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hssttt.
(also hsssttt).  n.  the sound of a fireball or firebolt shooting overhead.

<Hssttt!  A lone fireball arced over the earthworks and flared across the right launcher.  —L. E. Modesitt Jr., The Order of War.>

hthn.
n.  the title of a visual poem by Mike Cannell.


hw.
adv.  how, written in Roger Bacon’s all-consonant secret code (devised in 1250), as discussed in The Voynich Manuscript by Gerry Kennedy.



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