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noun
Abbreviation of homeobox.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
hypohalous acid
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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verb
To hock; to hamstring; to cripple; to disable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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History
Inherited from Middle English hoxen, reduction or back-formation of earlier hoxenen, from the noun *hoxene (only attested as hokschyne, with alteration after schyne), from Old English hōhsinu, from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄hasinu, from Proto-Germanic *hanhasinwō, from *hanhaz (“heel”) + *senawō (“sinew”). Compare hough, huxen, and sinew.
