Word Meanings - JADDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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- HOLLOW-HEARTED
Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous. - HOLOGRAPH
A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be. (more info) "olo`grafos; "o`los whole + gra`fein to write: cf. F. holographe, - HOLOMETABOLA
Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola. - HOLD
The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. - HOLOTHURIAN
( -- n. - HOLLO
Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo. And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo. Coleridge. - HOLOHEDRAL
Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral. - HOLIDAM
See HALIDOM - HOLOPHYTIC
Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition (, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the - HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar. - HOLETHNIC
Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race. The holethnic history of the Arians. London Academy. - HOLMIUM
A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite. -- Hol"mic, a. - HOL
Whole. Chaucer. - HOLT
3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth. Chaucer. - HOLOUR
A whoremonger. Chaucer. - HOLOSTOMATA
An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture. - HOLYSTONE
A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships. Totten. - HOLILY
1. Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner. 2. Sacredly; inviolably. Shak. - HOLDBACK
1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. 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 - HOLMIA
An oxide of holmium. - BUTTONHOLE
The hole or loop in which a button is caught. - ACHOLOUS
Lacking bile. - CATHOLICON
A remedy for all diseases; a panacea. - INHOLD
To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh. - EYEHOLE
A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet. - WORMHOLE
A burrow made by a worm. - ECHOLESS
Without echo or response. - ORTHOLOGY
The right description of things. Fotherby. - EUCHOLOGION; EUCHOLOGY
A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers. - COPYHOLDER
One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader. - NYMPHOLEPSY
A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. De Quincey. The nympholepsy of some fond despair. Byron. - CATHOLIC
1. Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey. Note: This epithet, which is applicable to the whole Christian church, or its faith, is claimed by Roman Catholics