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471 words match “HOLLAND”

HOMONYMY n.
Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations. Holland. Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons. Fuller.
HORTATORY a.
Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.
HOVE v.
To rise; to swell; to heave; to cause to swell. [Obs. or Scot.] Holland. Burns.
HUCK v.
To higgle in trading. [Obs.] Holland.
HUMANITY n.
n classical and polite literature. Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland.
HURLBAT n.
See Whirlbat. [Obs.] Holland.
IMAGER n.
images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. [Obs.] Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland.
IMAGINATE a.
Imaginative. [Obs.] Holland.
IMMATCHABLE a.
Matchless; peerless. [Obs.] Holland.
IMPALPABLE a.
Not material; intangible; incorporeal. "Impalpable, void, and bodiless." Holland.
IMPARK v.
common; hence, to inclose or shut up. They . . . impark them [the sheep] within hurdles. Holland.
IMPARTIBILITY n.
The quality of being incapable of division into parts; indivisibility. Holland.
IMPRESSION n.
comets and impressions in the air. Milton. A fiery impression falling from out of Heaven. Holland.
IMPUISSANCE n.
Lack of power; inability. Bacon. Their own impuissance and weakness. Holland.
IMPUNITY n.
though slow to wrath, Is neimpunity defied. Cowper. The impunity and also the recompense. Holland.
INCARNATE a.
Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] Holland.
INCERTITUDE n.
Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt. The incertitude and instability of this life. Holland. He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution. I. Taylor.
INCORRUPTIBILITY n.
The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.
INDOLENCY n.
Indolence. [Obs.] Holland.
INFILE v.
To arrange in a file or rank; to place in order. [Obs.] Holland.
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