noun
definition
The means by which something is accomplished.
example
I am not interested in the why, but in the how.
noun
definition
An artificial barrow or tumulus.
definition
A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.)
Examples of howes in a Sentence
Howes (39), dealing with the azygous (posterior) cardinal veins in salamanders and some of the Ecaudata.
These bunches have since been named rather aptly, by that distinguished anatomist, Professor Howes, the hands.
Accuracy it doesn't some faceless minion preventing any The Howes Insurance Agency unexpected.
Mr. Howes has probably given you a full account of our doings.
When she first wrote from Tuscumbia to Mr. Michael Anagnos, Dr. Howes son-in-law and his successor as Director of the Perkins Institution, about her work with her pupil, the Boston papers began at once to publish exaggerated accounts of Helen Keller.
Mr Howes was then told by the Khmer Rouge leader to return to MAG for ransom money.