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Pronunciation : Ho
Part of Speech : pron.
Definition : Defn: Who. [Obs.] In some Chaucer MSS.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Ho, Hoa
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [See Ho, interj., 2.]
Definition : Defn: A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace. There is no ho with them. Decker.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Ho, Hoa
Part of Speech : interj.
Etymology : [Cf. F. & G. ho.]
Definition : 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. Etym: [Perhaps corrupted fr. hold; but cf. F. hau stop! and E. whoa.]

Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913