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<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Holding</h1> <Xpage=698>

<hw>Hold"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which holds, binds, or influences.</def>

<i>Burke.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The burden or chorus of a song.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>Holding note</col> <fld>(Mus.)</fld>, <cd>a note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Hole</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Whole.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

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<hw>Hole</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hol</ets>, <ets>hole</ets>, <ets>AS</ets>. <ets>hol</ets>, hole, cavern, from <ets>hol</ets>, a., <ets>hollow</ets>; <ets>akin to D</ets>. <ets>hol</ets>, OHG. <ets>hol</ets>, G. <ets>hohl</ets>, Dan.<ets>huul</ets> hollow, <ets>hul</ets> hole, Sw. <ets>h\'86l</ets>, Icel. <ets>hola</ets>; prob. from the root of AS. <ets>helan</ets> to conceal. See <er>Hele</er>, <er>Hell</er>, and cf. <er>Hold</er> of a ship.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>holes</b> where eyes should be. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The blind walls Were full of chinks and <b>holes</b>. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The priest took a chest, and bored a <b>hole</b> in the lid. <i>2 Kings xii. 9.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>The foxes have <b>holes</b>, . . . but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. <i>Luke ix. 58.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Hollow; concavity; aperture; rent; fissure; crevice; orifice; interstice; perforation; excavation; pit; cave; den; cell.</syn>

<cs><col>Hole and corner</col>, <cd>clandestine, underhand. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> "The wretched trickery of <i>hole</i> and <i>corner</i> buffery. " <i>Dickens</i>. -- <col>Hole board</col> <fld>(Fancy Weaving)</fld>, <cd>a board having holes through which cords pass which lift certain warp threads; -- called also <altname>compass board</altname>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Hole</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>holian</ets>. See <er>Hole</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; <as>as, to <ex>hole</ex> a post for the insertion of rails or bars</as>.</def>

<i>Chapman.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.</def>

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