n. One who beholds; a spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A person who holds a bill or acceptance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A device by means of which bills, etc., are held. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A prompter at a theater. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A headborough; a borsholder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. borsolder; prob. fr. AS. borg, gen. borges, pledge + ealdor elder. See Borrow, and Elder, a. ] (Eng. Law) The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who attends a pugilist in a prize fight; -- so called from the bottle of water of which he has charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Eng. Law) One possessed of land in copyhold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (print.) (a) A device for holding copy for a compositor. (b) One who reads copy to a proof reader. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nonsense; foolish talk. [ Also spelled falderal and falderol. ] [ Colloq. ]
Syn. -- humbug; balderdash; poppycock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Law) The possessor of a freehold. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who owns local property and has been a resident for a certain period of years; -- used in some U.S. counties. [ U.S., local ] [ PJC ]

3. (Politics, U.S) A member of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of some county, such a board being a form of legislative and administrive body which controls the government in some counties in the United States. [ U.S., local ] [ PJC ]

a. One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The flicker; -- called also high-hole. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. One who is employed in the hold of a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, holds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Holder is much used as the second part of a compound; as, shareholder, officeholder, stockholder, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. See hold forth (b) under hold. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. [ 1913 Webster ]

Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Compound householder. See Compound, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inhabitant. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who keeps an inn.
Syn. -- innkeeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. -- Land"hold`ing, n. & a. [1913 Webster]

n. A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. & n. [1913 Webster]

{ } n. One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Moldered r Mouldered; p. pr. & vb. n. Moldering or Mouldering. ] [ From Mold fine soft earth: cf. Prov. G. multern. ] To crumble into small particles; to turn to dust by natural decay; to lose form, or waste away, by a gradual separation of the component particles, without the presence of water; to crumble away. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. To turn to dust; to cause to crumble; to cause to waste away. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Time's ] gradual touch
Has moldered into beauty many a tower. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds an office; an officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A handle for a pen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. ] A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments. [ Holland & Belgium ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who scolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. (b) The old squaw. [ Local U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds or owns a share or shares in a joint fund or property. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shipowner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds slaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Smoldered r Smouldered; p. pr. & vb. n. Smoldering or Smouldering. ] [ OE. smolderen; cf. Prov. G. smölen, smelen, D. smeulen. Cf. Smell. ] 1. To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The smoldering dust did round about him smoke. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exist in a state of suppressed or smothered activity; to burn inwardly; as, a smoldering feud. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. To smother; to suffocate; to choke. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. Palsgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Smoke; smother. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The smolder stops our nose with stench. Gascoigne. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Being in a state of suppressed activity; quiet but not dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some evil chance
Will make the smoldering scandal break and blaze. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The state of smoldering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Formerly soder; F. soudure, OF. soudeure, fr. OF. & F. souder to solder, L. solidare to fasten, to make solid. See Solid, and cf. Sawder. ] A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement. Hence, anything which unites or cements. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hard solder, a solder which fuses only at a red heat, as one composed of zinc and copper, or silver and copper, etc. --
Soft solder, a solder fusible at comparatively low temperatures; as, plumbers' solder, consisting of two parts lead and one part tin, is a soft solder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Soldered p. pr. & vb. n. Soldering. ] [ Formerlysoder. See Solder, n. ] 1. To unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mend; to patch up. “To solder up a broken cause.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who solders. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Solder, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soldering iron,
Soldering tool, an instrument for soldering, consisting of a bit or bolt of copper having a pointed or wedge-shaped end, and furnished with a handle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. stadhouder; stad a city, a town + houder a holder. ] Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The office or position of a stadtholder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The holder of a stake; one with whom the bets are deposited when a wager is laid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, unfolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + solder. ] To separate or disunite, as what has been soldered; hence, to divide; to sunder. [ Formerly written also unsoder. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Up + holder. Cf. Upholsterer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An undertaker, or provider for funerals. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An upholsterer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who withholds. [ 1913 Webster ]