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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…
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- n. 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.
- 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.
- One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginarytravels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reasonand noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of bruteshaving the form and all the worst vices of men.
- n. one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift