Word Meanings - COPYHOLDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.

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• POSSESSIVE
  Of or pertaining to possession; having or indicating possession. Possessive case , the genitive case; the case of nouns and pronouns which expresses ownership, origin, or some possessive relation of one thing to another; as, Homer's admirers; the
• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• 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
• PROOF-PROOF
  Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• DEVICEFUL
  Full of devices; inventive. A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.
• READERSHIP
  The office of reader. Lyell.
• READER
  1. One who reads. Specifically: One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. Lyell. A proof reader. One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• POSSESSIONARY
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• POSSESSOR
  One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world.
• COPYHOLD
  A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court. Blackstone. Land held in copyhold. Milton. Note: Copyholds do not exist in the United States.
• DEVICEFULLY
  In a deviceful manner.
• PROOF
  A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. (more info) 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
• HOLDING
  1. The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. 2. A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another. 3. That which holds, binds, or influences. Burke. 4. The burden or chorus of a song. Shak. Holding note , a note sustained in one
• POSSESSION
  The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful. Note: Possession may be either actual or constructive; actual, when a party has the immediate occupancy;
• POSSESSIVELY
  In a possessive manner.
• POSSESSORY
  Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. Possessory action or suit , an action to regain or obtain possession of something. See under Petitory.
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.
• CANDLEHOLDER
  One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance. Shak.
• FOREHOLDING
  Ominous foreboding; superstitious prognostication. L'Estrange.
• BOOKHOLDER
  1. A prompter at a theater. Beau & Fl. 2. A support for a book, holding it open, while one reads or copies from it.
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• FOOTHOLD
  A holding with the feet; firm L'Estrange.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• BEHOLDING
  Obliged; beholden. I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.
• DISPROOF
  A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.