"hold by the button" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds by the button",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding by the button",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held by the button",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held by the button",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> by the button"
      },
      "expansion": "hold by the button (third-person singular simple present holds by the button, present participle holding by the button, simple past and past participle held by the button)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1798, A Clergyman of the County of Kent, Crude Thoughts:",
          "text": "When a slanderer addresses himself to any one, let him only withhold his attention, while he argues thus with himself: --- Why does this man hold me by the button, and seem so desirous of calling my attention to another's failings?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To detain in conversation to the point of weariness; to bore; to buttonhole."
      ],
      "id": "en-hold_by_the_button-en-verb-5JNhnQ6x",
      "links": [
        [
          "bore",
          "bore"
        ],
        [
          "buttonhole",
          "buttonhole"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, idiomatic, transitive) To detain in conversation to the point of weariness; to bore; to buttonhole."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold by the button"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "holds by the button",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "holding by the button",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held by the button",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "held by the button",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hold<,,held> by the button"
      },
      "expansion": "hold by the button (third-person singular simple present holds by the button, present participle holding by the button, simple past and past participle held by the button)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1798, A Clergyman of the County of Kent, Crude Thoughts:",
          "text": "When a slanderer addresses himself to any one, let him only withhold his attention, while he argues thus with himself: --- Why does this man hold me by the button, and seem so desirous of calling my attention to another's failings?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To detain in conversation to the point of weariness; to bore; to buttonhole."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bore",
          "bore"
        ],
        [
          "buttonhole",
          "buttonhole"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, idiomatic, transitive) To detain in conversation to the point of weariness; to bore; to buttonhole."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hold by the button"
}