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• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• HOLOGRAPH
  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. (more info) "olo`grafos; "o`los whole + gra`fein to write: cf. F. holographe,
• HOLOMETABOLA
  Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.
• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• HOLOTHURIAN
  ( -- n.
• HOLLO
  Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo. And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo. Coleridge.
• HOLOHEDRAL
  Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.
• HOLIDAM
  See HALIDOM
• HOLOPHYTIC
  Wholly or distinctively vegetable. Holophytic nutrition (, that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the
• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• HOLETHNIC
  Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race. The holethnic history of the Arians. London Academy.
• HOLMIUM
  A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite. -- Hol"mic, a.
• HOL
  Whole. Chaucer.
• HOLT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth. Chaucer.
• HOLOUR
  A whoremonger. Chaucer.
• HOLOSTOMATA
  An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.
• HOLYSTONE
  A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships. Totten.
• HOLILY
  1. Piously; with sanctity; in a holy manner. 2. Sacredly; inviolably. Shak.
• HOLDBACK
  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
• HOLMIA
  An oxide of holmium.
• BUTTONHOLE
  The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
• ACHOLOUS
  Lacking bile.
• CATHOLICON
  A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• EYEHOLE
  A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.
• WORMHOLE
  A burrow made by a worm.
• ECHOLESS
  Without echo or response.
• ORTHOLOGY
  The right description of things. Fotherby.
• EUCHOLOGION; EUCHOLOGY
  A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• CATHOLIC
  1. Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey. Note: This epithet, which is applicable to the whole Christian church, or its faith, is claimed by Roman Catholics
• NYMPHOLEPSY
  A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. De Quincey. The nympholepsy of some fond despair. Byron.