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An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.

ed or tight; tension. The laxness of the tympanum, when it has lost its brace or tension. Holder.

A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.

mmunicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.

, other than that of the diatonic scale. Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. Holder. Change of life, the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age. -- Change ringing, the continual production, without…

throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder.

A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.

Ordinarily residing; inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.

nd fraction. (Math.) See Fraction. -- Compound fracture. See Fracture. -- Compound householder, a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents. [Eng.] -- Compound interest. See Interest. -- Compound larceny. (Law) See Larceny. -- Compound leaf (Bot.), a leaf…

xcellent copy for imitation. Let him first learn to write, after a copy, all the letters. Holder.

Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. [Germany]

To act against with equal power; to balance. So many freeholders of English will be able to beard and counterpoise the rest. Spenser.

A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

judgment of more critical ears to direct and determine what is graceful and what is not. Holder.

The state of being curved; a bending in a regular form; crookedness. Holder.

"ni*eh, or Sa"ni*yeh, and the Da"i*ra Khas"sa, administered by the khedive's European bondholders, and known collectively as the Daira, or the Daira estates.

a series of debentures; a debt secured by a trust deed of property for the benefit of the holders of shares in the debt or of a series of debentures. By the terms of much debenture stock the holders are not entitled to demand payment until the winding up of the company or default in payment; in the winding up of the co…

Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. [R.] Holder.

ars. Daniel. They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it. Holder.

Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.