English Dictionary: hold forth | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Health \Health\, n. [OE. helthe, AS. h[?]lp, fr. h[be]l hale, sound, whole. See {Whole}.] 1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. There is no health in us. --Book of Common Prayer. Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. --Buckminster. 2. A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast. [bd]Come, love and health to all.[b8] --Shak. {Bill of health}. See under {Bill}. {Health lift}, a machine for exercise, so arranged that a person lifts an increasing weight, or moves a spring of increasing tension, in such a manner that most of the muscles of the body are brought into gradual action; -- also called {lifting machine}. {Health officer}, one charged with the enforcement of the sanitary laws of a port or other place. {To drink a health}. See under {Drink}. | |
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Healthful \Health"ful\, a. 1. Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant. 2. Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. The healthful Spirit of thy grace. --Book of Common Prayer. 3. Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. A mind . . . healthful and so well-proportioned. --Macaulay. 4. Well-disposed; favorable. [R.] Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests. --Shak. | |
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Healthfully \Health"ful*ly\, adv. In health; wholesomely. | |
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Healthfulness \Health"ful*ness\, n. The state of being healthful. | |
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Heeltap \Heel"tap`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Heeltapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heeltapping}.] To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.) | |
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Heeltap \Heel"tap`\, n. 1. One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe. 2. A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. [bd]Bumpers around and no heeltaps.[b8] --Sheridan. | |
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Heeltap \Heel"tap`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Heeltapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heeltapping}.] To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.) | |
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Heeltap \Heel"tap`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Heeltapped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heeltapping}.] To add a piece of leather to the heel of (a shoe, boot, etc.) | |
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Heliotype \He"li*o*type\, n. [Helio- + -type.] A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy. | |
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Heliotypic \He`li*o*typ"ic\, a. Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy. | |
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Heliotypy \He"li*o*ty`py\, n. A method of transferring pictures from photographic negatives to hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced on paper as by lithography. | |
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Hell-diver \Hell`-div`er\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The dabchick. | |
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Dabchick \Dab"chick`\, n. [For dabchick. See {Dap}, {Dip}, cf. {Dipchick}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small water bird ({Podilymbus podiceps}), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also {dapchick}, {dobchick}, {dipchick}, {didapper}, {dobber}, {devil-diver}, {hell-diver}, and {pied-billed grebe}. | |
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Hell-diver \Hell`-div`er\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The dabchick. | |
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Dabchick \Dab"chick`\, n. [For dabchick. See {Dap}, {Dip}, cf. {Dipchick}.] (Zo[94]l.) A small water bird ({Podilymbus podiceps}), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also {dapchick}, {dobchick}, {dipchick}, {didapper}, {dobber}, {devil-diver}, {hell-diver}, and {pied-billed grebe}. | |
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Hilltop \Hill"top`\, n. The top of a hill. | |
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Grindstone \Grind"stone`\, n. A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. {To} {hold, pat, [or] bring} {one's nose to the grindstone}, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, for lack of courage, to suffer the Laced[91]monians to hold their noses to the grindstone. --Sir T. North. | |
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Hold \Hold\, n. i. In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition; to remain fixed. Hence: 1. Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative. And damned be him that first cries, [bd]Hold, enough![b8] --Shak. 2. Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued. Our force by land hath nobly held. --Shak. 3. Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist. While our obedience holds. --Milton. The rule holds in land as all other commodities. --Locke. 4. Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for. He will hold to the one and despise the other. --Matt. vi. 24 5. To restrain one's self; to refrain. His dauntless heart would fain have held From weeping, but his eyes rebelled. --Dryden. 6. To derive right or title; -- generally with of. My crown is absolute, and holds of none. --Dryden. His imagination holds immediately from nature. --Hazlitt. {Hold on!} {Hold up!} wait; stop; forbear. [Collog] -- {To hold forth}, to speak in public; to harangue; to preach. --L'Estrange. {To hold in}, to restrain one's self; as, he wanted to laugh and could hardly hold in. {To hold off}, to keep at a distance. {To hold on}, to keep fast hold; to continue; to go on. [bd]The trade held on for many years,[b8] --Swift. {To hold out}, to last; to endure; to continue; to maintain one's self; not to yield or give way. {To hold over}, to remain in office, possession, etc., beyond a certain date. {To hold to [or] with}, to take sides with, as a person or opinion. {To hold together}, to be joined; not to separate; to remain in union. --Dryden. --Locke. {To hold up}. (a) To support one's self; to remain unbent or unbroken; as, to hold up under misfortunes. (b) To cease raining; to cease to stop; as, it holds up. --Hudibras. (c) To keep up; not to fall behind; not to lose ground. --Collier. | |
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Holdback \Hold"back`\, n. 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 going down hill, or in backing; also, the strap or part of the harness so used. | |
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Holdfast \Hold"fast`\, n. 1. 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. [bd]His holdfast was gone.[b8] --Bp. Montagu. 2. (Bot.) 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. | |
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Hyalotype \Hy*al"o*type\, n. [Gr. [?] glass + -type.] A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. --R. Hunt. | |
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Hewlett Bay Park, NY (village, FIPS 34297) Location: 40.63500 N, 73.69615 W Population (1990): 440 (149 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
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Hildebran, NC (town, FIPS 31500) Location: 35.71523 N, 81.42147 W Population (1990): 790 (345 housing units) Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Hilltop, MN (city, FIPS 29258) Location: 45.05335 N, 93.24885 W Population (1990): 749 (431 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Hilltop Lakes, TX Zip code(s): 77871 | |
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Holiday Valley, OH (CDP, FIPS 35868) Location: 39.84771 N, 83.96652 W Population (1990): 1243 (433 housing units) Area: 5.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Hollywood Park, TX (town, FIPS 34628) Location: 29.59890 N, 98.48490 W Population (1990): 2841 (1116 housing units) Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 78232 | |
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Holtville, CA (city, FIPS 34246) Location: 32.81367 N, 115.37734 W Population (1990): 4820 (1477 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 92250 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Hewlett Packard Multi Processing Executive all {HP3000} {minicomputers}, in the same way that HP9000 computers run {HP-UX}. Current version: MPE/IX Version 5.5.04, as of 1998-02-17. (1998-02-17) | |
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Hewlett Packard Precision Architecture (HP-PA) {Hewlett Packard}'s range of RISC processors. [Details?] (1995-02-22) | |
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Hewlett-Packard (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994). {(http://www.hp.com/home.html)}. (1994-09-26) | |
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Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language by {HP} plotters. [Details? On-line spec?] (1994-10-27) | |
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Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus {IEEE 488} | |
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Hewlett-Packard Visual Engineering Environment (HP VEE) A package similar in intention to {LabVIEW}, running on {Unix} {workstations} under {OSF}/{Motif}. (1997-05-12) |