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US
/ˈhæməɫtən/
]
NOUN
- the capital of Bermuda
- United States statesman and leader of the Federalists; as the first Secretary of the Treasury he establish a federal bank; was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr (1755-1804)
- a port city in southeastern Ontario at the western end of Lake Ontario
- English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815)
- Irish mathematician (1806-1865)
- United States toxicologist known for her work on industrial poisons (1869-1970)
How To Use Hamilton In A Sentence
- Hamilton is setting fast times on the road, but no-one is matching the splits of leading duo David Millar and Laszlo Bodrogi.
- Prof. Hamilton, of Aberdeen, claims that the corpus callosum is not a commissure, but the decussation of cortical fibers on their way down to enter the internal and external capsules of the opposite side. Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885
- No wonder, as Mr. Hamilton drily notes, that on the wall of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (where Mendelssohn played and conducted) was Seneca's apothegm: "Res severa est verum gaudium. What Music Has Lost
- As I write this, Neil and Christine Hamilton, as if in dreadful warning to him, are appearing on Hole in the Wall. Edwina Currie, Bobby Davro and Lembit Opik
- Hamilton said that, depending on how the students fared emotionally Tuesday morning, he might cancel classes in the afternoon.
- Book “on the plan recommended by Mr. Locke,” was published in 1839, which had been already preceded by “a selection from the Metamorphoses of Ovid, adapted to the Hamiltonian system, by a literal and interlineal translation,” published by James Hamilton, the author of the Hamiltonian system. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
- Aaron Burr are largely reduced to an amusing but pointless conversation with four gigantic hoodlums from Baltimore who are asked to interpret the word "despicable," which triggered the Burr-Hamilton duel. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- The Padres are banking on improvement from several pitchers, headed by Ashby and Hamilton.
- As if Ian Hamilton Finlay were not to be remembered here, he appears, in the form of a reference to his home, a little country estate which he filled with literary sculpture of his devisal, much as Simon Cutts has decorated his quaint Irish dwelling, Coracle, and outbuildings with words, turning edifice into literature. Dbqp: visualizing poetics
- I don't give plugs as a rule, but I make an honourable exception for the annual Saints & Sinners meeting at Hamilton on Wednesday.
