| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Holmes, Oliver Wendell |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  h mz, hlmz |
| DATES: | 1809–1894 |
| American physician and writer. A professor of anatomy and physiology at Harvard (1847–1882), he wrote humorous conversational pieces, including The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858).
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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