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H O L 
To Hold with. To adhere to; to co-operate with.— 
There is none that holdcth with me in thefe things but Mi¬ 
chael. Daniel. 
Hold has fometiraes the appearance of an interjeftion ; 
but is the imperative mood. Forbear; Hop; be Hill: 
Hold, hold! are all thy empty willies fuch! 
A good old woman would have laid as much. Drydtn. 
HOLD, f. The aft of feizing ; gripe ; grafp ; feizure. 
It is ul'ed with great frequency, both literally and figura¬ 
tively, both for manual and intelleftual agency. The 
verbs with which it is ofteneft united, are take, lay, and 
have. —Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and 
took hold of it, for the oxen (hook it. 2 Sam. vi. 6 .—Find 
courage to lay hold on this occaiion. Milton. 
He kept his hold, 
Nor loft ’till beauty was decay’d and old, 
And love was by poffefiion pall’d and cold. Granville. 
Something to be held ; fupport.—If a man be upon a high 
place, without rails or good hold, he is ready to fall. Bacon. 
—Power of keeping : 
On your vigour now, 
My hold of this new kingdom all depends. Milton. 
Catch ; power of feizing.—The law hath yet another 
hold on you. Shakefpcare.— Prifon ; place of culfody.—They 
laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next 
day. Acls. —Cuftody : 
King Richard, he is the mighty hold 
Of Bolingbroke. Shaltejpeare. 
Power ; influence operating on the mind.—Rural recrea¬ 
tions abroad, and books at home, are the innocent plea- 
iures of a man who is early wife; and give fortune no 
more hold of him than of neceflity he mull. Drydcn. 
Hold of a Ship. All that part which lies between the 
keel-fern and the lower deck. Harris. 
Now a fea into the hold was got, 
Wave upon wave another fea had wrought. Dryden. 
A lurking place: as, the hold of a wild beaft or deer.—A 
fortified place ; a fort; a fafe refidence.—Thefe feparated 
themfelves unto David, into the hold to the wildernefs, 
raen of might. C/iron. —He (hall deftroy the ftrong holds. 
Jeremiah. 
HOLD'-DOOR, ad]. Aflifting amorous intercourfe.— 
Brethren and lifters of the hold-door trade. Shakefpeare. 
HOL'DEN (Henry), an Englifli Catholic divine, who 
went early into France, where he was admitted to the de¬ 
gree of doftbr by the faculty of theology at Paris, in 164.6. 
He was diftinguilhed for profound erudition, integrity, 
and virtuous manners, and died regretted by all who knew 
him in 1662. He was the author of, 1. Analyjis Fidei, a 
little work which was reprinted by Barbou in 1766, and 
contains a luminary of the whole economy of religion, 
the principles and motives of faith, and their application 
to controverfial queftions; 2. Oratio H. H. tjuam paratam 
habebat ad Enuhciationem in Examine Propoftionis Arnaldina, 
1656. 3, Two Letters, of the fame date, one addrefled 
to M. Ferret, and the other to M. Arnauld, in which he 
maintains the doftrine of efficacious grace. 4.. Marginal 
Notes on the New Teftament, 1660, in two volumes nmo. 
&c. The laft-mentioned work is fpoken of in high terms 
of commendation. 
HOL'DEN, a townlhip of the American States, in Wor- 
cefter county, Malfachufletts ; formerly the north-weftern 
part of Worcefter, from which it is diftant (even miles, 
and fifty-one miles weft of Bofton. It contains by the 
cenfus 1080 inhabitants. If was incorporated in 174.0. 
Li the earthquake in 1755, there were feveral acres of 
land, in an oblcure place in the nort’n-eaft corner of the 
townlhip, quite furrounded by a vilible fracture in the 
earth, of a circular form, and of various width and depth. 
The (mail river there had its bed railed fo as to occaiion 
n confiderable fall of water, where there was little or none 
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before. The (lump of a tree, that ftoocf direftly cvrr the 
chafm, on the eaft was divided into two equal parts, one 
(landing on the outfide of the chafm, the other upon the 
infide; but not oppolite to each other; the half within 
the chafm being carried five feet forward, towards the 
river. 
HOLD'ER, f. [from hold.'] One that holds and gripes 
any thing in his hand,—The makers and holders of plows 
are wedded to their own particular way. Mortimer. —A te¬ 
nant ; one that holds "land under another. 
HOL'DER (William), a learned Englifn divine, born 
in Nottinghamlhire, educated in Pembroke-hall, Cam¬ 
bridge, and in 164.2 became reftor of Blechingdon in 
Oxfordfliire. In 1660 he proceeded D. D. was afterwards 
canon of Ely, fellow of the Royal Society, canon of St. 
Paul's, fub-dean of the royal chapel, and fub-almoner to 
the king. Dr. Holder publifned The Elements of Speech ; 
or an Efiay on the natural Production of Letters: with 
an Appendix concerning perfons that are deaf and dumb, 
1669, 8vo. In the appendix he relates by what methods 
he had brought a young gentleman of the name of Pop- 
ham to {peak. In 1678 he publifhed in ato. A Supple¬ 
ment to the Philofophical Tranfaftions of July 1670. 
This was written to claim the merit of having taught 
Popham to fpeak, which Dr. Wallis had alfo claimed to 
himfelf. Holder was well (killed in mufic; and wrote 
A Treatife of the natural Grounds and Principles of 
Harmony, 1694., 8vo. He wrote alfo A Difcourfe con¬ 
cerning Time, with Application of the natural Day, lunar 
Month, and folar Year, See. 1694., Svo. He died January 
24, 1696-7, and was buried in St. Paul’s cathedral. 
HOLDER-FO'RTH,y.‘ An haranguer; one who fpeaks 
in public: 
Whence fome tub koldcrs-forth have made 
In powd’ring-tubs the richeft trade. Hudibras. 
HOL'DERNESS, a diftrift of England, in the county 
of York, forming a promontory between the Humber and 
the German Ocean. 
HOL'DERNESS, a townlhip of the American States in 
Grafton county, New Hampihire, fltuated on the eaftern 
fide of Pemigewaflet river, incorporated in 1761. A 
corner of Squam Lake is in this townlhip ; and R,attle- 
fnake Mountain lies partly in this and Sandwich, the 
adjoining townlhip on the north-eaft. It is (ixty four 
miles north-north-weft of Por-tfmouth. 
HOLD'FAST,/! Any thing which takes hold; a catch ; 
a hook.—The feveral teeth are furnilhed with holdfajls 
fuitable to the ftrefs that they are put to. Ray. 
HOLD'ING, j. Tenure; farm. —Holdings were fo plen¬ 
tiful, and holders fo fcarce, as well was the landlord who 
could get a tenant. Carew. —It lbmetimes fignifies the 
burthen or chorus of a fong: 
The holding every man (hall beat as loud 
As his ftrong (ides can volley. Shakefpeare. 
HOLDS'WORTH (Edward), - a polite and elegant 
fcholar, born about 1688, and educated at Winchefter 
fchool. He was thence elefted demy of Magdalen col¬ 
lege, Oxford, in July 1705 ; took the degree of M. A. in 
April 1711 ; became a college-tutor, and had many noble 
pupils. He died of a fever at lord Digby’s houfe at 
Colefliill in Warwicklhire, December 30, 1747. He was 
the author of the Mufcipula, a poem ; of which there is a 
good tranflation by Dr. John Hoadly, in vol. v. of Dodf- 
ley’s Mifcellariies. He was the author alfo of Pharfalia 
and Philippi, or the two Philippi in Virgil’s Georgies 
attempted to be explained and reconciled to Hiftory, 
1741, 4to. and of Remarks and Diflertations on Virgil; 
with fome other claftical Oblervations, publifhed with 
feveral notes and additional remarks by Mr. Spence, 
1768, 4to. 
HOLBS'WORTHY, a confiderable town of Devon- 
(liire, feated between two branches of the Tamer; diftant 
215 miles weft-by-fouth from London, forty-feven north- 
eaft 
