Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WITH'-HOLD, v.t. [pret. and pp. withheld. with and hold.]

1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action. Withhold – your hasty hand. – Spenser. If our passions may be withheld. – Kettlewell.
2. To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition. The sun does not withhold his light.