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Holmes (hōmz, hōlmz)

  1. Holmes, John Haynes (hānz) 1879-1964; U.S. clergyman & reformer
  2. ()
    Holmes, Oliver Wendell (wen′dəl) 1809-94; U.S. writer & physician
  3. (wen′d'l)
    Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1841-1935; associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court (1902-32): son of the writer

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