| • | 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
   court; a clergyman holds a service. | 
											
															| • | To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this
   pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have
   capacity or containing power for. | 
											
															| • | To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or
   privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain. | 
											
															| • | To consider; to regard; to esteem; to account; to think;
   to judge. | 
											
															| • | To bear, carry, or manage; as he holds himself erect; he
   holds his head high. | 
											
															| • | In general, to keep one's self in a given position or
   condition; to remain fixed. Hence: | 
											
															| • | Not to more; to halt; to stop;-mostly in the imperative. | 
											
															| • | Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to
   remain unbroken or unsubdued. | 
											
															| • | Not to fail or be found wanting; to continue; to last; to
   endure a test or trial; to abide; to persist. | 
											
															| • | Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant; to remain
   attached; to cleave;-often with with, to, or for. | 
											
															| • | To restrain one's self; to refrain. | 
											
															| • | To derive right or title; -- generally with of. | 
											
															| • | The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the
   manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; gripe;
   possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay. | 
											
															| • | The authority or ground to take or keep; claim. | 
											
															| • | Binding power and influence. | 
											
															| • | Something that may be grasped; means of support. | 
											
															| • | A place of confinement; a prison; confinement; custody;
   guard. | 
											
															| • | A place of security; a fortified place; a fort; a castle; --
   often called a stronghold. | 
											
															| • | A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and
   indicating that it is to be prolonged; -- called also pause, and
   corona. |