Hy

[ hahy ]

/ haɪ /

a male given name, form of Hiram.

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hy.

(formerly) henry.

When a Miami Herald reporter caught up to Hy, he shrugged off news that a hit that might have been put out on him and his brother.
Rachel Uchitel: Mob Princess?|Gerald Posner|January 18, 2010|DAILY BEAST
My mother Lynn and my stepfather, Hy Uchitel, were quite well-to-do.
Rachel Uchitel: Mob Princess?|Gerald Posner|January 18, 2010|DAILY BEAST
“People threaten to kill me all the time,” shrugged Hy Uchitel.
Rachel Uchitel: Mob Princess?|Gerald Posner|January 18, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The hypoblastic walls of the mesenteron appear to be formed in the first instance laterally (fig. 189 B and C, hy).
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume II (of 4)|Francis Maitland Balfour

Hy'se 'a been so long, old Davy, afore 'a come to see poor Bardie?
The Maid of Sker|Richard Doddridge Blackmore
People say that some darweshes, encountering a whirlwind in this desert,86 lost one another and kept crying, Hy Darwesh!
The Bbur-nma in English|Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
Hy´las.Youth loved by Hercules;stolen by the water nymphs, 267.
Myths of Greece and Rome|H. A. Guerber
Hy′licist; Hylogen′esis, the origin of matter; Hy′lotheism, the doctrine that there is no God but matter and the universe.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M)|Various