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A person who holds a bill or acceptance.

on; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited…

A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

See Blanch holding.

The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]

A hole in the ice to which whales, seals, etc., come to breathe.

A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.

A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.

A headborough; a borsholder.

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

n a contest; an abettor; a backer. [Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

Same as Fibrolite.

See Bung, n., 2. Shak.

The hole or loop in which a button is caught.

An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

See Borneol.

One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.

See Flaccillation.

One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.

Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries [came] to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey.