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Webster 1913 Edition

Withhold

With-hold′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp.
Withheld
;
p. p.
Withheld
,
Obs. or Archaic
Withholden
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Withholding
.]
[
With
again, against, back +
hold
.]
1.
To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
Withhold
, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand
From knitting league with him.
Spenser.
2.
To retain; to keep back; not to grant;
as, to
withhold
assent to a proposition
.
Forbid who will, none shall from me
withhold

Longer thy offered good.
Milton.
3.
To keep; to maintain; to retain.
[Obs.]
To
withhold
it the more easily in heart.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Withhold

WITHHOLD

,
Verb.
T.
pret. and pp. withheld. [with and hold.]
1.
TO hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
Withhold--your hasty hand.
If our passions may be withheld.
2.
To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. The sun does not withhold his light.

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