PI O L D 
His gracious promife you might, 
As cauie had call’d you up, have held, him to. Shakefpeare. 
To keep ; to fuve : 
Stay but a little ; for my cloud of dignity 
Is held from falling with fo weak a wind, 
That it will quickly drop : my day is dim. Shakefpeare. 
To confine to a certain (late.—The Moll High then fliow- 
ed figns for them, and held ftill the flood, 'till they were 
palled over, 2 Efdr. xiji. 14.—To detain ; to keep in con¬ 
finement or fubjeftion.—Him God hath raifed up, having 
loofed the pains of death, becaufe it was not pcflible that 
he Ihould be holdtn of it. AEls. —To retain; to continue : 
Thefe reafons mov’d her llar-like hulband’s heart; 
But Hill he held his purpofe to depart. Dry den. 
To praftife with continuance : 
Night 
And chaos, ancel'tors of nature, hold 
Eternal anarchy.. Milton. 
Not to intermit: 
•Seed-time and harvelt, heat and hoary fro ft. 
Shall hold their courfe. Milton. 
To folemnize; to celebrate.—He held a feali in his houfe 
like the feali of a king. 1 Sam. —To conferve; not to in¬ 
fringe.—Her hulband heard it, and held his peace. Numb. 
xxx. 7.—To manage ; to handle intellectually.—Some in 
their difcourfe defire rather commendation of wit, in be¬ 
ing able to hold all arguments, than of judgment in dif- 
eerning what is true. Bacon. —To maintain.—Whereupon 
they alio made engines againlt their engines, and held them 
battle a long l’ealon. 1 Mac. vi. 52.—To carry on conjunc¬ 
tively.—The Pharifees held a council againlt him. Mat¬ 
thew. —To profecute ; to continue.—He came to the land’s 
end, where he, holding his courle towards the well, did at 
length peaceably pafs through the llraits. Abbot. 
To Hold forth. To offer; to exhibit; to propofe.— 
Chriftianity came into the world with the greatelt fimpli- 
city of thought and language, as well as life and manners, 
holding forth nothing but piety, charity, and humility, with 
the belief of the Mefliah and of his kingdom. Temple.-^- To 
pretend ; to put forward to view.—How joyful and plea- 
lant a thing it is to have a light held us forth from hea¬ 
ven direCl our Heps ! Cheyne. 
To Hold in. To reltrain ; to govern by the bridle.— 
I have lately fold my nag, and honellly told his greatelt 
fault, which is, that he became fuch a lover of liberty, 
that I could fcarce hold him in. Swift. —To reltrain in ge¬ 
neral.—Thefe men’s haltinefs the warier fort of you doth 
not commend ; ye with they had held themfelves longer 
in, and not fo dangerouily flown abroad. Hooker. 
To Hold of. To keep at a dillance : 
Although ’tis fit that Caflio have his place; 
Yet, if you pleafe to hold him off a while, 
You (hall by that perceive him. Shakefpeare. 
To Hold on. To continue; to protract; to pufli for¬ 
ward.—If the obedience challenged were indeed due, then 
did our brethren both begin the quarrel and hold it on. 
Saunderfon. 
To Hold out. To extend ; to ftretch forth.—The king 
held out to Either the golden fceptre that was in his hand. . 
Ejlh. v. 2.—To offer; to propofe.—Fortune holdsout thefe to 
you as rewards. Ben John/on. —-To continue to do orl'uffer; 
He cannot long hold out thefe pangs, 
Th’ inceflant care and labour of his mind. Shakefpeare. 
To Hold up. To rife aloft.—The hand of the Al¬ 
mighty vifibly held up, and prepared to take vengeance. 
Locke.—-Do fultain; to fupport by influence or contri¬ 
vance.—There is no man at once either excellently good 
or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himfelf tip 
in virtue, orlets himfelf Hide to vicioufhefs. Sidney. —To 
keep from falling; materially.—We have often made one 
coniiderably thick piece of marble take and hold up ano- 
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ther, having purpofely caufed their flat furfaces to be 
carefully ground and polilhed. Boyle. 
To HOLD, v. n. To Hand ; to be right; to be without 
exception.—To fay that limply an argument, taken from 
man’s authority, doth hold no way, neither affirmatively 
nor negatively, is hard. Hooker. 
In words, as falhions, the fame rule will hold ; 
Alike fantaftic, if too new or old. Pope. 
To continue unbroken or unfubdued.—Our force by land 
hath nobly held. Shakefpeare. —To lalt; to endure : 
Never any man was yet fo old, 
But hop’d his life one winter more might hold. Denham. 
To continue without variation.—He did not hold in this 
mind long. VEJlrange.- —To refrain: 
His dauntlefs heart would fain have held 
From weeping, but his eyes rebell’d. Dryden. 
To Hand up for; to adhere.—Through envy of the devil 
came death into the world, and they that do hold of his 
fide do find it. Wijd. ii. 24.—To be dependant on.—The 
great barons had not only great numbers of knights, but 
even petty barons, holding under them. Temple. —To derive 
right: 
’Tis true, from force the nobleft title fprings; 
I therefore hold from that which firll made kings. Dryden. 
To maintain an opinion.—Men hold and poflefs without 
ever having examined. Locke. 
To Hold forth. To harangue; to fpeak in public ; to 
fet forth publicly.—A petty conjuror, telling fortunes, 
held forth in the market-place. L'EJl range. 
To Hold in. To reltrain one’s felf.—I am full of the 
fury of the Lord: I am weary with holding in. Jcr. vi. ii. 
—To continue in luck.—A duke, playing at hazard, held 
in a great many hands together. Swift. 
He Hold off. To keep at a dillance without doling 
with offers.—Thele are interells important enough, and 
yet we muff be wooed to confider them; nay, that does 
not prevail neither, but with a perverle coynels we hold 
off. Decay of Piety. 
To Hold on. To continue ; not to be interrupted.— 
The trade held on for many years after the bilhops became 
Proteiiants ; and fome of their names are ftill remembered 
with infamy, on account of enriching their families by 
fuch facrilegious" alienations. Swift. —To proceed.—He 
held on ’till he was upon the very point of breaking. 
VEflrange. 
To Hold out. To lalt; to endure.—Truth, fidelity, and 
juftice, are a lure way of thriving, and will hold out, when 
all fraudulent arts and devices will fail. Tillotfon. —Not to 
yield ; not to be l'ubdued : 
Pronounce your thoughts: are they ftill fixt 
To hold it out, and fight it to the lalt ? 
Or are your hearts fubdu’d at length, and wrought, 
By time and ill fuccefs, to a fubmiffion ? Addifon. • 
To Hold together. To be joined.—Thofe old Gothic 
cattles, made at leveral times, hold together only, as it were, 
by rags and patches. Dryden. —To remain in union.—Even 
outlaws and robbers, who break with all the world be- 
fides, muff keep faith amonglt themfelves, or elfe they 
cannot hold together. Locke. 
To Hold up. To fupport himfelf.—All the wife fay-- 
ings which philofophers could mutter up, have helped 
only to fupport fome few flout and obftinate minds, which, 
without the affiltance of philofophy, could have held up 
pretty well of themfelves. Tillotfon .—Not to be foul wea¬ 
ther :. 
Though nice and dark the point appear. 
Quoth Ralph, it may hold up and clear. Hudibras. 
To continue the fame l'peed.—When two ftart into the 
world together, the fuccefs of the firll feems to prels upon 
the reputation of the latter: for why could not he hold 
up ? Collier of Envy. 
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