(law) Describing an agreement or contract where one party assumes all liability resulting from it, thus making the agreement "harmless" for the other party.

plural of Agricultural Holdings Act tenancy

(property law, England & Wales) Synonym of full agricultural tenancy.

(idiomatic) To demonstrate oneself to be capable; to provide a respectable performance or worthy competition; to stick up for oneself.

(idiomatic) To be patient; to wait.

(idiomatic) To refrain from talking about something.

Do not discharge a weapon. Used originally for weapons needing a spark or lighting of a fuse to ignite gunpowder; now sometimes used to mean any weapon launching a projectile.

To refrain from criticism.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hold, one's, breath. To keep air in one's lungs, pausing noticeably before exhaling after previously inhaling.

(idiomatic, obsolete, informal) An estate held by a man during his wife's life.