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To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders. E. Irving.

Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.

A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.

One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke.

The state of being occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good housewife she. Dryden.

A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.

To hold fast; to cling to; to cherish. We hug deformities if they bear our names. Glanvill.

An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.

The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family. [Obs.]

t department of sanitary science which treats of the preservation of health, esp. of households and communities; a system of principles or rules designated for the promotion of health.

One who holds a shield over another; hence, a defender. [Obs.] Chillingworth.

b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice. -- Ice box or chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream Etym: [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored,…

latonists to have excited objectively from eternity in the mind of the Deity. Thence to behold this new-created world, The addition of his empire, how it showed In prospect from his throne, how good, how fair, Answering his great idea. Milton.

One who holds the doctrine of idealism.

To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. [R.]

A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office. [Obs.] St. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons. Jer. Taylor.

tion; to imagine. Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. Pope.

To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.

undefiled; clear; pure. Were but my soul as pure From other guilt as that, Heaven did not hold One more immaculate. Denham. Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain. Shak. Immaculate conception (R. C. Ch.), the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. -- Im*mac"u*late*ly, adv. -- Im*mac"u*l…