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A handle for a pen.

One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property.

A shipowner.

One who holds slaves.

Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.

The office or position of a stadtholder.

The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid.

One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.

An undertaker, or provider for funerals. [Obs.] The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. Gay.

One who withholds.

The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority.

One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee. Macaulay.

A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]

The dignity or office of the pope, as the holder of the apostolic see.

; also, the act of striking against. In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs. Holder.

with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.

A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract. Bancroft.

ge; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

e. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that suc…

A freeholder on a small scale. [Norway] Emerson.