GCIDE: Defining HO using "exact" search strategy.
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| Source: gcide | Ho \Ho\, pron. Who. [Obs.]
Note: In some Chaucer MSS. Ho
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| Source: gcide | Ho \Ho\, Hoa \Hoa\, n. [See {Ho}, interj., 2.] A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace. [1913 Webster]
There is no ho with them. --Decker.
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| Source: gcide | Ho \Ho\, prop. n. (Chem.) The chemical symbol for Holmium. [PJC] Ho
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| Source: gcide | Ho \Ho\, Hoa \Hoa\ (h[=o]), interj. [Cf. F. & G. ho.] 1. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. "What noise there, ho?" --Shak. "Ho! who's within?" --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. [Perhaps corrupted fr. hold; but cf. F. hau stop! and E. whoa.] Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything. [Written also {whoa}, and, formerly, {hoo}.] [1913 Webster]
The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried "Hoo!" --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
An herald on a scaffold made an hoo. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
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| Source: gcide | Hydroxyl \Hy*drox"yl\, n. [Hydro-, 2 + oxygen + -yl.] (Chem.) A compound radical, or unsaturated group, {HO}, consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc. [1913 Webster]
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