I went forth, myself, alone boldily Chaucer. The Cuckowe and the Nightingale. If the obedience challenged were indeed due, then did our brethren both begin the quarrel and hold it on. Saunders. To hold out. To extend; to stretch forth. To hold out. To offer; to propose. To hold up. To raise aloft. Shakspeare. I should remember him: does he not hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait? Shakspeare. The hand of the Almighty visibly held up, and prepared to take vengeance. Locke. The reasons given by them against the worship of images, will equally hold against the worship of images among Christians. Stilling fleet. The proverb holds, that to be wise and love Dryden's Fables. Dryden. This remark, I must acknowledge, is not so proper for the colouring as the design, but it will hold for both. Id. The drift of this figure holds good in all the parts of the creation. L'Estrange. Our author offers no reason; and, when any body does, we shall see whether it will hold or no. Locke. The rule holds in land as well as all other commodities. Id. To hold up. To sustain; to support by in- especially in such as relate to morality; in which not It holds in all operative principles whatsoever, but fluence or contrivance. It followeth, that all which they do in this sort proceedeth originally from some such agent as knoweth, appointeth, holdeth up, and actually frameth the same. Hooker. The time misordered doth in common sense Crowd us, and crush us to this monstrous form, To hold our safety up. Shakspeare. And so success of mischief shall be borne, There is no man at once either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue, or lets himself slide to viciousness. Sidney. To say that simply an argument, taken from man's authority, doth hold no way, neither affirmatively nor negatively, is hard. Hooker. Bacon. This holdeth not in the sea-coasts. The lasting of plants is inost in those that are largest of body; as oak. elm, and chesnut, and this holdeth in trees; but in herbs it is often contrary. Id. When the religion formerly received is rent by discords, and when the holiness of the professors of re. ligion is decayed, and full of scandal, and withal the times be stupid, ignorant, and barbarous, you may doubt the springing up of a new sect; if then also there should arise any extravagant and strange spirit, to proceed, is certainly to go backward. South. Addison. This seems to hold in most cases. Sanctorius's experiment of perspiration, being to the other secretion as five to three, does not hold in this country, except in the hottest time of Summer. Arbuthnot on Aliments. The analogy holds good, and precisely keeps to the same properties in the planets and comets. Cheyne. Pope. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; To continue unbroken or unsubdued. To last; to endure. Shakspeare. His dauntless heart would fain have held When Granada for your uncle held, Dryden Numbers hold I would cry now, my eyes grow womanish; But yet my heart holds out. The mother, if the house holds of the lady, had rather, yea and will, have her son cunning and bold. Ascham. The other two were great princes, though holding of ; men both of giant-like hugeness and force. him Sidney. The great barons had not only great numbers of knights, but even petty barons holding under them. Dryden. To maintain an opinion. To hold forth. To harangue; to speak in public; to set forth publicly. A petty conjurer, telling fortunes, held forth in the market-place. L'Estrange. To hold in. To restrain one's self. I am full of the fury of the Lord : I am weary with holding in. Jer. vi. 11. To hold in. To continue in luck. A duke, playing at hazard, held in a great many hands together. Swift. To hold off. To keep at a distance without closing with offers. These are interests important enough, and yet we must be wooed to consider them; nay, that does not prevail neither, but with a perverse coyness we hold off. Decay of Piety. To hold on. To continue; not to be interrupted. The trade held on for many years after the bishops became Protestants; and some of their names are still remembered with infamy, on account of enriching their families by such sacrilegious alienations. Swift. To hold on. To proceed. He held on, however, 'till he was upon the very point of breaking. L'Estrange. To hold out. To last; to endure. Before those dews that form manna come upon trees in the valleys, they dissipate, and cannot hold out. Bacon. As there are mountebanks for the natural body, so are there mountebanks for the politick body; men that perhaps have been lucky in two or three experiments, but want the grounds of science, and therefore cannot hold out. Id. Truth, fidelity, and justice, are a sure way of thriv ing, and will hold out, when all fraudulent arts and devices will fail. Tillotson. By an extremely exact regimen a consumptive person may hold out for years, if the symptoms are not violent. Arbuthnot. To hold out. Not to yield; not to be subdued. The great master went with his company to a place where the Spaniards, sore charged by Achimetes, had much ado to hold out. Knolles's History. You think it strange a person, obsequious to those ne loves, should hold out so long against importunity. Boyle. Nor could the hardest ir'n hold out· Hudibras. Dryden's Spanish Friar. The citadel of Milan has held out formerly, after the conquest of the rest of the duchy. Addison, Pronounce your thoughts: are they still fixt To hold it out, and fight it to the last? Or are your hearts subdued at length, and wrought, By time and ill success, to a submission? Id. As to the holding out against so many alterations of state, it sometimes proceeds from principles. Collier on Pride. To hold together. To be joined. Those old Gothick castles made at several times, hold together only, as it were, by rags and patches. Dryden. To hold together. To remain in union. Even outlaws and robbers, who break with all the world besides, must keep faith amongst themselves, or else they cannot hold together. To hold up. To support himself. Locke. All the wise sayings which philosophers could muster up, have helped only to support some few stout and obstinate minds, which, without the assistance of philosophy, could have held up pretty well of themselves. To hold up. Not to be foul weather. Tillotson. Hudibras. To hold up. To continue the same speed. When two start into the world together, the success of the first seems to press upon the reputation of the latter; for why could not he hold up? Collier of Envy. To hold with. To adhere to; to co-operate with. There is none that holdeth with me in these things but Michael. Daniel. HOLD has the appearance of an interjection; but is the imperative mood. Forbear; stop; be still. Hold, ho! lieutenant-sir-Montano! Gentlemen, Hold, hold! are all thy empty wishes such! Dryden. The act of HOLD, n. s. From the verb. seizing; gripe; grasp; seizure. It is used with both for manual and intellectual agency. The great frequency, both literally and figuratively, verbs with which it is oftenest united are take, lay, and have. Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. 2 Sam. vi. 6. Those bards delivered no certain truth of any thing; neither is there any certain hold to be taken of any antiquity which is received by tradition. Spenser on Irelana. The wits of the multitude are such, that many things they cannot lay hold on at once. Hooker This is to give him liberty and power: Let but them Ben Jonson. Find courage to lay hold on this occasion. He seized the shining bough with griping hold, And rent away with ease the lingering gold. Dryden. The devil himself, when let loose upon Job, could not transport that patient good man beyond his temper, or make him quit his hold. L'Estrange. The hand is divided into four fingers bending forwards, and one opposite to them bending backwards, and of greater strength than any of them singly, which we call the thumb, to join with them severally or united, whereby it is fitted to lay hold of objects of any size or quantity. Ray on the Creation. Yet then, from all my grief, O Lord. Addison. Whilst in the confidence of prayer, My soul took hold on thee. We are strangely backward to lay hold of this safe, this only method of cure. Atterbury. He kept his hold, Nor lost 'till beauty was decayed and old, Something to be held; support. For in Northumberland, the wave hire cast, It was his policy to leave no hold behind him; but make all plain and waste. Spenser. HOLD, is the whole interior cavity or belly of a ship, or all that part of her inside which is comprehended between the floor and the lower deck throughout her whole length. This capacious apartment usually contains the ballast, provisions, and stores of a ship of war, and the principal part of the cargo in a merchantman. each other, naturally falls under consideration in The disposition of these articles with regard to the article STOWAGE; it suffices in this place to say, that the places where the ballast, water, provisions, and liquors are stowed, are known by the general name of the hold. The several storerooms are separated from each other by bulk If a man be upon an high place, without rails or heads, and are denominated according to the good hold, he is ready to fall. Power of keeping. On your vigor now Bacon. Rural recreations abroad, and books at home, are the innocent pleasures of a man who is early wise; and give fortune no more hold of him than of necessity he must. Dryden. Let it consist with an unbeliever's interest and safety to wrong you, and then it will be impossible you can have any hold upon him, because there is nothing left to give him a check, or to put in the balance against his profit. Swift. Hold of a ship. All that part which lies between the keelson and the lower deck. Now a sea into the hold was got, Wave upon wave another sea had wrought. Dryden. Again the weather threatened,-again blew A gale, and in the fore and after hold Water appeared. Byron. Don Juan. A lurking place: as the hold of a wild beast or deer. articles which they contain, the sail-room, the bread-room, the fish-room, the spirit-room, &c. HOLD'ER, n. s. One that retains any HOLD'ER-FORTH, n. s. (thing in his hand; a HOLD-FAST, n. s. tenant who holds lands under another Holder HOLD'ING, forth, a public speaker, a preacher, or haranguer. Hold-fast, any thing which takes hold, as a hook or catch. Holding, a tenure; a farm; the burden or chorus of a song. The holding every man shall beat as loud As his strong sides can volley. Shakspears. In times past holdings were so plentiful, and holders so scarce, as well was the landlord, who could not get Carew. one to be his tenant. Whence some tub holdersforth have made In powdering tubs the richest trade. Hudibras, The several teeth are furnished with holdfasts suitable to the stress that they are put to. Ray. The makers and holders of plows are wedded to their own particular way. Mortimer. He was confirmed in this opinion upon seeing the holder forth. Addison, HOLDER (William), D. D. and F. R. S., a learned author, born in Nottinghamshire, and educated in Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. In 1642 he became rector of Blechingdon, Oxford; in 1660 Doctor of Divinity; was afterwards canon of Ely and St. Paul's, and sub-dean and subalmoner to king Charles II. He distinguished himself by teaching a young gentleman to speak who was born deaf and dumb, viz. Alexander Popham, son of colonel Edward Popham, who was some time an admiral in the service of the long parliament. Dr. Wallis however completed this task; for young Popham, having forgotten a great part of Holder's instructions, was sent to the doctor who restored him to the use of his speech. Holder published a book entitled The Elements of Speech; an essay of enquiry into the natural Production of Letters: with an appendix concerning persons that are deaf and dumb, 1669, 8vo. In the appendix he relates by what methods he brought Popham to speak. In 1678 he published in 4to. a Supplement to the Philosophical Transactions of July 1670, with some reflections on Dr. Wallis's letter there inserted. This was written to claim the glory of having taught Popham to speak, which Dr. 'Wallis in the above letter had arrogated to himself; upon which Waliis published a Defence of the Royal Society, and the Philosophical Transactions, particularly those of July 1670, in answer to the cavils of Dr. William Holder, 1678, 4to. Holder was skilled in the theory and practice of music, and wrote a Treatise of the natural Grounds and Principles of Harmony, 1694, 8vo. He wrote also a Discourse concerning Time, with Application of the natural Day, lunar Month, and solar Year, &c. 1694, 8vo. He died at London, January 24th, 1696-7. HOLDSWORTH (Edward), a polite and elegant scholar, born about 1688, and trained at Winchester school. He was thence elected demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, in July 1705, took the degree of M. A. in April 1711, became a college tutor, and had many pupils. In 1715, when he was to be chosen a fellow, he left the college, because he would not swear allegiance to the new government. The remainder of his life was spent in travelling with young noblemen as a tutor in 1741 and 1744 he was at Rome in this capacity. He died of a fever at lord Digby's house at Coleshill, December 30th, 1747. He wrote, 1. Muscipula, a poem, of which there is a good English translation by Dr. John Hoadley, in vol. 5 of Dr. Dodsley's Miscellanies. 2. Pharsalia and Philippi; or the two Philippi in Virgil's Georgics attempted to be explained and reconciled to History, 1741, 4to. 3. Remarks and Dissertations on Virgil, published with several notes and additional remarks by Mr. Spence, 1768, 4to. HOLE, n. s. HOLLOW, adj. n. s. & v. a. HOLLOW-HEARTED, adj.¦ HOL'LOWLY, adv. HOL'LOWNESS, n. s. Goth. Sax. and Dut, hol; Teut. hohl. A cavity, perpendicular or otherwise; a perHOL'LOW-ROOT, n. s. foration; a cave; cell; mean habitation: arm-hole, the cavity under the shoulder. Hollow, excavated; this respects the body itself; the absence of its own materials produces hollowness: these words are used in a figurative sense; applied to sound, noisy, like reverberations from a cavity to character, unfaithful; insincere; dishonest; treache rous. Hollow-root, a plant. He touched the hollow of his thigh. Gen. xxii. 25. But through the verger he hath sought Chaucer. Romaunt of the Rose. Id. The Chanones Yemannes Tale. Shakspeare. When Alexander first beheld the face Of the great cynick, thus he did lament: How much more happy thou, that art content To live within this little hole, than I Upon his bloody finger he doth wear A precious ring, that lightens all the hole. You shall arraign your conscience, Id. A tortoise spends all his days in a hole, with a house upon his head. L'Estrange. People, young and raw, and soft natured, think it an easy thing to gain love, and reckon their own friendship a sure price of any man's; but when experience shall have shewn them the hardness of most hearts, the hollowness of others, and the baseness and ingratitude of almost all, they will then find that a friend is the gift of God, and that he only who made hearts can unite them. South. Multitudes were employed in the sinking of wells, and the hollowing of trees. Spectator. I have frighted ants with my fingers, and pursued them as far as another hole, stopping all passages to their own nest, and it was natural for them to fly into the next hole. Addison. A fine genius for gardening thought of forming such an unsightly hollow into so uncommon and agree HOLERACEÆ, from holus, pot-herbs, the name of the twelfth order in Linnæus's fragments of a natural method, consisting of plants which are used for the table, and enter into the economy of domestic affairs. See BOTANY. HOLIDAY (Dr. Barten), a learned divine and poet, was the son of a tailor in Oxford, and born there about 1593. He studied at Christ Church College, and in 1615 took orders. He had been admired for his skill in poetry and oratory: and now, distinguishing himself by his eloquence as a preacher, he obtained two hene fices in the diocese of Oxford. In 1618 he went as chaplain to Sir Francis Stewart, when he accompanied Count Gondamore to Spain. Afterwards he became chaplain to the king; and before 1626 was made archdeacon of Oxford. In 1642 he took the degree of D. D. at Oxford; near which place he sheltered himself during the rebellion; but after the Restoration returned to his archdeaconry, where he died in 1661. His works are, twenty sermons, published at different times; Philosophiæ politobarbaræ specimen, 4to.; Survey of the world, a poem in ten books, 8vo.; A translation of Juvenal and Persius; Technogamia, or the Marriage of the Arts, a comedy. HOLILY, adv. Sax.halig; Dut. heyligh; Goth. holg, from pal, healthy, or whole, or in a state of salvation: in Gr. ayıos; Lat. sanctus. Holy and holiness, derived from the northern languages, have now altogether a Christian signification, as referrible principally to the life and temper of a Christian; and typically to religious acts, ceremonies, and places: it is principally to the mind what sanctity is to the outward garb; the latter may be counterfeited, the former cannot it has, however, been used. in a more extended sense as good; pious; consecrated; inviolable. Holiness is the titular appellation of the pope of Rome : holy-ghost, Sax. halig and gart, the third person in the adorable Trinity: holy Thursday, the day on which the ascension of Christ is commemorated; ten days before Whitsunday holy-week, the week before Easter, called also Passion-week: holy-day, corrupted to holiday, the day of ecclesiastical festival; anniversary feast; a day of gaiety and joy; a time that comes seldom. And, plainly and generally, Sacrilege is to reve holy thing fro holy place; or unholy thing, out of holy place; or holy thing out of unholy place. Chaucer. The Persones Tale. This foule sinne is platly ayenst the Holy Gost. Al be it so that every sinne is ayenst the Holy Gost; yet, natheles, for as moche as bountee apperteineth proprely to the Holy Gost, and envie cometh, proprely of malice; therefore, it is proprely aycnst the bountee of the Holy Gost. Id. Shortly therein so perfect he became That, from the first unto the last degree, His mortal life he learned had to frame In holy righteousnesse without rebuke or blame. Spenser. Faerie Queene. This victory was so welcome unto the Persians, that in memorial thereof they kept that day as one of their solemn holy-days for many years after. Knolles's History. I here appeal unto the pope, To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness. Shakspeare. State, holy or unhallowed, what of that? Id. See where his grace stands 'tween two clergymen ! And see a book of prayer in his hand! True ornaments to know a holy man. Id. Id. Id. An evil soul producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Ill it doth beseem your holiness To separate the husband and the wife. Thou would'st be great, Art not without ambition; but without The illness should attend it: what thou would'st highly, That would'st thou holily. Id. What, have I 'scaped love-letters in the holiday time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them? Like holy Phoebus' car. Id. He has deserved it, were it carbuncled Id. Antony and Cleopatra. And, doubling that, most holy. With joy he will embrace you; for he's honourable, Id. Cymbeline. Religion is rent by discords, and the holiness of the professors is decayed, and full of scandal. Bacon. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. Milton. |