| abhenry | (n) a unit of inductance equal to one billionth of a henry |
| good-king-henry | (n) European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb, Syn. fat hen, wild spinach, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, allgood |
| henry | (n) a unit of inductance in which an induced electromotive force of one volt is produced when the current is varied at the rate of one ampere per second, Syn. H |
| henry | (n) English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836), Syn. William Henry |
| henry | (n) a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799), Syn. Patrick Henry |
| henry | (n) United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878), Syn. Joseph Henry |
| henry i | (n) King of England from 1100 to 1135; youngest son of William the Conqueror; conquered Normandy in 1106 (1068-1135), Syn. Henry Beauclerc |
| henry ii | (n) king of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559) |
| henry ii | (n) first Plantagenet King of England; instituted judicial and financial reforms; quarreled with archbishop Becket concerning the authority of the Crown over the church (1133-1189) |
| henry iii | (n) son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589) |
| henry iii | (n) son of King John and king of England from 1216 to 1272; his incompetence aroused baronial opposition led by Simon de Montfort (1207-1272) |
| henry iv | (n) king of France from 1589 to 1610; although he was leader of the Huguenot armies, when he succeeded the Catholic Henry III and founded the Bourbon dynasty in 1589 he established religious freedom in France, Syn. Henry of Navarre, Henry the Great |
| henry iv | (n) King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106) |
| henry iv | (n) the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413), Syn. Bolingbroke, Henry Bolingbroke |
| henry's law | (n) (chemistry) law formulated by the English chemist William Henry; the amount of a gas that will be absorbed by water increases as the gas pressure increases |
| henry v | (n) son of Henry IV and King of England from 1413 to 1422; reopened the Hundred Years' War and defeated the French at Agincourt (1387-1422) |
| henry vi | (n) son of Henry V who as an infant succeeded his father and was King of England from 1422 to 1461; he was taken prisoner in 1460 and Edward IV was proclaimed king; he was rescued and regained the throne in 1470 but was recaptured and murdered in the Tower of London (1421-1471) |
| henry vii | (n) King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1275-1313) |
| henry vii | (n) first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509), Syn. Henry Tudor |
| henry viii | (n) son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547) |
| hooray henry | (n) a lively and ineffectual upper-class young man |
| john henry | (n) hero of American folk tales; portrayed as an enormously strong black man who worked on the railroads and died from exhaustion after winning a contest with a steam drill |
| millihenry | (n) a unit of inductance equal to one thousandth of a henry |
| aaron | (n) United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934), Syn. Henry Louis Aaron, Hank Aaron |
| beecher | (n) United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887), Syn. Henry Ward Beecher |
| beerbohm | (n) English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956), Syn. Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm, Max Beerbohm |
| bessemer | (n) British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898), Syn. Sir Henry Bessemer |
| beveridge | (n) British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963), Syn. William Henry Beveridge, First Baron Beveridge |
| cavendish | (n) British chemist and physicist who established that water is a compound of hydrogen and oxygen and who calculated the density of the earth (1731-1810), Syn. Henry Cavendish |
| clay | (n) United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852), Syn. the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay |
| crick | (n) English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004), Syn. Francis Henry Compton Crick, Francis Crick |
| fielding | (n) English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754), Syn. Henry Fielding |
| fonda | (n) United States film actor (1905-1982), Syn. Henry Fonda |
| ford | (n) grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987), Syn. Henry Ford II |
| ford | (n) United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947), Syn. Henry Ford |
| fowler | (n) English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933), Syn. Henry Watson Fowler |
| frick | (n) United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919), Syn. Henry Clay Frick |
| gates | (n) United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955), Syn. Bill Gates, William Henry Gates |
| gehrig | (n) baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941), Syn. Henry Louis Gehrig, Lou Gehrig |
| greene | (n) English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991), Syn. Graham Greene, Henry Graham Greene |
| haggard | (n) British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925), Syn. Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Rider Haggard |
| harriman | (n) United States railway tycoon (1848-1909), Syn. E. H. Harriman, Edward Henry Harriman |
| harrison | (n) 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841), Syn. President William Henry Harrison, President Harrison, William Henry Harrison |
| harrod | (n) English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885), Syn. Charles Henry Harrod |
| heinz | (n) United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919), Syn. Henry John Heinz |
| hoover | (n) United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932), Syn. William Hoover, William Henry Hoover |
| houghton | (n) United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895), Syn. Henry Oscar Houghton |
| hudson | (n) English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922), Syn. W. H. Hudson, William Henry Hudson |
| hudson | (n) English navigator who discovered the Hudson River; in 1610 he attempted to winter in Hudson Bay but his crew mutinied and set him adrift to die (1565-1611), Syn. Henry Hudson |
| hunt | (n) British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859), Syn. Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt |
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| 赫胥黎 | [Hè xū lí, ㄏㄜˋ ㄒㄩ ㄌㄧˊ, 赫 胥 黎] Huxley (name); Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), British evolutionary scientist and champion of Darwin; Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist #106,492 [Add to Longdo] |
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