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imp. & p. p. of Hold.

imp. & p. p. of Behold.

Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald. [Prov. Eng.]

A chaffinch. [Written also sheldapple, and shellapple.]

The common sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]

Any one of several species of large Old World ducks of the genus Tadorna and allied genera, especially the European and Asiatic species. (T. cornuta, or tadorna), which somewhat resembles a goose in form and habit, but breeds in burrows.

The sheldrake. [Written also shellduck.]

imp. & p. p. of Uphold.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

den or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

d into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

One who held the real presence of Christ's body in the eucharist, but not by transubstantiation.

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

ormerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.

Held to service as attached to the soil; -- said of feudal serfs.

A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.

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

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.