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The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables. Pope.

a symbol of truth; third, the phonetic, consisting of symbols employed as syllables of a word, or as letters of the alphabet, having a certain sound, as a hawk represented the vowel a.

et to hear and answer such high things. Shak. Plain living and high thinking are no more. Wordsworth.

Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.

, of the genus Gracula, and allied to the starlings. They are easily taught to speak many words. [Written also hill mynah.] See Myna. -- Hill partridge (Zoöl.), a partridge of the genus Aborophila, of which numerous species in habit Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Hill tit (Zoöl.), one of numerous species of sm…

the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hindi with the addition of Persian and Arabic words.

iment. What various hindrances we meet. Cowper. Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.

To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.

ound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew. Shod with steel, We hissed along the polished ice. Wordsworth.

Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything. [Written also whoa, and, formerly, hoo.] The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried "Hoo!" Chaucer. An herald on a scaffold made an hoo. Chaucer.

Low, flat land. Wordsworth. The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms. Tennyson. Holm thrush (Zoöl.), the missel thrush.

Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

which the passion of our Savior is commemorated. -- Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ." Wordsworth.

ome; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton. Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth.

A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench.

One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.

le and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words.

A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear. [Written also homonyme.]

A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.