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ll under the same roof and compose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift.

of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

A hundred times as much or as many. He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30.

See Embolden.

To mold into shape, or form. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

To wrap up or cover with folds; to envelop; to inwrap; to inclose; to involve. Gilded tombs do worms infold. Shak. Infold his limbs in bands. Blackmore.

The act of infolding; the state of being infolded.

To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

An inhabitant. [Obs.] Spenser.

One who keeps an inn.

Intertwined; interlocked; clasped together. Longfellow.

See Gimmal.

See Gimmal.

Cold as a metallic key; lifeless. [Formerly, a proverbial expression.] Shak. Milton.

A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.

A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. -- Land"hold`ing, n. & a.

Held by lease.

A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. & n.

Land held by a life estate.

See Mangel-wurzel.