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Hold Back
- verb -
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
- hold back; keep from being perceived by others; "She conceals her anger well"
- keep under control; keep in check; "suppress a smile"; "Keep your temper"; "keep your cool"
- refrain from doing; "she forbore a snicker"
- secure and keep for possible future use or application; "The landlord retained the security deposit"; "I reserve the right to disagree"
- wait before acting
- wait before acting; "the scientists held off announcing their results until they repeated the experiment"
Home Base
- noun - (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
- (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise; "many companies have their headquarters in New York"
Home Brew
- noun - an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home
Home-Bred
- - Bred at home; domestic; not foreign.
Honeybees
- noun - social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
Horseback
- adverb - a narrow ridge of hills
- on the back of a horse; "he rode horseback to town"; "managed to escape ahorse"; "policeman patrolled the streets ahorseback"
- the back of a horse
Horsebean
- noun - large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but naturalized in southern United States
- seed of the broad-bean plant
Houseboat
- noun - a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling
Housebote
- - Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.