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  • 51hound somebody out (of something) — ˌhound sb ˈout (of sth) | ˈhound sb from sth derived usually passive to force sb to leave a job or a place, especially by making their life difficult and unpleasant • They were hounded out of the country. • He claims he has been hounded from his… …

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  • 52hound somebody from something — ˌhound sb ˈout (of sth) | ˈhound sb from sth derived usually passive to force sb to leave a job or a place, especially by making their life difficult and unpleasant • They were hounded out of the country. • He claims he has been hounded from his… …

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  • 53Hound & Horn — originally subtitled a Harvard Miscellany , was a literary quarterly founded by Harvard undergrads Lincoln Kirstein and Varian Fry in 1927. At the time, the college s literary magazine The Harvard Advocate did not accept their work, so they conv …

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  • 54Hound, Hampshire — Hound is a village in south Hampshire, England.References*CoorOS …

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  • 55Hound point — Hound Point, is a marine terminal just East of the Forth Bridge in the Firth of Forth, Scotland. First opened in 1975 it is owned and operated by BP as an oil export terminal for North Sea oil and is the largest such facility in Scotland.The… …

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  • 56Hound of the Baskervilles — Hound of the Bas|ker|villes, The (1902) a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in which the ↑detective Sherlock Holmes tries to find out who is responsible for killing two people who seem to have been attacked by a large hunting dog, but who have… …

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  • 57hound's-tongue — hound s′ tongue n. pln a coarse, weedy plant, Cynoglossum officinale, of the borage family, with dull purplish red flowers, prickly nutlets, and hairy leaves shaped like a dog s tongue • Etymology: bef. 1000 …

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  • 58hound's-tooth check — hound s′ tooth (or hounds′tooth ) check′ n. tex a pattern of broken or jagged checks, used on a variety of fabrics • Etymology: 1935–40 …

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  • 59hound's-tongue — [houndz′tuŋ΄] n. any of a genus (Cynoglossum) of weedy plants of the borage family, with white, blue, or reddish flowers and hairy, tongue shaped leaves …

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  • 60hound|fish — «HOWND FIHSH», noun, plural fish|es or (collectively) fish. any one of various fishes, such as certain small sharks and certain large voracious fishes …

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