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Houyhnhnm

Houyhnhnm Meaning & Definition
Houyhnhnm Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Houyhnhnm?

[n] one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in Swift's Gulliver's Travels

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Houyhnhnm In Webster's Dictionary

\Hou*yhnhnm"\, n. One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.

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