Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete spelling of
high . - An obsolete spelling of
hie . - noun In mathematics, a prefix used as an abbreviation of
hyperbolic : as, hysin x for sinh x, etc. - See
hi .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete High.
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Examples
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What will change? hy is it that Democrats will not let GS stand on their own under already established Reg. rules and if the fail, they fail.
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W hy is it that we Jews, who can be so damn funny, can also be so not funny?
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W hy is it that we Jews, who can be so damn funny, can also be so not funny?
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W hy is it that we Jews, who can be so damn funny, can also be so not funny?
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Kleingeld: Nee, ek ken nie vir Hector Petersen nie, ek weet nie wie hy is nie, ek kan nie sê of iemand op hom geskiet het nie.
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Any vacancy occurring in said board may be filled for the unexpired term hy con - current ballot of the city council, as hereinbefore pro - vided.
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Any vacancy occurring in said board from any cause may be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term hy said town at any legal meeting called for the purpose.
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Hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hy - pothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy ....
Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968
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Mrs. Phipps had the art to persuade him that she had the disposal of what was then called a hyæna -- that is, an heiress -- an immense Jamaica heiress, in whom she was willing to give or sell her interest to Charles
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801
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Already, it is known that a process known as hy ...
Medindia Health News 2009
mollusque commented on the word hy
Haste, speed (obsolete).
December 8, 2007