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Definition of Houghton

1. Noun. United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895).

2. Noun. A town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Houghton

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Houchen Houdini Houdinied Houdiniesque Houdinis Houghton Hound of the Baskervilles Hounsfield number Hounsfield unit Housatonic

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Literary usage of Houghton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weeklyby Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1902)
"$i houghton houghton Childhood in lit. and art. $1.25 houghton Boston town. ... houghton Children's book. $2.50 houghton Dream children. ..."

2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1920)
"Aged 13 years, i memory of Benjamin A. houghton who died June ... 38 Ys. Joseph Warren houghton June 26, 1810 July 18, 1886 [Son of Oliver and Susannah ..."

3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"HANNIGAN, DF, 1891, Lord houghton, Westminster Review, vol. 135, p. 157. Were we asked what were the features in Lord houghton's character which made the ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"He has passed his life among his countrymen athome, and houghton was a cosmopolitan. ... Lord houghton, though his career had been in some respects a ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"The pauper G. Harwell acquired a settlement by apprenticeship with one Gaily a mason in the township of houghton le Spring. Shortly after the expiration of ..."

6. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1913)
"Boston, houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1887. In the Stranger People's Country ... houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904. The Spectre of Power. Boston, houghton ..."

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