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Ho   /hoʊ/   Listen
proper noun
Ho  n.  (Chem.) The chemical symbol for Holmium.



interjection
Hoa, Ho  interj.  
1.
Halloo! attend! a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. "What noise there, ho?" "Ho! who's within?"
2.
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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Ho" Quotes from Famous Books



... rapscallions, d—n them, and thrashing them, too, yonder in his country. She stuck by his side; ay, like a good plucked one she did, until it became palpable that, if there was to be a son and heir to the name, she had better go and attend to its coming somewhere else, in peace. Ho, ho, ho! Well, England was the safest place, of course, and, for her, the natural one. She came and offered herself to us on the plea of relationship. I was rather taken aback at first, I own; but, gad, boy, when I saw the woman, after hearing ...
— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle

... the words [Greek: ho ermeneutai Petros] are to be considered as the words of St. John, or of his transcribers? The question may appear startling to some, but my copy of the Syriac New Testament is ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 • Various

... six pocket-knives, three sets of Machzorim or Festival Prayer-books, and the like—that his father barred up the door very carefully and in the middle of the night, hearing a mouse scampering across the floor, woke up in a cold sweat and threw open the bedroom window and cried "Ho! Buglers!" But the "Buglers" made no sign of being scared, everything was still and nothing purloined, so Jonathan took a reprimand from his disturbed wife and curled himself ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... "Ho!" said the captain, chirking up. "I could 'a' told ye that the fust time I laid eyes on ye. But I'll tell ye this: ye can't do nothing in a hurry in this country. The only place where a man can do things up as soon as he thinks of 'em is on the blue water. We don't ...
— The Lovely Lady • Mary Austin

... the place. Emetrius, is thrown out of his saddle a spear's length. Lycurgus is overthrown, and rolls on the ground, horse and man; and Palamon is dragged by main force to the stake. Then Theseus rose up where he sat, and cried, 'Ho! no more; Arcite of Thebes hath won Emily!' at which the people shouted so loudly that it almost seemed the mighty lists would fall. Arcite now put up his helmet, and, curveting his horse through the open space, smiled to Emily, ...
— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith


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