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Houyhnhnm

Definition: Houyhnhnm

Houyhnhnm

Noun

1. One of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in Swift's Gulliver's Travels.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Houyhnhnm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references)


Use in Literature: Houyhnhnm

TitleAuthorQuote

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

The word Houyhnhnm, in their tongue, signifies a horse, and in its etymology, the perfection of nature.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Specialty Definition: Houyhnhnm

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satiric Gulliver's Travels. The name can be pronounced Whin-hin-ems, as if 'whinny' were linked to the -nym element of, for example, 'synonym'.

Some of Jonathan Swift's dark vision affects the subtext of the movies Planet of the Apes.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Houyhnhnm."

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Anagrams: Houyhnhnm

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-h-h-m-n-n-o-u-y"

-5 letters: homy, hunh, hymn, mony, muon, noun.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Houyhnhnm


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 6F 75 79 68 6E 68 6E 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101111 01110101 01111001 01101000 01101110 01101000 01101110 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 0075 0079 0068 006E 0068 006E 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Quotations: Fiction
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography 		5. Bibliography


  

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