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The burden or chorus of a song. [Obs.] Shak. Holding note (Mus.), a note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.

Obliged; beholden. [Obs.] I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

, The state of being obliged or beholden. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

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

See Blanch holding.

Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Not possessing or holding slaves; as, a nonslaveholding State.

Holding persons in slavery.

A board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. Jer. Taylor.

One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist. Hume.

higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

Among the ancients, a two-handled vessel, tapering at the bottom, used for holding wine, oil, etc.

A name sometimes applied to a member of any sect holding that rebaptism is necessary for those baptized in infancy.

A metal tie holding adjoining parts of a building together.

le Culex are very short. They also assume different positions when resting, Culex usually holding the body parallel to the surface on which it rests and keeping the head and beak bent at an angle, while Anopheles holds the body at an angle with the surface and the head and beak in line with it. Unless they become thems…

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

A frame, generally vertical, for holding small arms.

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