Vocabulary : Holaspidean to Hole

Holaspidean : Having a single series of large scutes on the posterior side of the tarsus; -- said of certain birds.
Holcad : A large ship of burden, in ancient Greece.
Hold : The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. ;; To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like; to prevent from falling or escaping; to sustain; to restrain; to keep in the grasp; to retain. ;; To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend. ;; To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title to; as, to hold office. ;; To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain. ;; To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain. ;; To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action; as to, hold a meeting, a festival, a session, etc.; hence, to direct and bring about officially; to conduct or preside at; as, the general held a council of war; a judge holds a c
Holdback : Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. ;; The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used.
Holden : of Hold

Holder : One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. ;; One who, or that which, holds. ;; One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant. ;; The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.
Holder-forth : One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher.
Holdfast : Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support. ;; A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.
Holding : of Hold ;; The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. ;; A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. ;; That which holds, binds, or influences. ;; The burden or chorus of a song.
Hole : Whole. ;; A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. ;; An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation. ;; To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars. ;; To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball. ;; To go or get into a hole. ;; A small cavity used in some games, usually one into which a marble or ball is to be played or driven; hence, a score made by playing a marble or ball into such a hole, as in golf. ;; At Eton College, England, that part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.