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The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions.

A vessel for holding small beer. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine. (b) (Naut.)

A person holding a subordinate position; specifically, a commissioned military officer below the rank of captain.

Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward.

The withdrawing or withholding from a person of some right to which he is entitled by law.

the customs authorities for the shipment of goods. [Eng.] Estate of sufferance (Law), the holding by a tenant who came in by a lawful title, but remains, after his right has expired, without positive leave of the owner. Blackstone. -- On sufferance, by mere toleration; as, to remain in a house on sufferance.…

The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or sustaining.

Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that is the supreme King of kings. Shak.

hat which, suspends; esp., one of a pair of straps or braces worn over the shoulders, for holding up the trousers.

A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.

s and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge. Swage block, a perforated block of iron, having grooved sides and adapted for use in heading bolts and swaging objects of large size.…

Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button. [Obs.] Ex. xxvi. 6.

commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work.

A measuring pot holding one quart (according to some, three quarts); -- so called from a knob on the lid, though to resemble a crested hen. [Scot.] Jamieson.

See Oswego tea. -- Paraguay tea, mate. See 1st Mate. -- Tea board, a board or tray for holding a tea set. -- Tea bug (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect which injures the tea plant by sucking the juice of the tender leaves. -- Tea caddy, a small box for holding tea. -- Tea chest, a small, square wooden case, usually l…

An ornamental stand, usually with three legs, having caddies for holding tea.

The holding by the fourth hand of the best and third best cards of a suit led; also, sometimes, the combination of best with third best card of a suit in any hand.

Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.

A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.