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eep in expectation; to have in one's power. [Obs.] O, fie! to receive favors, return falsehoods, And hold a lady in hand. Beaw. & Fl. --To hold in play, to keep under control; to dally with. Macaulay. -- To hold off, to keep at a distance. -- To hold on, to hold in being, continuance or position; as, to hold a rider…

of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood. "Holy rites and solemn feasts." Milton.

A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form - head.

A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A hood. See Houve. [Obs.]

else is huddled when the skies are fair. Dryden. Now, in all haste, they huddle on Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone. Swift.

ness or submission. The former was a humiliation of Deity; the latter a humiliation of manhood. Hooker.

ng by false show; deceitful; deceptive; false; illusory; unreal. Truth from illusive falsehood to command. Thomson.

The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.

The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged. Bell.

. Ins and outs, nooks and corners; twists and turns. All the ins and outs of this neighborhood. D. Jerrold.

isposed; -- used with reference to some evil; as, incapable of wrong, dishonesty, or falsehood.

The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.

Sufficient means for a comfortable livelihood. Declaration of Independence (Amer. Hist.), the declaration of the Congress of the Thirteen United States of America, on the 4th of July, 1776, by which they formally declared that these colonies were free and independent States, not subject to the government of Great Brita…

Affording a comfortable livelihood; as, an independent property.

The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their love in early infancy began. Dryden.

uprigth; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal. If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuin method to obviate dishonesty. Locke.

o intermingle; to unite intimately; to connect closely; as, to interweave truth with falsehood. Dryden. Words interwove with sighs found out their way. Milton.

rge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood. Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. Milton. He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others. Sir W. Scott.

ontrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention. We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. Evelyn.