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sting such declaration. Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords. Cowell.

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

To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; as, men adhere to a party, a cause, a leader, a church.

To regard or hold; to judge; to deem. He adjudged him unworthy of his friendship. Knolles.

The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier.

e way which the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

oss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21.

Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

One who holds allodial land.

One who holds an allodium.

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

h is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain), and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook and thus retains the ship in a particular station.

A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.

cting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.

le Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become thems…

One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.

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