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an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

To take or seize; to take hold of. [Archaic] We have two hands to apprehended it. Jer. Taylor.

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne.

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

The quality an apron can hold.

r framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. Oxf. Gloss.

As much as the arm can hold.

One who holds the tenets of Arminius, a Dutch divine (b. 1560, d. 1609).

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention. Buckminster.

ading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations, . . . no man could possibly hold an ascendent position. Grote.

To behold; to look at. [Obs.]

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor.

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.

The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong. Dryden.

One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory. Locke.

To take, seize, or lay hold of. [Obs.] Shak.