henry : Idioms & Phrases

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benjamin henry latrobe

  • noun United States architect (born in England) whose works include the chambers of the United States Congress and the Supreme Court; considered the first professional architect in the United States (1764-1820)
    Latrobe.
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charles henry harrod

  • noun English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885)
    Harrod.
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edward henry harriman

  • noun United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)
    E. H. Harriman; Harriman.
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francis henry compton crick

  • noun English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
    Francis Crick; Crick.
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good-king-henry

  • noun European plant naturalized in North America; often collected from the wild as a potherb
    allgood; Chenopodium bonus-henricus; wild spinach; fat hen.
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henry alfred kissinger

  • noun United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
    Henry Alfred Kissinger; Kissinger.
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henry beauclerc

  • noun King of England from 1100 to 1135; youngest son of William the Conqueror; conquered Normandy in 1106 (1068-1135)
    Henry Beauclerc.
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henry bolingbroke

  • noun the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)
    Henry Bolingbroke; Bolingbroke.
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henry cavendish

  • noun 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)
    Cavendish.
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henry clay

  • noun United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852)
    the Great Compromiser; Clay.
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henry clay frick

  • noun United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)
    Frick.
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henry david thoreau

  • noun United States writer and social critic (1817-1862)
    Thoreau.
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henry engelhard steinway

  • noun United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)
    Steinway; Heinrich Engelhard Steinway; Henry Engelhard Steinway.
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henry fielding

  • noun English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)
    Fielding.
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henry fonda

  • noun United States film actor (1905-1982)
    Fonda.
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henry ford

  • noun United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
    Ford.
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henry ford ii

  • noun grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
    Ford.
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henry graham greene

  • noun English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991)
    Greene; Graham Greene.
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henry hobson richardson

  • noun United States architect (1838-1886)
    Richardson.
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henry hubert turner

  • noun United States endocrinologist (1892-1970)
    Turner.
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henry hudson

  • noun 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)
    Hudson.
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henry i

  • noun King of England from 1100 to 1135; youngest son of William the Conqueror; conquered Normandy in 1106 (1068-1135)
    Henry Beauclerc.
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henry ii

  • noun king of France from 1547 to 1559; regained Calais from the English; husband of Catherine de Medicis and father of Charles IX (1519-1559)
  • noun 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)
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henry iii

  • noun son of Henry II of France and the last Valois to be king of France (1551-1589)
  • noun son of King John and king of England from 1216 to 1272; his incompetence aroused baronial opposition led by Simon de Montfort (1207-1272)
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henry iv

  • noun 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;
    Henry IV; Henry of Navarre.
  • noun King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106)
  • noun the first Lancastrian king of England from 1399 to 1413; deposed Richard II and suppressed rebellions (1367-1413)
    Henry Bolingbroke; Bolingbroke.
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henry james

  • noun writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)
    James.
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henry john heinz

  • noun United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)
    Heinz.
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henry kenneth alfred russell

  • noun English film director (born in 1927)
    Russell; Ken Russell.
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henry kissinger

  • noun United States diplomat who served under President Nixon and President Ford (born in 1923)
    Henry Alfred Kissinger; Kissinger.
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henry laurens

  • noun leader of the American Revolution and president of the Continental Congress (1724-1792)
    Laurens.
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henry le chatelier

  • noun French chemist who formulated Le Chatelier's principle (1850-1936)
    le Chatelier.
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henry lee

  • noun soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818)
    Lee; Lighthorse Harry Lee.
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henry louis aaron

  • noun United States professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934)
    Hank Aaron; Aaron.
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henry louis gehrig

  • noun baseball player who died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1903-1941)
    Gehrig; Lou Gehrig.
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henry louis mencken

  • noun United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956)
    Mencken; H. L. Mencken.
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henry luce

  • noun United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967)
    Luce; Henry Luce.
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henry m. robert

  • noun United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
    Robert; Henry M. Robert.
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henry m. stanley

  • noun Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
    Stanley; John Rowlands; Henry M. Stanley.
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henry martyn robert

  • noun United States parliamentary authority and author (in 1876) of Robert's Rules of Order (1837-1923)
    Robert; Henry M. Robert.
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henry miller

  • noun United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)
    Miller; Henry Miller.
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henry moore

  • noun British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)
    Henry Moore; Moore.
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henry morgan

  • noun a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
    Henry Morgan; Morgan.
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henry norris russell

  • noun United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957)
    Henry Norris Russell; Russell.
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henry of navarre

  • noun 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;
    Henry IV; Henry of Navarre.
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henry oscar houghton

  • noun United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895)
    Houghton.
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henry purcell

  • noun English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695)
    Purcell.
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henry robinson luce

  • noun United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967)
    Luce; Henry Luce.
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henry rowe schoolcraft

  • noun United States geologist and ethnologist and explorer who discovered the source of the Mississippi River (1793-1864)
    Schoolcraft.
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henry russell

  • noun United States astronomer who developed a theory of stellar evolution (1877-1957)
    Henry Norris Russell; Russell.
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henry spencer moore

  • noun British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986)
    Henry Moore; Moore.
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henry steinway

  • noun United States piano maker (born in Germany) who founded a famous piano manufacturing firm in New York (1797-1871)
    Steinway; Heinrich Engelhard Steinway; Henry Engelhard Steinway.
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henry sweet

  • noun English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912)
    Sweet.
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henry the great

  • noun 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;
    Henry IV; Henry of Navarre.
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henry tudor

  • noun 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)
    Henry Tudor.
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henry v

  • noun 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)
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henry valentine miller

  • noun United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980)
    Miller; Henry Miller.
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henry vi

  • noun 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)
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henry vii

  • noun King of the Germans and Holy Roman Emperor (1275-1313)
  • noun 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)
    Henry Tudor.
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henry viii

  • noun 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)
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henry villard

  • noun United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900)
    Villard.
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henry wadsworth longfellow

  • noun United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems (1807-1882)
    Longfellow.
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henry ward beecher

  • noun United States clergyman who was a leader for the abolition of slavery (1813-1887)
    Beecher.
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henry watson fowler

  • noun English lexicographer who wrote a well-known book on English usage (1858-1933)
    Fowler.
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henry wheeler shaw

  • noun United States humorist who wrote about rural life (1818-1885)
    Josh Billings; Shaw.
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henry's law

  • noun (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
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hooray henry

  • noun a lively and ineffectual upper-class young man
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james augustus henry murray

  • noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
    Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; Sir James Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray.
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james henry leigh hunt

  • noun British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859)
    Hunt; Leigh Hunt.
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john henry

  • noun 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
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john henry newman

  • noun English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890)
    Newman; Cardinal Newman.
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john henry o'hara

  • noun United States writer (1905-1970)
    O'Hara.
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joseph henry

  • noun United States physicist who studied electromagnetic phenomena (1791-1878)
    Henry.
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lewis henry morgan

  • noun United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)
    Morgan.
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louis henry sullivan

  • noun United States architect known for his steel framed skyscrapers and for coining the phrase `form follows function' (1856-1924)
    Sullivan; Louis Sullivan; Louis Henri Sullivan.
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mrs. henry wood

  • noun English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887)
    Ellen Price Wood; Wood.
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o. henry

  • noun United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910)
    William Sydney Porter; Porter.
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patrick henry

  • noun a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799)
    Henry.
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president william henry harrison

  • noun 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)
    President Harrison; President William Henry Harrison; Harrison.
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richard henry lee

  • noun leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794)
    Lee.
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richard henry tawney

  • noun English economist remembered for his studies of the development of capitalism (1880-1962)
    Tawney.
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sir henry bessemer

  • noun British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898)
    Bessemer.
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sir henry joseph wood

  • noun English conductor (1869-1944)
    Sir Henry Joseph Wood; Wood.
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sir henry maxmilian beerbohm

  • noun English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956)
    Beerbohm; Max Beerbohm.
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sir henry morgan

  • noun a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)
    Henry Morgan; Morgan.
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sir henry morton stanley

  • noun Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
    Stanley; John Rowlands; Henry M. Stanley.
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sir henry percy

  • noun English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)
    Percy; Harry Hotspur; Hotspur.
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sir henry rider haggard

  • noun British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
    Rider Haggard; Haggard.
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sir henry wood

  • noun English conductor (1869-1944)
    Sir Henry Joseph Wood; Wood.
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sir james augustus henry murray

  • noun Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
    Sir James Augustus Murray; James Augustus Murray; Murray; Sir James Murray; James Murray; James Augustus Henry Murray.
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thomas henry huxley

  • noun English biologist and a leading exponent of Darwin's theory of evolution (1825-1895)
    Huxley; Thomas Huxley.
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william henry

  • noun English chemist who studied the quantities of gas absorbed by water at different temperatures and under different pressures (1775-1836)
    Henry.
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william henry beveridge

  • noun 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)
    Beveridge; First Baron Beveridge.
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william henry fox talbot

  • noun English inventor and pioneer in photography who published the first book illustrated with photographs (1800-1877)
    Talbot; Fox Talbot.
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william henry gates

  • noun United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
    Bill Gates; Gates.
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william henry harrison

  • noun 9th President of the United States; caught pneumonia during his inauguration and died shortly after (1773-1841)
    President Harrison; President William Henry Harrison; Harrison.
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william henry hoover

  • noun United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
    William Hoover; Hoover.
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william henry hudson

  • noun English naturalist (born in Argentina) (1841-1922)
    W. H. Hudson; Hudson.
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william henry mauldin

  • noun United States cartoonist noted for his drawings of soldiers in battle (1921-2003)
    Bill Mauldin; Mauldin.
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william henry pratt

  • noun United States film actor (born in England) noted for his performances in horror films (1887-1969)
    Boris Karloff; Karloff.
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william henry seward

  • noun United States politician who as Secretary of State in 1867 arranged for the purchase of Alaska from Russia (known at the time as Seward's Folly) (1801-1872)
    Seward.
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