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hoder
  • n  (Norse mythology) a blind god; misled by Loki, he kills his brother Balder by throwing a shaft of mistletoe
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hodgepodge
  • n  a motley assortment of things
  • n  a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
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hodgkin
  • n  English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)
  • n  English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
  • n  English physiologist who, with Andrew Huxley, discovered the role of potassium and sodium atoms in the transmission of the nerve impulse (1914-1998)
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hodgkin's disease
  • n  a malignant disorder in which there is progressive (but painless) enlargement of lymph tissue followed by enlargement of the spleen and liver
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hodman
  • n  a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers
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hodoscope
  • n  (physics) scientific instrument that traces the path of a charged particle
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hodr
  • n  (Norse mythology) a blind god; misled by Loki, he kills his brother Balder by throwing a shaft of mistletoe
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hodur
  • n  (Norse mythology) a blind god; misled by Loki, he kills his brother Balder by throwing a shaft of mistletoe
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hoe
  • n  a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
  • v  dig with a hoe
    He is hoeing the flower beds
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hoecake
  • n  thin usually unleavened johnnycake made of cornmeal; originally baked on the blade of a hoe over an open fire (southern)
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hoek van holland
  • n  a cape on the southwestern coast of the Netherlands near Rotterdam
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hoenir
  • n  (Norse mythology) one of the Aesir having a strong and beautiful body but a dull mind
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hoffa
  • n  United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975)
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