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To: MythMan who wrote (20687)	3/29/2000 11:53:00 AM
From: lorrie coey	Respond to of 42523

"A Rare Earth Element"...cool, theres much more to 'HO' than I ever knew...[and Taurus is an earthsign...whoa!] pidc.com Check out the crystallography, webelements.com [syn: HO, "holmium"... Atomic Number 67] "Ho" Ho \Ho\, Hoa \Hoa\ (h[=o]), interj. [Cf. F. & G. ho.] 1. Halloo! attend! -- a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach. "What noise there, ho?" --Shak. "Ho! who's within?" --Shak. 2. [Perhaps corrupted from 'hold']; -but cf. French, 'hau' = stop! and English 'whoa. Stop! stand still! hold! -- a word now used by teamsters, but formerly to order the cessation of anything. [Written also {whoa}, and, formerly, 'hoo'.] The duke . . . pulled out his sword and cried ``Hoo!' --Chaucer. An herald on a scaffold made an hoo. --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913) Ho \Ho\, pron. Who. [Obs.] Note: In some Chaucer MSS. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913) Ho \Ho\, Hoa \Hoa\, n. [See {Ho}, interj., 2.] A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace. "There is no ho with them."--Decker. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913) Hydroxyl Hydrox"yl, n. [Hydro-, 2 + oxygen + -yl.] (Chem.) A compound radical, or unsaturated group, HO, consisting of one* atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. It is a characteristic part of the hydrates, the alcohols, the oxygen acids, etc. Ho n : a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds...