A company that controls other independently incorporated companies by ownership of most or all of their stock, but does not directly control the daily operations of those companies.

a negotiator who hopes to gain concessions by refusing to come to terms after most other participants have signed an agreement; as, their star pitcher was a holdout for six weeks.

Any person or thing remaining from a previous period of use, tenure, etc; an official who remains in office after his term.

a robbery, usually at gunpoint.

To go or get into a hole.

Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race.

A parent stock or race of people, not yet divided into separate branches or tribes.

having pores or holes.

See Halibut.

See Halidom.

Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.

being excessively or hypocritically pious while condemning others as being less virtuous than oneself.

Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner.

The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence.

Undercutting in a bed of coal, in order to bring down the upper mass.

See Hollo, v. i.

A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.

A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.

A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman.

Relating to Holland; Dutch.

Gin made in Holland.

To call out or exclaim; to halloo.

Same as Hollo.

To urge or call by shouting.

Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

having a cavity within; as, canoe made of a hollowed log.

Insincerely; deceitfully.

State of being hollow.

serving dishes of silver having some depth in the bowl; contrasted with flatware.

A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.

A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aquifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Mahonia aquifolium) of the Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries.

A species of Alth/a (Alth/a rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.

A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.

Sherlock Holmes, a fictitious detective in novels by A. Conan Doyle.

An oxide of holmium.

A rare element of atomic number 67 said to be contained in gadolinite. Chemical symbol Ho. Atomic weight 164.93. Valence +3. It was detected by spectral absorption bands in 1878 by the Delafontaine and Soret, who called it "Element X". Later the Swedish chemist Cleve independently discovered it in erbia, and named it after his native city Stockholm. The first preparation of pure Holmia, the yellow oxide, was not made until 1911.

A name given to a vase having a rounded body A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal. A drinking cup having a foot and stem.

an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.

Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.

The geological period comprising approximately the last 10,000 years.

A natural family of fish including the squirrelfishes and soldierfishes.

The type genus of the family Holocentridae, comprising some of the squirrelfishes.

A member of the Holocephali, fish with high compressed heads and a bodies tapering off into a long tail. See also Hoocephali.

An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chim/ras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chim/ra; also Illustration in Appendix.

Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.

Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

A photographic image giving the observer a seemingly three-dimensional view of the represented object. The three-dimensional effect is produced by exposing a photographic recording medium to an interference pattern generated by a coherent beam of light (as from a laser) reflected from the subject, interacting with a beam directly from the source. The full three-dimensional effect requires illumination of the image with coherent light, but less perfect three-dimensional visual effects may also be observed when the hologram is illuminated with white light.

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.

To produce a holographic image of, by holography.

Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.

The process of producing holograms, usually requiring a source of coherent light, as from a laser.

Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.

Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes.

Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

Having a complete metamorphosis; -- said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees.

An instrument for making all kinds of angular measurements.

Same as Holometabolic.

A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

Having the nasal bones contiguous.

Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

Pertaining to the Holostei.

An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.

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.

An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.

Same as Holostomatous.

Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells.

One of the Holostomata.

A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

A holothurian.

Belonging to the Holothurioidea. One of the Holothurioidea.

One of the classes of echinoderms.

A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body.

A whoremonger.

imp. p. p. of Help.

Wholesome.

One of a breed of cattle, originally from Schleswig-Holstein, valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.

A breed of dairy cattle from North Holland and Friesland; they have a black and white color to their fur.

A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle, or worn on the person suspended from a belt or shoulder strap.

Bearing holsters.

A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill.

Hollow.

Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.

A religious festival.

To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.

Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes.

To pay reverence to by external action.

Subject to homage.

One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal.

Same as Homolographic.

Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters.

An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.

Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology.

an informal term for a youth or man.

A felt hat with a crown that is creased lengthwise, and a brim that is slightly curled upward at the edge.

To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.

To return home.

a complete circuit of the bases made by the batter without being put out and without an error on the play; also, the hit on which the batter makes such a circuit; a four-base hit.

the town (or city) where a person was born or grew up or has his principal residence; as, he never went back to his hometown again.

Kept at home, usually due to illness; same as housebound.

Bred at home; domestic; not foreign.

A return home.

Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.

Keeping at home.

Felt in one's own breast; inward; private.

grown or produced at home or in a specific locality; -- of plants or animals.

A staying at home.

Receiving or having received formal education, especially primary or secondary education, at home rather than in a school. The instruction at home may be accomplished by parents or by professionals who come to the home; as, home-schooled students often get higher test scores than those educated in schools.

Direct, forcible, and effective speaking.

a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel.

Native; indigenous; not foreign.

someone who builds houses as a business.

A field adjacent to its owner's home.

Destitute of a home.

Those people who have no permanent residence, especially those who live outdoors due to poverty; usually used in the definite phrase the homeless.