▪ I. held, ppl. a.
(hɛld)
[pa. pple. of hold v.]
Kept in, restrained, detained. Also with adverbs.
| c 1611 Chapman Iliad xxiv. 275 With held vp hands. 1820 Keats Lamia i. 300 While, like held breath, the stars drew in their panting fires. a 1850 Rossetti Dante & Circ. ii. (1874) 287 Still whispering under my held breath. 1891 Pall Mall G. 2 Feb. 2/1 The coda with its held notes for the bass clarinet and bassoon deserves close attention. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 7/2 A long string of ‘held-up’ cars. |
▪ II. † held, helde, n. Obs.
[Late OE. helde fem., allegiance, fealty: cf. OE. hyldo, hyld favour, grace, loyalty, allegiance = OS. huldi, OHG. huldî (Ger. huld), Goth. type *hulþei, f. hulþs, OHG., OS., OE. hold gracious, kind.]
1. Grace, favour, kindness.
| a 1000 Cædmon's Gen. 301 Hyld hæfde his ferlorene. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 69 God..ȝefe us mihte þurh his held þet ure leue beo ure sceld. a 1310 in Wright Lyric P. x. 37 Y-here thou me nou, hendest in helde. |
2. Loyalty to the liege lord, allegiance.
| a 1000 Laws of Edgar iv. c. 12 (Schmid) For eowrum hyldum, þe ᵹe me symble cyddon. c 1100 O.E. Chron. an. 1097 He þær on þæs cynges Willelmes heldan to cynge ᵹesette. 1297 R. Glouc. (1724) 285 Understonde þe bet efsone, and hold me þyn helde. a 1300 Floriz & Bl. 397 Þat he þe bere al þe helde þat man schal to his louerd ȝelde. |
▪ III. held
obs. erron. form of yield v.