Oliver Wendell Holmes

noun

John Haynes

[heynz] , 1879–1964, U.S. clergyman.

Oliver Wen·dell

[wen-dl] , 1809–94, U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, and physician.

his son, Oliver Wendell, 1841–1935, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1902–32.

Sherlock, a detective in many mystery stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Holmes (həʊmz)

—n
1.	Oliver Wendell. 1809--94, US author, esp of humorous essays, such as The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858) and its sequels
2.	his son, Oliver Wendell. 1841--1935, US jurist, noted for his liberal judgments
3.	Paul. born 1950, New Zealand radio and television broadcaster; presenter of The Paul Holmes Breakfast, a popular breakfast radio show, since 1987

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Holmes

(hōmz, hōlmz) Pronunciation Key
British geologist who pioneered a method of determining the age of rocks by measuring their radioactive components. He was also an early supporter of Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift.

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holmes definition

[homz]

n.
one's pal or friend. (A variant of homes. See also Sherlock. Usually a term of address.) : What do you think about that, holmes?

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"If American has points of inferiority to English, they are merely matters of degree; if the Americans are, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said in 1858, "the Romans of the modern world—the great assimilating people," the English are only to an exceedingly limited degree its Greeks. They are tarred too much with the same brush of pragmatism, democracy, industrialism, and materialism for deep cleavage. Even America is not wholly democratic culturally; there are remarkable enclaves of aristocratic culture in the cosmopolitan and tradition-bound society of the Eastern seaboard, whose members look east toward Europe far more than they look west towards the heartland of Americanism."

-Harry C. Allen

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