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Hamilton   /hˈæməltən/   Listen
Hamilton

noun
1.
Irish mathematician (1806-1865).  Synonyms: Sir William Rowan Hamilton, William Rowan Hamilton.
2.
English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815).  Synonyms: Amy Lyon, Lady Emma Hamilton.
3.
United States toxicologist known for her work on industrial poisons (1869-1970).  Synonym: Alice Hamilton.
4.
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).  Synonym: Alexander Hamilton.
5.
A port city in southeastern Ontario at the western end of Lake Ontario.
6.
The capital of Bermuda.



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"Hamilton" Quotes from Famous Books



... Blink Bonny Martha McCulloch-Williams Monotony Philip Gerry "Plug" Ivory and "Plug" Avery Holman F. Day Supper With Natica Robert E. MacAlarney By The Fountain Margaret Houston Bas Bleu Anna A. Rogers The Vagabond M. M. The Doing of the Lambs Susan Sayre Titsworth The Unattained William Hamilton Hayne The Flatterer George Hibbard The Miracle of Dawn Madison Cawein The Song of Broadway Robert Stewart Green Devils and Old Maids Emerson G. Taylor Two Sorrows Charles Hanson Towne Love and Mushrooms Frances ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various

... piece of special pleading for the Northern cause. According, therefore, to your own attitude towards this problem will characters occupies her rural stage—an old grandmother, be your estimate of Lord ERNEST HAMILTON'S arguments. To the bigoted (or confirmed) Orangeman they will seem revelation; to the confirmed (or bigoted) Nationalist they will as clearly seem rubbish. Even I, who admit the justice of the author's contentions, fancied now and again (as in the matter ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 9, 1917 • Various

... do not really have revolutions. What we call the American Revolution was only the reaffirming of principles which were as precious in the eyes of most Englishmen as they were in the eyes of Washington, Hamilton, and Madison, but which had been for a time and owing to peculiar circumstances, neglected or contravened. Political development in this family of nations does not, he maintains, proceed by revolution, but ...
— President Wilson's Addresses • Woodrow Wilson

... her uncle, "is Weehawken. There—just there—Hamilton was killed by Burr, and near by Hamilton's son four years before was killed in a duel—a political quarrel." She knew the sad story well, and with the gift of visualization saw the scene and the red pistol-flashes which meant the death ...
— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell

... geography and "Parley's History," which she knew by heart. How she would have trembled could she have seen the formidable volumes heaped upon his table and waiting for her. There were French and Latin grammars, "Hamilton's Metaphysics," "Olmstead's Philosophy," "Day's Algebra," "Butler's Analogy," and many others, into which poor Madeline had never so much as looked. Arranging them in a row, and half wishing himself back again to ...
— Aikenside • Mary J. Holmes


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