To embrace and confine, with bearing or lifting. We hold an orange in the hand, or a child in the arms.

4. To connect; to keep from separation.

5. The loops held one curtain to another. Exodus 36:1 .

6. To maintain, as an opinion. He holds the doctrine of justification by free grace.

7. To consider; to regard; to think; to judge, that is, to have in the mind.

8. I hold him but a fool.

9. The Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain. Exodus 20:7 .

10. To contain, or to have capacity to receive and contain. Here is an empty basket that holds two bushels. This empty cask holds thirty gallons. The church holds two thousand people.

11. To retain within itself; to keep from running or flowing out. A vessel with holes in its bottom will not hold fluids.

12. They have hewed them out broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jeremiah 2:13 .

13. To defend; to keep possession; to maintain.

14. We mean to hold what anciently we claim

15. Of empire.

16. To have; as, to hold a place, office or title.

17. To have or possess by title; as, he held his lands of the king. The estate is held by copy of court-roll.

18. To refrain; to stop; to restrain; to withhold. hold your laughter. hold your tongue.

19. Death! what do'st? O, hold thy blow.

20. To keep; as, hold your peace.

21. To fix; to confine; to compel to observe or fulfill; as, to hold one to his promise.

22. To confine; to restrain from motion.

23. The Most High--held still the flood till they had passed. 2 Esdras.

24. To confine; to bind; in a legal or moral sense. He is held to perform his covenants.

25. To maintain; to retain; to continue.

26. But still he held his purpose to depart.

27. To keep in continuance or practice.

28. And Night and Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy.

29. To continue; to keep; to prosecute or carry on.

30. Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary-frost,

31. Shall hold their course.

32. To have in session; as, to hold a court or parliament; to hold a council.

33. To celebrate; to solemnize; as, to hold a feast.

34. To maintain; to sustain; to have in use or exercise; as, to hold an argument or debate.

35. To sustain; to support.

36. Thy right hand shall hold me. Psalms 139:10 .

37. To carry; to wield.

38. They all hold swords, being expert in war. Song of Solomon 3:8 .

39. To maintain; to observe in practice.

40. Ye hold the traditions of men. Mark 7:4 .

41. To last; to endure. The provisions will hold us, till we arrive in port. So we say, the provisions will last us; but the phrase is elliptical for will hold or last for us, the verb being intransitive.

42. To hold forth, to offer; to exhibit; to propose.

43. Observe the connection of ideas in the propositions which books hold forth and pretend to teach.

44. To reach forth; to put forward to view.

45. To hold in, to restrain; to curb; to govern by the bridle.

46. To restrain in general; to check; to repress.

47. To hold off, to keep at a distance.

48. To hold on, to continue or proceed in; as, to hold on a course.

49. To hold out, to extend; to stretch forth.

50. The king held out to Esther the golden scepter. Esther 5:1 .

51. To propose; to offer.

52. Fortune holds out these to you as rewards.

53. To continue to do or suffer.

54. He cannot long hold out these pangs. [Not used.]

55. To hold up, to raise; as, hold up your head.

56. To sustain; to support.

57. He holds himself up in virtue.

58. To retain; to withhold.

59. To offer; to exhibit. He held up to view the prospect of gain.

60. To sustain; to keep from falling.

61. To hold one's own, to keep good one's present condition; not to fall off, or to lose ground. In seamen's language, a ship holds her own, when she sails as fast as another ship, or keeps her course.

62. To hold is used by the Irish, for to lay, as a bet, to wager. I hold a crown, or a dollar; but this is a vulgar use of the word.

Hold [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

2. The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay.

3. The authority or ground to take or keep; claim.

4. Binding power and influence.

5. Something that may be grasped; means of support.

6. A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody; guard.

7. A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; -- often called a stronghold.

8. A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and corona.

Hold [N. i.] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence:

2. Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative.

3. Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.

4. Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist.

5. Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for.

6. To restrain one's self; to refrain.

7. To derive right or title; -- generally with of.

Hold [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend.

3. To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office.

4. To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.

5. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.

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.

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.

8. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.

9. To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think; to judge.

10. To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he holds his head high.

Holdback [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Hinderance; restraint.

Holdback [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.

2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.

Holden Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Holder [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who holds or grasps in his hand, or embraces with his arms.

2. A tenant; one who holds land under another.

3. Something by which a thing is held.

4. One who owns or possesses; as a holder of stock, or shares in a joint concern.

5. In ships, one who is employed in the hold.

Holder [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.

2. One who, or that which, holds.

3. One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.

4. The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.

Holder-forth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher.

Holderforth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A haranguer; a preacher.

Holdfast [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A thing that takes hold; a catch; a hook.

Holdfast [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. 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.

Holding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A tenure; a farm held of a superior.

2. The burden or chorus of a song.

3. Hold; influence; power over.

Holding [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stopping; confining; restraining; keeping; retaining; adhering; maintaining, etc.

Holding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

4. The burden or chorus of a song.

Holding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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HÖlderlin Encyclopedia Britannica

HÖLDERLIN, Johann Christian Friedrich (1770- 1843), German poet, was born March 29, 1770, at Lauffen on the Neckar. His mother removing, after a second marriage, to Nürtingen, he began his education at the classical school there, where Schelling was his schoolfellow and playmate. He was destined by his relations for the church, and with this view was later admitted to the free schools of Denkendorf and Maulbronn. At the age of eighteen, already an excellent classical scholar, he was sent to the university of Tübingen, where, however, he showed no inclination to the study of theology. He was already the writer of occasional verses, and had begun to sketch his first version of Hyperion, when he was introduced in 1793 to Schiller, and obtained through him the post of tutor to the young son of Frau von Kalb. A year later he left this situation to attend Fichte’s lectures, and to become a disciple of Schiller in Jena. Schiller recognized in the young poet something of his own style of genius, and encouraged his early literary attempts by sending some of them to Goethe, and by superintending the publication of others in the Thalia and Horen. In 1796 Hölderlin obtained the post of tutor to the three young children of a banker named Gontard in Frankfort. Gontard’s beautiful and gifted wife is the Diotima of Hölderlin’s Hyperion. For this lady he conceived a foolish and hopeless passion; and she became at once his inspiration and his ruin. At the end of two years, during which time the first volume of Hyperion was published (1797), some kind of crisis appears to have occurred in their friendship, for the unhappy young poet suddenly left Frankfort and the Gontard family; but whether he was dismissed by the indignant husband of Diotima, or was impelled by his own better ...

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Genesis 19:16

And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

But when Lot hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and his two daughters. And they led them safely out of the city, because of the LORD’s compassion for them.

Genesis 21:18

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

Genesis 25:26

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.

Genesis 43:9

I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

I will guarantee his safety. You may hold me personally responsible. If I do not bring him back and set him before you, then may I bear the guilt before you all my life.

Exodus 5:1

And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”

Exodus 9:2

For if thou refuse to let them go, and wilt hold them still,

But if you continue to restrain them and refuse to let them go,

Exodus 10:9

And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.

“We will go with our young and old,” Moses replied. “We will go with our sons and daughters, and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”

Exodus 12:16

And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

Exodus 14:14

The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

Exodus 15:14

The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

The nations will hear and tremble; anguish will grip the dwellers of Philistia.

Exodus 15:15

Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

Then the chiefs of Edom will be dismayed; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; those who dwell in Canaan will melt away,

Exodus 20:7

Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Exodus 22:29

Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.

Exodus 25:27

Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

The rings are to be close to the rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.

Exodus 26:5

Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

Make fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the second set, so that the loops line up opposite one another.

Exodus 26:29

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.

Exodus 30:4

And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.

And make two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.

Exodus 36:34

And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

And he overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. He also overlaid the crossbars with gold.

Exodus 37:14

Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

The rings were placed close to the rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.

Exodus 37:27

And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.

He made two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.