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Heywood [ˈheɪˌwʊd]

(Placename) a town in NW England, in Rochdale unitary authority, Greater Manchester, near Bury. Pop.: 29 286 (1991)

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1. (Biographies / Heywood, John (?1497-?1580) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist) John. ?1497-?1580, English dramatist, noted for his comic interludes

2. (Biographies / Heywood, Thomas (?1574-1641) M, English, THEATRE: dramatist) Thomas. ?1574-1641, English dramatist, noted esp for his domestic drama A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607)

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agreement anger attractiveness baseball clothing coldness disagreement drama Fatness Improvidence objection opinion secrecy totality undesirability unsteadiness Worthiness			Thomas Heywood, a sort of journalist before the days of newspapers, produced an enormous amount of work in various literary forms; in the drama he claimed to have had 'an entire hand, or at least a maine finger' in no less than two hundred and twenty plays. A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context After a vociferous consultation, which was, at times, deafened by bursts of savage joy, they again separated, filling the air with the name of a foe, whose body, Heywood could collect from their expressions, they hoped to find concealed in some crevice of the island. The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context " = a possibly deliberate misquotation of "It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone" from John Heywood, "Proverbes", Part II, Chapter VIII (1546)} Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context			Hexine hexiology Hexoctahedron Hexoic Hexokinase hexone hexosan hexose hexyl Hexylene Hexylic hexylresorcinol hey heyday Heydeguy Heyduck Heyer Heyerdahl Heyh Heyne Heyrovsky Heyse Heysham Heyten Heyward Heywood Hezbollah Hezekiah Hf hf. HFC HFEA HFMD hfs HG hgb. HGH hgt hgt. HGV hgwy. HH HHD HHFA HHQ HHS HI hi hat hi tech hi! hi-fi			Heyh Heyington Bridge Crew Heym, Georg Heym, Stefan Heyman Steinthal Heymann Steinthal Heymans Heymans, Corneille Heymans, Corneille Jean Francois Heymans, Corneille Jean François Heyn's reagent Heyne Heyrovsky Heyrovsky Heyrovsky, Jaroslav Heyrovský, Jaroslav Heyse Heyse, Paul Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig von Heysham Heysham Heyten Heyting Arithmetics Heyward Heyward, DuBose Heyward, Thomas Heywood Heywood (disambiguation) Heywood (disambiguation) Heywood (surname) Heywood (surname) Heywood Allen Heywood and Middleton Primary Care Trust Heywood Model Railway Group Heywood, Charles Heywood, John Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust Heywood, Thomas Heyworth Public Library District HEZ Hez b'Allah Hez b'Allah Hez b'Allah Hezb Hezb Hezb Hezb-e Tahrir Hezballa Hezballa Hezballa Hezballah Hezballah Hezballah Hezbola Hezbola Hezbola Hezbolah

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