hyen

English

Etymology

French hyène.

Noun

hyen (plural hyens)

  1. (obsolete) A hyena.
    • William Shakespeare
      I will laugh like a hyen.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hyen in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Middle English

Verb

hyen

  1. Alternative form of hien

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse hýði.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /²ˈhyːˌən/
    Rhymes: -ỳːɛn, -ɛn

Noun

hyen n (definite hyene, dative hyenen)

  1. (botany) film between shell and kernel
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