Huggins

[ huhg-inz ]

noun
  1. Charles Bren·ton [bren-tn], /ˈbrɛn tn/, 1901–97, U.S. surgeon and medical researcher, born in Canada: Nobel Prize 1966.

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How to use Huggins in a sentence

  • To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins?

  • Samuel Huggins, however, who is licensed to sell tobacco and snuff at Hawkhurst, was the friend in need.

  • Added to this, they came and asked Mr. Huggins to grind corn for them on our little ox-power mill, which he refused to do.

    Mary and I | Stephen Return Riggs
  • The women also undertook, under the instruction of Mrs. Huggins and Miss Fanny, to spin and knit and weave.

    Mary and I | Stephen Return Riggs
  • Mr. Huggins also, about the same time, left the mission work, and made a home in the same neighborhood.

    Mary and I | Stephen Return Riggs
  • But Mrs. Huggins was timid, and preferred rather that her Dakota protector should decide which was the best way.

    Mary and I | Stephen Return Riggs

British Dictionary definitions for Huggins

Huggins

/ (ˈhʌɡɪnz) /


noun
  1. Sir William. 1824–1910, British astronomer. He pioneered the use of spectroscopy in astronomy and discovered the red shift in the lines of a stellar spectrum

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