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Webster 1913 Edition


Houyhnhnm

Hou-yhnhnm′

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Noun.
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.