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a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year. A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator. Addison.

To practice making music with bells. Holder.

r allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank,…

A case or holder made of fire clay, in which fine pottery is inclosed while baking in the kin. [Written also saggar, sagger, and segger.] Ure.

rom it. If government, however, throws the expense of coinage, as is reasonable, upon the holders, by making a charge to cover the expense (which is done by giving back rather less in coin than has been received in bullion, and is called "levying a seigniorage"), the coin will rise to the extent of the seigniorage abov…

To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder. As people marry now and settle. Prior.

The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

out one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow.

One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak.

A female beholder or looker-on. "A spectatress of the whole scene." Jeffrey.

umps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.

ressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts. Holder.

By means of the breath. [Obs.] Holder.

A small landholder. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A handle or wrench forming a holder for the dies for cutting screws; a diestock.

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…

A holder of a sublease.

Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder. "Substantial yeomen and burghers." Sir W. Scott.

piece of ground, bearing a strong resemblance to the long building leases granted by landholders in England, in consideration of a rent, and under reservation of the ownership of the soil. Bouvier. Wharton.

Survivorship. [R.] His son had the survivance of the stadtholdership. Bp. Burnet.