Holding
the term in Scots law used to denote the manner in which heritable estate is holden, and corresponding to tenure in English law.
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These 15 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Holding, Holigarna, Holkar.
Holigarna
a genus of plants, order Anacardiaceæ. The fruits of the species H. longifolia, with those of another plant of the same order, furnish the black varnish of Sylhet, which is much used in India for lacquer work.
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Holkar
the name of a powerful Mahratta family, the members of which have at various times been formidable enemies to the British Empire in India. The founder of the family was Mulhar Rao Holkar, born in the Deccan, 1693. HOLLAND. See NETHERLANDS, THE.
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Holland
or Hollands, plain-woven linen cloth. Holland was at one time especially noted for its linens. Moreover, linen cloth from all over Europe was sent to Holland to be bleached. In this way, the custom arose of calling linen, especially of a fine quality, Holland linen or Hollands. At present the name usually designates unbleached or partly bleached linen. It is sometimes called brown linen. Window holland, or holland shade cloth, is a fabric used exclusively for window shades.
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Holland
. See Netherlands
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Holland
or PARTS OF HOL- LAND, a district of England, one of the three portions into which the county of E. Lincoln is divided. It occupies the S. part of the county round the Wash, and consists almost entirely of low, marsh, and fen land.
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Holland
a fine and close kind of linen, so called from its first being manufactured in Holland; also a coarser linen fabric, unbleached or dyed brown, used for covering furniture, carpets, etc., or for making window-blinds or the like.
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Holland
NEW, the name formerly merry Ausgiven to the island or continent of tralia.
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Holland (City in Ottawa co Mich)
a city in Ottawa co., Mich., at the mouth of the Black river, on Lake Michigan, and on the Père Marquette railroad, 25 miles S. W. of Grand Rapids. It is the seat of Hope College and the Western Theological Seminary, both institutions of the American Reformed Church, and has steamship connections with Chicago and other lake ports. It has manufactures of furniture, leather, pianos, laundry baskets, etc., daily and weekly newspapers, electric lights and State banks. Pop. (1910) 10,490; (1920) 12,183.
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Holland (II)
JOSIAH GILBERT, an American author; born in Belchertown, Mass., July 24, 1819. He was graduated at the Berkshire Medical College, at Pittsfield, in 1844. He soon abandoned his profession, however, and became assistant editor of the Springfield "Republican." In 1870 Mr. Holland removed to New York, where he founded "Scribner's Monthly," which he conducted successfully till his death, Oct. 12, 1881. In this magazine appeared his novels, "Arthur Bonnicastle" (1873); "The Story of Sevenoaks" (1875); and "Nicholas Minturn" (1876). His "Timothy Titcircomb's Letters" (1858) had a large culation only exceeded by his "Life of Lincoln." His most popular poems are "Bitter Sweet" (1858); "Kathrina" (1867); and "The Mistress of the Manse" (1874).
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Holland (III)
THOMAS ERSKINE, an English jurist; born in Brighton, July 17, 1835. He was educated at Oxford; was called to the bar in 1863; and in 1874 was elected Chicele Professor of International Law. His monumental " work is "The Elements of Jurisprudence (1880). Among his other publications "An Essay on the most notable are: Composition Deeds" (1864); ; "The Institutes of Justinian" (1873); "The Euro- Eastern Question" pean Concert in the (1885); "A Manual of Naval Prize in Interna- Law" (1888); and "Studies tional Law" (1898).
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Holland (IV)
WILLIAM J(ACOB), an American zoologist born in Jamaica, West Indies, in 1848. He graduated from the Moravian College and Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Pa., in in 1869. 1867, and from Amherst College He studied also at Princeton Theological Seminary. After serving as principal in schools in Massachusetts several high he became a Moravian minister and was . pastor in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh From 1891 to 1901 he was chancellor of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now the University of Pittsburgh). In 1898 he became director of the Carserved negie Institute at Pittsburgh. He as naturalist in several expeditions. He was a member of many scientific societies both in the United States and in foreign countries. His published readings include "The Butterfly Book" (1898); "To the River Platte and Back" (1913); "The Butterfly Guide" (1915). He also published many scientific papers. He was the editor of "Annals" and "Memoirs" of the Carnegie Museum.
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Holland (JOHN P an Irish-American)
JOHN P., an Irish-American submarine inventor. He was born at Liseannor, Ireland, and received his preliminary education at the Limerick Christian Brothers' School. After private study he became a school teacher, about remaining in that occupation for in it ten years in Ireland and continuing in New Jersey, after he came to Ameran engineering turn of ica. He had mind, and the threatening possibilities and of a war between the United States Great Britain suggested to him the idea of an undersea boat that might aid in destroying the British navy. His incesresant experiments in this direction sulted in plans for a submarine torpedo boat, which he laid before the U. S. government in 1875. His first vessel was of wood, and was only a partial success, but his boat, the "Holland," built at Elizabeth, N. J., proved successful and in 1898 was purchased by the government. Before he died his idea was developed, but little lucrative advantage died came to him on that account. He in 1914 at a time when his invention was about to win signal results in the European war.
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Holland (SIR HENRY an English physician)
SIR HENRY, an English physician; born in Knutsford, Cheshire, in Oct. 27, 1788. He wrote "Travels Albania," "Thessaly"; settled in London in 1816, and soon became a leader was in his profession. In 1828 he elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; in 1840 he was appointed physician-in-ordinary to the prince conordinary sort, and in 1852 physician-in- Notes and to the queen. His "Medical Reflections" was published in 1839. He died in London, Oct. 27, 1873.
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Hollander
JACOB HARRY, an American economist; born in Baltimore in 1871. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1891 and was associate professor professor of finance at that institution until 1900, when he became assistant professor of political economy. In 1904 he was appointed full professor in this subject. He was secretary of the Bimetallic Commission in 1897. While engaged in financial work in Porto Rico he was appointed treasurer of that island by President McKinley. After introducing a successful tax system, he resigned in 1901. He was special commissioner to investigate financial conditions in San Domingo and until 1908 was financial advisor of the Dominican Republic. He published much on economic subjects. His writings include "A Study in Municipal Activity" (1894); "David Ricardo" (1911); "The Abolition of Poverty" (1914). (1914)
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