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Nov 30, 2009
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Hou•yhn•hnm



Pronunciation: (hOO-in'um, hwin'um, win'-), [key]
n.
(in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) one of a race of horses endowed with reason, who rule the Yahoos, a race of degraded, brutish creatures having human form.

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