holethnos 
termed the Aryan holefhnos, in contradistinction to its 
later representatives as marked off by such lines of dis- 
tinction as are found between Hindoos and Greeks, and 
between the latter and Teutons or Celts. The Academy. 
Holetra (ho-le'tra), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. Mor, 
entire, whole, + i/rpov, abdomen.] A term ap- 
plied by Herman (1807) to a division of trache- 
ate arachnidans, including both the harvestmeii 
and the mites, forming the present orders I'lia- 
Iniigida and Afariila. 
holewort (hol'wert), . Same as hollowwort. 
holibut, holibutter. See halibut, halibutter. 
holidamct, n. A form of halidom, simulating 
holy dame. See halidom. 
holiday (hol'i-da), H. and a. [Formerly also 
holliday, holyday; < ME. holiday, haliday (= 
Dan. hi'lligdag = Sw. helgdag), usually written 
separately, holi day, holy day, hali day, etc. (the 
vowel of holy being shortened as in halibut), < 
AS. hdligda-g, 'holyday': see holy and day 1 . Cf. 
holinight.] I. n. 1. A consecrated day ; a re- 
ligious anniversary ; a day set apart for com- 
memorating some important event or in honor 
of some person. 
Every holliday through the yeere. 
Changed shall thy garment be. 
Robin Hood and the Curtail Fryer (Child's Ballads, 
[V. 278). 
The holiest of all holidays are those 
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, 
The secret anniversaries of the heart. 
Longfellow, Holidays. 
2. An occasion of joy and gaiety. 
In Heav'n, one Holy.day, you read 
In wise Auacreon, Ganymede 
Drew heedless Cupid in. 
Prior, Cupid and Ganymede. 
My approach has made a little holiday, 
And every face was dress'd in smiles to meet me. 
Rowc, Jane Shore, v. 1. 
3. A day of exemption from labor, or of recre- 
ation and amusement; a day or a number of 
days during which ordinary occupations are 
suspended, either by an individual or by a com- 
munity. 
Necessitee nath never haliday : 
Take hede on that. 
Palladins, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 7. 
If all the year were playing holidays, 
To sport would be as tedious as to work. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., 1. 2. 
4. Naut., a spot carelessly left uncoated in tar- 
ring or painting a ship or its appurtenances. 
Blindman's holiday. See Uindman. Legal holiday, 
a secular day which the law allows, for some purposes at 
least, to be treated like Sunday in reference to the suspen- 
sion of business. The phrase is commonly applied to those 
days which by statute are treated like Sunday, in reference 
to the presentment, for payment or acceptance, and the 
protest and notice of dishonor, of negotiable paper, and 
for the purpose of closing public offices with this quali- 
fication, however, that paper falling due on such a legal 
holiday is usually to be presented on the next secular day, 
instead of on the previous day, as is the case in the absence 
of statute with paper bearing days of grace maturing on 
Sunday. See bank-holiday. 
II. a. Pertaining to a festival; befitting a 
holiday ; cheerful ; joyous ; hence, suited only 
to a holiday; dainty; not fitted for serious ac- 
tion or life. 
It is a holyday work to visit the prisoners, for they be 
kept from sermons. 
Latimer, 5th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1649. 
Now I am in a holiday humour. 
Shah., As you Like it, Iv. 1. 
With many holiday and lady terms 
He question'd me. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., L 8. 
Courage is but a holiday kind of virtue, to be seldom ex- 
ercised. Dryden. 
Lack-a-day, they have never seen any service Holiday 
soldiers 1 S. Foote, Mayor of Garratt, i. 1. 
To speak holiday!, to speak choicely or daintily. 
What say you to young master Fenton ? he capers, he 
dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks 
holiday, he smells April and May. 
SAa*.,M. W. of W., ill. 2. 
holiday (hol'i-da), v. i. [< holiday, n.] To 
make holiday; go pleasuring; waste time in 
play. [Rare.] 
We cannot rid ourselves of a lurking suspicion that the 
holidaying fisherman is a little of a pharisee not an 
obnoxious one, but pardonable, even amiable in his self- 
righteousness. The Critic, V. 165. 
holidayism (hol'i-da-izm), . [< holiday + 
-ism.} The character of a holiday. 
Under the working of the civil law as the prominent 
element of authority, Sunday has tended and must tend to 
holidayitm. Pop. Sci. Mo. , XXIX. 708. 
holidomt, ". Same as halidom. 
holily (ho'li-li), adv. [< ME. liolijly ; < holy + 
-fy 2 . J 1 . In a holy or devout manner ; piously ; 
with sanctity. 
She departed and come to hir owne house, and ledde 
holijly hir lit Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 13. 
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2. Sacredly; inviolably; sinlessly; purely. 
Friendship, a rare thing in princes, more rare between 
princes, that so hotily was observed to the last of those 
two excellent men. Sir P. Sidney. 
3. By holy or righteous means. 
What thou wouldst highly, 
Thatwouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, 
And yet wouldst wrongly win. Shale., Macbeth, i. 5. 
holiness (ho'li-nes), n. [< ME. liolincKse, holy- 
ncsse, halinessc, halignesse, < AS. halignes, < hd- 
lig, holy: see holy and -ness.~\ 1. The state 
or character of being holy or sinless; purity 
of moral character; perfect freedom from all 
evil; sanctity. 
And at medys of the Dyner the ffather Wardyn made a 
ryght holy sermon, and shewyd ryght Devoutly the holy- 
nesse of all the blyssyd choseyn place of the holy londe. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 26. 
Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is 
like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing 
wonders? Ex. xv. 11. 
Holiness becometh thine house, Lord, for ever. 
Ps. xciii. 5. 
Now, as righteousness is but a heightened conduct, so 
holiness is but a heightened righteousness ; a more fin- 
ished, entire, and awe-filled righteousness. 
M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, i. 
2. The state of anything hallowed, or conse- 
crated to God or to his worship; sacredness. 
His or your holiness, a title of the Pope, and of the By- 
zantine emperors: also formerly used of church digni- 
taries generally. 
What's this "To the Pope"? 
The letter, as I live, with all the business 
I writ to hit holiness. Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 2. 
= S^n. 1. Saintliness, Oodlinesn, etc. See religion. 
holing-ax (ho'ling-aks), . [< holing, verbal n. 
of hole 1 , v., + ax 1 .] A narrow ax for cutting 
holes in posts. 
holing-pick (ho'ling-pik), n. The kind of pick 
used m under-cutting or holing coal. The form 
varies considerably indifferent coal-mining dis- 
tricts. 
holinight (ho'li-mt), . [< holy + night, after 
holiday.] A festal night. Dames. [Rare.] 
When the dusk holiday or holinight 
Of fragrant-curtain'd love begins to weave 
The woof of darkness thick for hid delight. 
Keats, The Day is Gone. 
holkt, n. [Sc. also houk, howk; < ME. hoik, < AS. 
hole (= LG. holke), a hollow, a hole, < hoi, hol- 
low: see hole 1 , hollow 1 .] A hole; a hollow, 
holkt, v. t. [Sc. also houk, howk; < ME. holken 
(= LG. holken = Sw. h&lka), hollow out, < hoik, 
a hollow : see hoik, n.] To hollow out ; dig out. 
The kynges sunnes in his syjt he slow euer vchone, 
& holkked out his auen yxen heterly bothe. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1222. 
holl (hol), n. [A dial. var. of hole 1 , .] A nar- 
row or dry ditch. [Prov. Eng.] 
hollat (ho-la' or hol'a,), inter/. [Orig. accented 
on the last syllable; cf. F. hold, ho there, an 
interj. used to call attention, < ho, ho, + la, 
there, < L. iliac, that way, there, abl. fern, of 
illic, he, she, or it yonder, that, < ille, he, that, + 
-c, -ce, a demonstrative suffix. The form holla 
belongs to the same group as hallo, halloo, hello, 
q. v., the forms hollo, holloa, hollow?, being pho- 
netically intermediate forms : see hallo, halloo, 
hollo. The D. holla, G. holla,, Dan.halloj, interj., 
so far as, being interjections, they are borrowed 
at all, are from the F.] Ho there! stop! hello! 
a call to some one at a distance, in order to at- 
tract attention, or an answer to one who hails. 
Hola ! stand there ! Shak., Othello, i. 2. 
Cry Holla! to the tongue, I prithee; it curvets unsea- 
sonably. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. 
holla (hol'a or ho-la'), v. [< holla, interj. Cf. 
hollo, v.'} i. intrans. Tocall; cry; shout "Hol- 
la!" See hollo. 
I'll tarry till my son come ; he hollaed but even now. 
Whoa, ho hoa ! Shak. , W. T. , iii. 3. 
II. trans. To cry out ; utter loudly. 
I will find him when he lies asleep, 
And in his ear I'll holla Mortimer ! 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., L 8. 
holla (hol'a or ho-la'), n. [< holla, interj. and 
i'.] A shout; a cry consisting of the interjec- 
tion holla. 
I'll use 
My wonted whoops and hollas, as I were 
A hunting for 'em. Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, v. 1. 
holland (hol'and), n. and a. [Late ME. hoi- 
land, holond; named from the country of its ori- 
gin, Holland, D. Holland, G. Dan., etc., Holland, 
prig. Holtland (OS. Holtland Wackernagel), 
i. e. ' woodland ' ; < D. holt = AS. E. holt, a wood, 
+ land = E. land: see holt 1 and land. Hence 
also hollands.] I. n. If. Linen imported from 
the Netherlands. 
hollo 
A pece [of) holland, or ony other lynnen cloth, conteyneth 
Ix ellis. Anwld't Chron., 1502 (ed. 1811), p. 206. 
The sark that he had on his back, 
Was o' the Holland sma'. 
Juhnie of Cocklesmuir (Child's Ballads, VI. 18). 
Any young fellow that affects to dress and appear gen- 
teelly, might with artificial management save ten pounds a 
year, as instead of fine holland he might mourn in sack- 
cloth. Spectator, No. 360. 
2. Unbleached linen cloth, made in many 
places, but especially in Scotland. There are 
two kinds, glazed and unglazed. Glazed holland, made 
smooth and heavy by sizing, is much used for window- 
shades ; this is made of different sober colors, as buff, dark 
green, or blue, gray, etc. Brown holland, a plain linen 
cloth which has had little or no bleaching, but only a short 
boiling in water, or in weak soda-ash solution, followed by 
a weak souring. It retains, therefore, more or less closely 
the natural color of the retted flax-fiber. 
Bright damask does penance in drown holland. 
Dickens, Bleak House, xxlx. 
II. a. Made of linen from the Netherlands, 
or of unbleached linen. 
She turned down the blankets fine, 
Likewise the Holland sheet. 
Mary Hamilton (Child's Ballads, III. 329). 
Holland clotht, Holland webt. Same as holland, L 
Hollander (hol'an-der), n. [= D. Hollander = 
G. Hollander = Dan. Hollander = Sw. Hollan- 
dare; as Holland + -er 1 .] A native of Holland 
or of the Netherlands. 
Edward from Belgia, 
With hasty Germans, and blunt Hollanders, 
Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., Iv. 8. 
Holland gin. Same as hollands. 
Hollandish (hol'an-dish), a. [= D. Hollandsch 
= G. Holldndisch"= Dan. Hollandsk = Sw. Hol- 
landsk; as Holland + -ish 1 .] Like Holland; 
of or pertaining to Holland or the Netherlands ; 
Dutch : as, a Hollandish woman. 
hollands (hol'andz), n. [See holland.'] Gin 
made in Holland or like that made in Holland. 
See gin 5 and schnapps. 
An exhilarating compound, formed by mixing together, 
in a pewter vessel, certain quantities of British hollands 
and the fragrant essence of the clove. 
Dickens, Pickwick, xvi. 
hollen (hol'en), M. [Early mod. E. also hollin; 
< ME. holin, holyn, < AS. holen, holegn, holly = 
W. celyn = Com. celin = Bret, kelen = Ir. eui- 
leann=Ga,e\. cmlioun, holly, = (with diff. term. ) 
D. Mist (see hulsf) = OHG. hiilis, huls, MHG. 
huls, G. 7i7se (> OF. houlx, houx, F. houxj, holly. 
Hollen is thus historically the more correct form 
of holly' 1 , q. v. A contracted form with altered 
final consonant appears in holm?, q. v.] Holly. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
He see a lady where she sate betwixt an oke & a greene 
hollen. Percy's Folio MS., I. 109. 
The flame tuik fast upon her cheik, . . . 
She burn'd like Aoi-green. 
Earl Richard (Child's Ballads, III. 9). 
hollen-bobbet, . [ME. holyn-bobbe; < holyn, 
holen, E. hollen, + bobbe, perhaps here an error 
for boge, bough : see bough 1 .] A bough of holly. 
In his on honde he hade a holyn bobbe, 
That is grattest in grene, when greuez ar bare. 
Sir Qawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 206. 
holler (hol'er), v. and n. A common vulgar 
form of hollo. 
hollie-point (hol'i-point), . [Said to stand for 
holy-point, withref. to its use.] A needle-point 
lace popular in the middle ages for church uses, 
and adapted to other purposes in the seven- 
teenth and eighteenth centuries. Different 
makes of lace have been called by this name. 
hollie-Stitch (hol'i-stich), , A kind of button- 
hole-stitch used in making hollie-point lace. 
Holliglasst, n. See Owlglass. 
hollihockt, n. See hollyhock. 
hollint, n. An obsolete form of hollen. 
Holling (hol'ing), n. [E. dial., appar. a contr. 
var. of hallowing, confused with hollen, with ref . 
to the tree ; but the tree is an ash.] The eve of 
the Epiphany. It is so called at Brough in Westmore- 
land, where there is an annual procession to an ash-tree 
lighted at the top (on which combustible matter has been 
placed), in commemoration of the star of the wise men of 
the East. Jfallimll; Hampgon, Medii -&i Kalemiarium, 
II. 199 (gloss.). 
hollo (ho-16'), interj. [An intermediate form 
between hallo, halloo, or hello, and holla : see 
these forms.] Ho there! hello! an exclama- 
tion to some one at a distance, in order to call 
attention, or in answer to one who hails : like 
halloo, holla, and hello, interj. 
hollo (hol'6), v. [Also written holloa, hollow, 
and, according to a common perversion, hol- 
ler ; < hollo, interj., ult. < hallo, holla, interj. : 
see hollo, interj., and holla, hallo, halloo, etc.] 
I. in trans. To call out, cry out, or shout, in or- 
