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land, 30 miles W. of Copenhagen. It was deftroy ed by the Norwegians, in 1290.

They boift him on the bier, and deal the dole, And there's an end. Dryden's Perf. What hafte she made to boil her purple fails! And to appear magnificent in flight, Drew half our ftrength away. Dryd. All for Love. Their navy fwarms upon the coafts: they cry To boift their anchors, but the gods deny. Dryd. Seize him, take, boift him up, break off his hold, And toss im headlong from the temple's wall. Southern. -If 'twas an ifland where they found the fhells, they ftraightway concluded that the whole island Jay originally at the bottom of the fea, and that it was beifted up by fome vapour from beneath. Woodward's Natural Hiftory.

HOIST, n.f. in fea language, denotes the perpendicular height of a flag or enfign, as oppofed to the fly, which fignifies its breadth from the ftaff to the outer edge.

HOISTING, n.. the operation of drawing up any body by the affiftance of one or more tackles. Hoifting is never applied to the act of pulling up any body by the help of a fingle block, except in the exercise of extending the fails by drawing them upwards along the mafts or ftays, to which it is invariably applied.

HOKE-DAY, HOCK-DAY, of HOCK-TUESDAY, in ancient English cuftoms (dies Martis, quem quindenam pafche vocant), the 2d Tuesday after Eafter week; a folemn festival celebrated for many ages in England, in memory of the great flaughter of the Danes, in 1002. See ENGLAND, 17. This is ftill kept up in fome counties; and the women bear the principal fway in it, ftopping all paffengers with ropes and chains, and exacting fome fmall matter from them to make merry with. This day was ufed on the fame footing with Michaelmas for a general term or time of account. We find leafes without date referving fo much rent payable ad duos anni terminos, feil. ad le hoke-day, ad feftum fandi Michaelis. In the accounts of Magdalen college, Oxford, there is yearly an allowance pro mulieribus hockantibus of fome manors of theirs in Hampshire; where the men hock the women on Mondays, and the women hock them on Tuefdays. The meaning of it is, that on that day the women in merriment ftopped the way with ropes, and pulled paffengers to them, defiring fomething to be laid out for pious ufes.

HOKE-DAY MONEY, or HOKE-TUESDAY MONEY, a tribute anciently paid the landlord, for giving his tenants and bondmen leave to celebrate hock-day, or hoke-day, in memory of the expulfion of the domineering Danes.

HO-KIEN, or a city of China, in the province HO-KIEN FOU, of Pe-tcheli, between two rivers, 87 miles S. of Pekin. It has two cities of the 2d, and 15 of the 3d clafs, in its diftrict. Lon. 133. 19. E. of Ferro. Lặt 38. 28. N.

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HOLABRUN, two towns of Auftria; 1, two miles N. of Neuburg: 2. feven miles, N. of Sonneberg.

HOLACH. See HOHENLOHE.

HOLATEN, a town of Poland in Volhynia. HOLBEACH, or a town of Lincolnshire, 12 HOLBECHE, miles S. of Bofton, and 108 N. of London.

(1.) HOLBECK, a fea-port of Denmark, in Zea

(2.) HOLBECK, a town in Yorkshire, near Leeds.

HOLBEIN, Hans or John, a celebrated painter, born at Bafil in Switzerland, in 1498. He learn ed the rudiments of his art from his father, who was alfo a painter; but foon fhowed his fuperior genius. In the town-houfe of Bafil he painted our Saviour's Paffion; and in the fish market of the fame city Death's Dance, and a Dance of Peasants, which were very much admired. Erafmus was fo pleased with them, that he defired him to draw his picture, and was ever after his friend. He ftaid fome years longer at Bafil, till his neceffities, occafioned by extravagance and an increasing family, made him comply with Erafmus's perfuafions to go to England. In his journey he ftaid fome days at Strafburg, where it is faid he applied to an eminent painter for work, who ordered him to give a fpecimen of his skill. On which Holbein finished a piece with great care, and painted a fly on the moft confpicuous part of it; after which he pri vately withdrew in the abfence of his master, and purfued his journey, without faying any thing to any body. When the painter returned home, he was aftonished at the beauty and elegance of the drawing, and especially at the fly, which he at firft took for a real one, and endeavoured to remove it with his hand. He now fent all over the city for his journeyman; but after many inquiries, difcovered that he had been thus deceived by the famous Holbein. Holbein having in a manner begged his way to England, prefented a letter of recommendation from Erafmus to Sir Thomas More, and fhowed him Erafmus's picture. Sír Thomas, being then lord chancellor, received him kindly, and kept him in his house between two and three years; in which time he drew Sir Thomas's picture, and thofe of many of his friends. Holbein one day happening to mention a nobleman who had fome years before invited him to England, Sir Thomas was very folicitous to know who it was, Holbein faid that he had forgot his title, but remembered his face fo well, that he believed he could draw liis likenefs; which he did fo perfectly, that the nobleman, it is faid, was immediately known by it. The chancellor having now adorned his apartments with the productions of this great painter, refolved to introduce him to Henry VIII. For this purpose, he invited that prince to an entertainment; having, before he came, hung up all Holbein's pieces in the great hall, in the beft order, and placed in the best light. The king, on his first entrance into this room, was fo charmed with the fight, that he afked whether fuch an artist was now alive, and to be had for money. Upon this, Sir Thomas prefented Holbein to the king, who immediately took him into his fervice, and brought him into great efteem with the nobility and gentry, by which means he drew a vaft number of portraits. While he was here, an affair happened which might have proved fatal to him, had he not been protected by the king. On the report of his character, a nobleman came to fee him when he was drawing a figure after the life. Holbein fent to defire his lordship to defer the honour of his vifit to another day; which the nableman taking

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branched out into a great number of fine ramifications like the oat, but much smaller. The feeds adhere to the stalk, and to each other after being fepa rated from it, as if mixed with cobweb, fo that they do not spread readily in fowing. But the running roots spread fo faft, that a fmall quantity, fowed very thin, would soon stock a large field.

2. HOLCUS SORGHUM, or GUINEA CORN, is the most remarkable of the foreign fpecies. The ftalks are large, compact, and full eight feet high. In Senegal the fields are entirely covered with it. The negroes, who call it guiarnot, cover the ears when ripe with its own leaves to shelter it from the fparrows. The grain made into bread is efteemed very wholefome. With this the flaves in the Weft Indies are generally fed, each being allowed from a pint to a quart every day. The juice of the stalks is fo agreeably luscious, that, if prepared as the fugar canes, they would afford an excellent fugar. The negroes on the coast of Guinea make of two kinds of millet a thickgrained pap called couscous, which is their common food.

for an affront, broke open the door, and very rudely went up stairs. Holbein hearing a noife, came out of his chamber; and meeting the lord at his door, fell into a violent paffion, and pushed him backwards from the top of the ftairs to the bottom. Immediately reflecting on what he had done; he escaped from the tumult he had raised, and made the best of his way to the king. The nobleman, much hurt, though not fo much as he pretended, was there foon after him; and upon opening his grievance, the king ordered Holbein to afk his pardon. But the nobleman would not be fatisfied with lefs than his life; upon which the king fternly replied, " My lord, you have not now to do with Holbein, but with me: whatever pu nishment you may contrive by way of revenge against him, fhall certainly be inflicted upon yourfelf. Remember, pray, my lord, that I can when ever I please make feven lords of feven ploughmen, but I cannot make one Holbein of even feven lords." Holbein died of the plague at his lodgings at Whitehall, in 1554. "It is amazing (fays De Piles), that a man born in Switzerland, and who had never been in Italy, fhould have fo(1.) * HOLD, in old gloffaries, is mentioned in good a gufto, and fo fine a genius for painting." the fame fenfe with cold, i. e, a governor or He painted alike in every manger; in frefco, in chief officer; but in fome other places for love, as water-colours, in oil, and in miniature. His ge holdic, lovely. Gibfon's Camden. nius was fufficiently fhown in the hiftorical style, by two celebrated compofitions which he painted in the hall of the Stillyard company. He was alfo eminent for a rich vein of invention, which he shewed in a multitude of defigns which he drew for engravers, ftatuaries, jewellers, &c. and he had this fingularity, that he painted with his left hand.

HOLBERG, Lewis, a Danith author, born at Bergen in Norway, in 1685. He role from a menial state to be affeffor of the Confiftory court at Copenhagen. He wrote a History of Denmark, fome comedies and mifcellanies; for which he was created a baron. He died in 1754.

HOLBURNHEAD, a cape of Scotland, on the N. coaft of Caithness. Lon. o. 9. W. of Edinburgh. Lat. 58. 35. N.

HOLCUS, INDIAN MILLET OF CORN: A genus of the monoecia order, belonging to the polygamia clafs of plants, and in the natural method ranking under the 4th order, Gramina. The calyx of the hermaphrodite is an uniflorous or biflorous glume; the corolla is a glume with an awn; there are three ftamina, two ftyles, and one feed. The male calyx is a bivalved glume; there is no corolla, but three ftamina. There are 13 fpecies, two of which are natives of Britain. The moft remarkable of thefe is

1. HOLCUS LANATUS, or the CREEPING SOFT GRASS of Hudfon. Mr Anderfon, in his Eays on Agriculture, fays, this is one of the most valuable kinds of meadow graffes: its pile being exceedingly foft, clofe, and fucculent. It delights in moifture, and is feldom found in dry ground, unless the foil be exceedingly rich. It is often found on those patches near springs, over which water often flows; and may be known by the uncommon foftnefs and fucculence of the blade, the lively light green colour of the leaves, and the matted intertexture of its roots. But notwithstanding the Loftness of its firft leaves, when the feed-ftalks ad. vance, they are rough to the touch, and the plants affume a very different appearance, The ear is VOL. XI. PART II.

(2.) HOLD has the appearance of an interjection; but is the imperative mood. Forbear; ftop; be still.

Hold, ho! lieutenant-fir-Montano! Gen-
tlemen,

Have you forgot all fenfe of place and duty?
The general speaks to you-bold, bold, for fhame!
Shakespeare.

Hold, hold! are all thy empty wishes fuch!
A good old woman would have faid as much.
Dryden.

(3.)* HOLD. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. The act of feizing; gripe; grasp; feizure. It is used with great frequency, both literally and figuratively, both for manual and intellectual agency. The verbs with which it is oftenest united, are take, lag, and have.-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. Spenfer on Ireland.-The wits of the multitude are fuch, that many things they cannot lay hold on at once. Hooker.-Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen fhook it. 2 Sam. vi.. 6.—

This is to give him liberty and power; Rather thou fhould'ft lay hold upon him, fend

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fingly, which we call the thumb, to join with them feverally or united, whereby it is fitted to lay hold of objects of any fize or quantity. RayYet then, from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy fet me free,

Whilft, in the confidence of pray'r, My foul took hold on thee.

Addifon.

-We are strangely backward to lay hold of this Cafe, this only method of cure. Atterbury.

He kept his bold,

Nor loft 'till beauty was decay'd and old, And love was by poffeffion pall'd and cold. Granville. 2. Something to be held; fupport.-If a man be upon an high place, without rails or good bold, he is ready to fall. Bacon. 3. Power of keeping. On your vigour now,

My hold of this new kingdom all depends. Milt. 4. Catch; power of feizing.

The law hath yet another hold on you. Shak. 5. Prifon; place of cuftody.-They lay him in bold, because it was not declared what was to be done with him. Hooker.

The prifoner to his bold retir'd. Dryden. -They laid hands on them, and put them in bold unto the next day. Ads. 6. Cuftody.

Shakespeare.

King Richard, he is in the mighty hold Of Bolingbroke. 7. Power; influence operating on the mind.Rural recreations abroad, and books at home, are the innocent pleasures of a man who is early wife, and gives fortune no more hold of him than of neceffity he muft. Dryd.-Fear is that paffion which hath the greateft power over us, and by which God and his laws take the fureft hold of us. Till. -Let it confift with an unbeliever's intereft and fafety to wrong you, and then it will be impoffible you can have any hold upon him, because there is nothing left to give him a check, or to put in the balance againft his profit. Swift. 8. HOLD of a Ship. All that part which lies between the keelfon and the lower deck. Harris.

Now a fea into the bold was got, Wave upon wave another fea had wrought. Dryden. 9. A lurking place: as, the hold of a wild beaft or deer. 10. A fortified place; a fort; a fafe refidence. It was his policy to leave no hold behind him, but make all plain and waste. Spenfer.-These feparated themselves unto David, into the bold to the wilderness, men of might. Chron.-He fhall deftroy the ftrong holds. Jeremiah.

(4.) HOLD(S3, def. 8.) is the whole interior cavity, or belly of a fhip, or all that part of her infide which is comprehended between the floor and the lower deck throughout her whole length.This capacious apartment ufually contains the ballaft, provifions, and ftores of a fhip of war, and the principal part of the cargo in a merchantman. The difpofition of thefe articles with regard to each other, naturally falls under confideration in the article STOWAGE; it fuffices in this place to fay, that the places where the ballast water, provisions, and liquors are ftowed, are known by the general name of the hold. The feveral ftore-rooms are separated from each other by bulk-heads, and are denominated according to the articles which

(1.) To HOLD. v. a. preter. held; part. pass. beld or bolden. [haldan, Gothick; baldan, Saxon; henden, Dutch.] 1. To grafp in the hands; to gripe: to clutch.-Lift up the lad, bold him in thy hand. Genefis.-,

France, thou may'st hold a ferpent by the

tongue,

A fafting tyger safer by the tooth,

Than keep in peace that hand which thou do'ft bold. Shak.

2. To connect; to keep from feparation.-The loops held one curtain to another. Exod. xxxvi. 12. 3. To keep; to retain; to gripe faft; not to let go.Too late it was for fatyr to be told, Or ever hope recover her again; In vain he feeks that, having cannot hold. Fairy Queen. -Prove all things: hold faft that which is good. 2 Thef. v. 4. To maintain as an opinion.-Thou haft there them that bold the doctrine of Balaam. Rev. 5. To confider; to regard.

I as a stranger to my heart and me, Hold thee from this for ever. Shak. King Lear. 6. To think of; to judge with regard to praise or blame.

I hold him but a fool, that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.

Shak

One amongst the fairest of Greece, That holds his honour higher than his ease. Shak. This makes the bleffed peace fo light to bold, Like fummer's flies that fear not winter's cold. Fairfax.

Hold fuch in reputation. Philipp. He would make us amends, and fpend fome time with us, if we held his company and conference agreeable. Bacon.-As Chaucer is the father of English poetry, fo I hold him in the same degree of vene. ration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. Dryden.-'

Ye Latian dames, if any here

Hold your unhappy queen Amata dear! Dryden. 7. To receive, and keep in a veffel.

She tempers dulcet creams, nor these to hold Wants her fit veffels pure.

Milton.

8. To contain; to receive into its capacity: as, a hogshead holds 63 gallons; the fack is too little to hold the grain. 9. To keep; not to spill.Broken cifterns that can hold no water. Jerem. 10. To keep; to hinder from escape.

For this infernal pit fhall never hold Celestial fpirits in bondage.

11. To keep from spoil; to defend.With what arms

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Obferve the youth who first appears in fight, And bolds the nearest station to the light. Dryd. 14. To poffefs; to have.

Holding Corioli in the name of Rome, Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash, To let him flip at will.

Shak. -The caftle, bolden by a garrifon of Germans, he commanded to be befieged. Knolles's Hiftory.-Affuredly it is more fhame for a man to lose that which he boldeth, than to fail in getting that which he never had. Hayw. 15. To poffefs in fubordination. He was willing to yield himself unto Solyman as his vaffal, and of him to hold his feigniory for a yearly tribute. Knolles.

The terms too hard by which I was to hold The good. Milton. 16. To fufpend; to refrain. Men in the midst of their own blood, and so furiously affailed, beld their hands, contrary to the laws of nature and neceffity. Bacon.

Death! what do'ft! O hold thy blow! What thou do'ft, thou do'ft not know.Crafbaw. 17. To ftop; to restrain.—

We cannot hold morality's ftrong hand. Shak. Fell, banning hag! inchantress, bold thy tongue. Shak. When straight the people, by no force.compell'd,

Nor longer from their inclination held, Break forth at once. Waller. Unless thou find'st occafion bold thy tongue; Thyfelf or others, carelefs talk may wrong. Denham. -Hold your laughter, then divert your fellowfervants. Swift's Direction to the Footman. 18. To fix to any conditiony

His gracious promise you might, As caufe had call'd you up, have held him to. Shak.

19. To keep'; to fave.

Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity Is beld from failing with so weak a wind, That it will quickly drop: my day is dim. Shak. 20. To confine to a certain state.-The Moft High then fhewed figns for them, and held ftill the flood, till they were paffed over. 2 Efdr. xiii. 14. 21. To detain; to keep in confinement or fubjection.-Him God hath raised up, having loofed the pains of death, because it was not poffible that he should be holden of it. A&s. 22. To retain; to continue.

These reasons moy'd her far-like husband's heart;

But ftill he held his purpose to depart. Dryden. 23. To practife with continuance.

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Dryden.

27. To manage; to handle intellectually.-Some in their difcourfe defire rather commendation of wit, în being able to hold all arguments, than of judgment in difcerning what is true. Bacon, 28. To maintain.Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and held them battle for a long feafon. I Mac. vi. 52. 29. To carry on conjunctively.-The Pharifees held a council against him. Matthew.Milton.

A while difcourse they bold. 30. To profecute; to continuê.-He came to the land's end, where he holding his course towards the weft, did at length peaceably pass through the ftraits. Abbot. 31. To HOLD forth. To offer; to exhibit; to propose.-Christianity came into the world with the greatest fimplicity of thought and language, as well as life and manners, bolding forth nothing but piety, charity, and humility, with the belief of the Meffiah and of his kingdom. Temple-Obferve the connection of ideas in the propofitions, which books bold forth and pretend to teach as truths. Locke.-My account is fo far from interfering with Mofes, that it holds forth a natural interpretation of his fenfe. Woodward 32. To HOLD forth. To pretend; to put forward to view. How joyful and pleasant a thing is it to have a light beld us forth from heaven to direct our steps? Cheyne. 33. To HOLD in. To restrain; to govern by the bridle.I have lately fold my nag, and honeftly told his greatest fault, which is, that he became fuch a lover of liberty that I could fcarce hold him in. Swift. 34. To HOLD in. To reftrain in general. These men's haftiness the warier fort of you doth not commend; ye with they had held themselves longer in, and not fo dangeroully flown abroad. Hooker. 35. To HOLD off. To keep at a distance.—

Although 'tis fit that Caffio have his place; Yet if you please to hold him off a while, You fhall by that perceive him. Shak. Othello. -The object of fight doth strike upon the pupil of the eye directly, without any interception; whereas the cave of the ear doth hold off the found a little from the organ. Bacon.-I am the better acquainted with you for abfence, as men are with themselves for affliction: abfence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him truly. Pope to Swift. 36. To HOLD on. To continue; to protract; to push forward.-They took Barbaroffa, bolding on his courfe to Africk, who brought great fear upon the country. Knolles's Hiftory.-If the obedience challenged were indeed due, then did our brethren both begin the quarrel and hold it on. SanderJan. 37. To HOLD out. To extend; to ftretch forth. The King held out to Efther the golden fceptre that was in his hand. Efth. v. 2. 38. To HOLD out. To offer; to propose.

Fortune holds out these to you, as rewards. Ben Jonfon. 39. TO HOLD out. To continue to do or fuffer.He cannot long bold out these pangs,

Th' inceffant care and labour of his mind. Shak. 40. To HOLD up. To raise aloft.-I fhould remember him; does he not hold up head, as it were, and strut in his gait? Shakespeare.-The hand of Bbb 2

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the Almighty visibly held up, and prepared to take vengeance. Looke. 41. TO HOLD up. To fuftain; to fupport by influence or contrivance.-There is no man at once either excellently good onextremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue, or lets himself slide to viciousness. Sidney. It followeth, that all which they do in this fort proceedeth originally from fome fuch agent as knoweth, appointeth, boldeth up, and actually frameth the fame. Hooker.

The time miforder'd doth in common fenfe Crowd us, and crush us to this monftrous form, To hold our fafety up. Shakefp.

And fo fuccefs of mifchief fhall be borne, › And heir from heir shall hold his quarrel up. Shakespeare. Those princes have held up their fovereignty beft, which have been fparing in those grants. Davies on Ireland

Then do not strike him dead with a denial, But hold him up in life, and cheer his foul With the faint glimmering of a doubtful hope. -Addison's Cato.

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proper for the colouring as the defign; but it will bold for both. Dryden,—Our author offers no reafon; and when any body does, we shall fee whe ther it will hold or no. Locke. The rule holds in land as well as all other commodities. Løske.— This feems to hold in most cases. Addison.—The analogy holds good, and precisely keeps to the fame properties in the planets and comets. Cheyne. Sanctorius's experiment of perfpiration, being to the other fecretion as five to three, does not bold in this country, except in the hottest time of fummer. Arbuthnot on: Aliments.———

In words, as fashions, the fame rule will hold ; Alike fantaftick, if too new or old. Pope.

2. To contiñué unbroken or unsubdued.—

Our force by land hath nobly held. Shakefp. 13. Torlalt; to endure. We fee, by the peeling of onions, what a bolding substance the skin is. Bacon.— Never any man was yet so old,

But hop'd his life one winter more might beld. Denham. 4. To continue without variation.We our ftate

Milton. He did not hold in this mind long. L'Eftrange. 5. To refrain!.

42. To keep from falling; materially-We have oft-Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds. en made one confiderably thick piece of marble take and bold up another, having purposely caused their flat furfaces to be carefully ground and polifhed. Boyle.h

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(2)*To HOLD. v. n. 1. Toftand; to be right; to be without exception. To say, that fimply an argument, taken from man's authority, doth bold no way, neither affirmatively nor negatively, is hard. Hooker. This boldeth not in the fea-coafts. Bacon. The lafting of plants is most in those that are largest of body; as oak, elm, and chefnut, and this boldeth in trees; but in herbs it is often contrary. Bacon.-When the religion formerly received is rent by discords, 'and when the holiness of the profeffors of religion is decayed, and full of fcandal, and withal the times be ftupid, ignorant, and barbarous, you may doubt the fpringing up of a new fect; if then alfo there fhould arife any extravagant and ftrange fpirit, to make himself author thereof; all which points held when Mahomet published his law. Bacon.-Nothing can be of greater ufe and defence to the mind, than the difcovering of the colours of good and evil, fhewing in what cafes they bold, and in what they deceive. Bacon.

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None of his folutions will hold by mere mechanicks. More. This unfeèn agitation of the minute parts will hold in light and fpirituous liquors. Boyle. The drift of this figure holds good in all the parts of the creation. L'Estrange. The reafons given by them against the worship of images, will equal ly bold against the worthip of images amongst Chriftians. Stillingfleet. It holds in all operative principles whatsoever, but especially in fuch as relate to morality; in which not to proceed, is certainly to go backward. South.

The proverb holds, that to be wife and love, Is hardly granted to the gods above. Dryd. Fab. As if th' experiment were made to hold For base production, and reject the gold. Dryd. This remark, 1 muft acknowledge, is not to

His dauntless heart would fain have held From weeping, but his eyes rebell'd. Dryden. 6. To ftand up for; to adhere.-Through envy of the devil came death into the world, and they that do hold of his fide to find it. Wid. ii. 24They muft, if they hold to their principles, agree that things had their production always as now they have. Hale

When Granada for your uncle held, You was by us reftor'd, and he expell'd. Drød.

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With the fair freckled king and beard of gold: So vig'rous are his eyes, fuch rays they caft, So prominent his eagle's beak is plac'd. Dryden. 7. To be dependent on. The other two were great princes, thou holding of him; men both of giant-like hugenefs and force. Sidney.-The mother, if the house holds of the lady, had rather, yea and will, have her fon cunning and bold. Afcham. The great barons had not only great numbers of knights, but even petty barons holding under them. Temple.

My crown is abfolute, and holds of none. Dryd. 8. To derive right.

'Tis true, from force the noblest title fprings; I therefore bold from that which first made kings. Dryden.

9. To maintain an opinion. Men bold and profefs without ever having examined. Locke. 10. To HOLD forth. To harangue; to speak in publick; to fet forth publickly.-A petty conjuror, telling fortunes, held forth in the market-place. L'Er. 11. To HOLD in. To reftrain one's felf. I am full of the fury of the Lord: I am weary with bolding in. Fer. vi. 11. 12. TO HOLD in. To continue in luck.-A duke, playing at hazard, held in a great many hands together. Swift. 13. To HOLD off. To keep at a diftance without clefing with offers. These are interests important enough, and yet we must be wooed to confider them: nay, that does not prevail neither, but with a perverfe

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