Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 40
Holding (n.) The burden or chorus of a song. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Holding note (Mus.), A note sustained in one part, while the other parts move.
Holding (n.) The act of retaining something [syn: retention, keeping, holding].
Holding (n.) Something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property"; [syn: property, belongings, holding].
Hole (a.) Whole.
Hole (n.) 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.
Hole (n.) 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.
Hole (n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
Hole (n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
Hole (v. i.) To go or get into a hole.
Holethnic (a.) Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.
Holethnos (n.) A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.
Holibut (n.) See Halibut.
Holidam (n.) See Halidom.
Holiday (n.) A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
Holiday (n.) A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.
Holiday (n.) A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.
Holiday (a.) Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.
Holiday (a.) Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.
Holidaymaker (n.) 假日遊客；行樂者 Someone who travels for pleasure [syn: tourist, tourer, holidaymaker].
Holily (adv.) Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.
Holily (adv.) Sacredly; inviolably.
Holiness (n.) The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence.
Holiness (n.) The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness.
Holing (n.) Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass.
Holla (interj.) Hollo.
Hollaed (imp. & p. p.) of Holla
Hollaing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Holla
Holla (v. i.) See Hollo, v. i.
Holland (n.) A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
Hollander (n.) A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.
Hollander (n.) A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker.
Hollandish (a.) Relating to Holland; Dutch.
Hollands (n.) Gin made in Holland.
Hollands (n.) See Holland.
Hollo (interj. & n.) Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo.
Holloed (imp. & p. p.) of Hollo
Holloing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hollo
Hollo (interj.) To call out or exclaim; to halloo. This form is now mostly replaced by hello.
Holloa (n. & v. i.) Same as Hollo.
Hollow (a.) 空的，中空的；凹陷的 Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. -- Ex. xxvii. 8.
Hollow (a.) Depressed; concave;
gaunt; sunken.
With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. -- Shak.
Hollow (a.) Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. -- Dryden.
Hollow (a.) Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --Milton.
Hollow newel (Arch.), An opening in the center of a winding staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a staircase.
Hollow quoin (Engin.), A pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates.
Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel.
Hollow square. See Square.
Hollow ware, Hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.
Syn: Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless; deceitful; treacherous.
Hollow (n.) A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.
Hollow (n.) [C] 窪地；洞，穴；坑；山谷 A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.
Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. -- Prior.
I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. -- Tennyson.
Hollowed (imp. & p. p.) of Hollow
Hollowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hollow
Hollow (v. t.) 挖空；挖成 [（+out）] To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. "Trees rudely hollowed." -- Dryden.
Hollow (adv.) 空洞地，無用地；【口】徹底地，完全地 Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Colloq.]
The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. -- Darwin.
Hollow (interj.) Hollo.
Hollow (v. i.) To shout; to hollo.
Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. -- Fuller.
Hollow (v. t.) To urge or call by shouting.
He has hollowed the hounds. -- Sir W. Scott.
Hollow (a.) Not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall"; "a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became gaunter and more hollow with each year" [ant: solid].
Hollow (a.) As if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom".
Hollow (a.) Devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: empty, hollow, vacuous].
Hollow (n.) A cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks".
Hollow (n.) A small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians" [syn: hollow, holler].
Hollow (n.) A depression hollowed out of solid matter [syn: hole, hollow].
Hollow (v.) Remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillside" [syn: excavate, dig, hollow].
Hollow (v.) Remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" [syn: hollow, hollow out, core out].
Hollow-hearted (a.) Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.
Hollow-horned (a.) Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.
Hollowly (adv.) Insincerely; deceitfully.
Hollowness (n.) State of being hollow.
Hollowness (n.) Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery.
Holly (adv.) Wholly.
Holly (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.
Holly (n.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm.
Hollyhock (n.) (Bot.) 【植】蜀葵 A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.
Note: Rose mallow is listed as a variety of Hibiscus, not Hollyhock in several Web pages. Name change???
Hollyhock (n.) Any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea [syn: althea, althaea, hollyhock].
Hollyhock (n.) Any of various tall plants of the genus Alcea; native to the Middle East but widely naturalized and cultivated for its very large variously colored flowers.
Hollyhock (n.) [C] 蜀葵（一種觀賞植物） A garden plant that has very tall stems covered with brightly coloured flowers.
Holm (n.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.
Holm (n.) An islet in a river.
Holm (n.) Low, flat land.
Holmia (n.) An oxide of holmium.
Holmium (n.) A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite.
Holmos (n.) A name given to a vase having a rounded body
Holmos (n.) A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal.
Holmos (n.) A drinking cup having a foot and stem.
Holo- () A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.
Holoblast (n.) an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.
Holoblastic (a.) Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.
Holocaust (n.) A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
Holocaust (n.) Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
Holocaust (n.) [ C ] A very large amount of destruction, especially by fire or heat, or the killing of very large numbers of people.
// A nuclear holocaust (= destruction caused by nuclear weapons) would leave few survivors.
the Holocaust (n.) [ S ] The killing of millions of Jews and others by the Nazis before and during the Second World War.
Holocephali (n. pl.) An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimaeras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimaera; also Illustration in Appendix.
Holocryptic (a.) Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.
Holocrystalline (a.) (Min.) Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
Compare: Crystalline
Crystalline (a.) 結晶的；結晶質的，結晶狀的；水晶製的；水晶般的；透明的；清晰的 Having the structure and form of a crystal; composed of crystals.
‘A crystalline rock.’
Crystalline (a.) (Literary) Very clear.
‘He writes a crystalline prose.’
Holograph (v. t.) To produce a holographic image of, by holography.
Holograph (n.) 親筆文件 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.
Holograph (n.) Handwritten book or document [syn: manuscript, holograph].
Holograph (n.) The intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography [syn: hologram, holograph].
Holograph, () What is written by one's own hand. The same as Olograph. Vide Olograph.
Holograph (a.) (Also Holographic) 親筆的 Wholly written by the person in whose name it appears.
// A holograph letter.
Holograph (n.) A holograph writing, as a deed, will, or letter.
Holographic (a.) 親筆文件的；全像攝影的 Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.
Holographic (a.) Of or pertaining to holography or holograms; produced by holography.
Holography (n.) 全像技術；全像攝影；雷射光攝影術The process of producing holograms, usually requiring a source of coherent light, as from a laser.
Holography (n.) The branch of optics that deals with the use of coherent light from a laser in order to make a hologram that can then be used to create a three-dimensional image.
Holography (n.) The study or production of holograms.
‘In classical holography, a laser beam reflected off an object interferes with a reference beam, and the interference pattern is recorded on a photographic plate.’
Compare: Hologram
Hologram (n.) 【物】全息圖；立體投影 A three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light beams from a laser or other coherent light source.
‘Those blend at the chip with unfettered laser light to create a hologram of the tumor interior.’
Hologram (n.) A photograph of an interference pattern which, when suitably illuminated, produces a three-dimensional image.
‘The new licences meet international standards, featuring micro-printing, holograms and images only visible in ultraviolet light.’
Holohedral (a.) (Crystallog.) 全對稱晶形的 Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.
Compare: Crystallography
Crystallography (n.) 結晶學；晶體繞射法 Branch of science that deals with discerning the arrangement and bonding of atoms in crystalline solids and with the geometric structure of crystal lattices. Classically, the optical properties of crystals were of value in mineralogy and chemistry for the identification of substances. Modern crystallography is largely based on the analysis of the diffraction of X-rays by crystals acting as optical gratings. Using X-ray crystallography, chemists are able to determine the internal structures and bonding arrangements of minerals and molecules, including the structures of large complex molecules, such as proteins and DNA.
Holohemihedral (a.) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes.
Holometabola (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.
Holometabolic (a.) Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees.
Holometer (n.) An instrument for making of angular measurements.
Holophanerous (a.) Same as Holometabolic.
Holophotal (a.) Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.
Holophote (n.) A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.
Holophrastic (a.) Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.
Holophytic (a.) Wholly or distinctively vegetable.
Holorhinal (a.) Having the nasal bones contiguous.
Holosiderite (n.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.
Holostean (a.) Pertaining to the Holostei.
Holostei (n. pl.) An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.
Holosteric (a.) Wholly solid; -- said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid.
Holostomata (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.
Holostomate (a.) Same as Holostomatous.
Holostomatous (a.) Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells.
Holostome (n.) One of the Holostomata.
Holostraca (n. pl.) A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.
Holothure (n.) A holothurian.
Holothurian (a.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea.
Holothurian (n.) One of the Holothurioidea.
Holothurioidea (n. pl.) One of the classes of echinoderms.