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proper noun

Ho n. (Chem.) The chemical symbol for Holmium.

interjection

Hoa, Ho interj.

Halloo! attend! a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. "What noise there, ho?" "Ho! who's within?"

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!"" "An herald on a scaffold made an hoo."

noun

Hoa, Ho n. A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace. "There is no ho with them."

pronoun

Ho pron. Who. (Obs.) Note: In some Chaucer MSS.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ho" Quotes from Famous Books

... ho!" he shouted. "But you shall not take me for a window- curtain spy! That is a fine reputation I give myself with ...

— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington

... to me; they are quick to respond to hygienic treatment and easy to resolve. I've fixed lots of them. But an inflamed gallbladder is in no way ho-hum to the person afflicted with it. I've been frequently told that there are no worse pains a body can create than an inflamed gallbladder or the sensations accompanying the passing of a gall stone. ...

— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon

... west wind off the prairie; Ho, north wind off the pine; Ho, myriad azure lakes, hill-clasped, Like cups of living wine; Ho, mighty river rolling; Ho, fallow, field and fen; By a thousand voices nature calls, To fire the ...

— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter

... merrily. "And six weeks ago if any one had come to me in my Top Shelf where I carried on my profession, and outlined this for me"—she waved her hand around the room—"I'd have called the janitor to put out an unsafe person. Hey-ho!" And then the brown head was bent over the problem of an order which had ...

— The Man Thou Gavest • Harriet T. Comstock

... looked like a dazzling butterfly or stray bird of paradise. His white garb glistened at every point with gems, and from his shoulders, where it was fastened with large sapphire elasps, depended a long mantle of cloth of gold, bordered thickly with swansdown,—this he held up negligently in one hand as ho remained for a moment in full view of the assembled soldiery, graciously acknowledging their enthusiastic greetings, . . then with easy and unhasting tread he mounted the rest of the stairway, followed ...

— Ardath - The Story of a Dead Self • Marie Corelli

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