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

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.

oper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden.

A stock option giving the holder the double privilege of a "put" and a "call," i. e., securing to the buyer of the option the right either to demand of the seller at a certain price, within a certain time, certain securities, or to require him to take at the same price, and within the same time, the same securities. [B…

In wrestling, a hold by which one's opponent is choked. It is usually not allowed.

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

To hold or bind with, or as with, a strap; to entangle. [Obs.] Chapman.

walk with a lofty, proud gait, and erect head; to walk with affected dignity. Does he not hold up his head, . . . and strut in his gait Shak.

The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence. Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience To do no contrived murder. Shak.

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

One who holds to subjectivism; an egoist.

A holder of a sublease.

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 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.…

A refined mysticism among certain classes of Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives. [Written also sofism.]

One who holds to the principles of supernaturalism.

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

The state of being sure; certainty. For more sureness he repeats it. Woodward. The law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Emerson.

h makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security. [We] our happy state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none. Milton.