hold up (v.) Old form(s): hold-vp, vp
support, uphold, sustain
2H4 I.iii.17[Lord Bardolph to Hastings] Whether our present five-and-twenty thousand / May hold up head without Northumberland
2H4 IV.ii.35[Archbishop to Prince John] The time misordered doth, in common sense, / Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form / To hold our safety up
3H6 I.i.46[Warwick to York] The proudest he that holds up Lancaster
KJ II.i.364[King Philip to Hubert, of the French and Arthur] that here hold up his right
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