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HAYES

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

19th President of the United States; his administration removed federal troops from the South and so ended the Reconstruction Period (1822-1893)

Synonyms:

Hayes; President Hayes; Rutherford B. Hayes; Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Chief Executive; President; President of the United States; United States President (the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Acclaimed actress of stage and screen (1900-1993)

Synonyms:

Hayes; Helen Hayes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

Credits

 Context examples: 

“So Reuben Hayes is taken? I am right glad to hear it, if it will not react upon the fate of James.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Why, Mr. Reuben Hayes,” said Holmes, coolly, “one might think that you were afraid of our finding something out.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“All right, Mr. Hayes, no harm meant,” said Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“How are you, Mr. Reuben Hayes?” said Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Reuben Hayes was arrested at Chesterfield, on my information, at eleven o’clock last night.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Reuben Hayes’s manner was far from gracious, but Holmes took it with admirable good-humour.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This fellow Hayes had shod his horses with shoes which counterfeited the tracks of cows.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hayes brought Arthur to his public-house, the Fighting Cock, where he was confined in an upper room, under the care of Mrs. Hayes, who is a kindly woman, but entirely under the control of her brutal husband.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In deference to my promise, and much against my will, I consented to leave him there for three days, under the charge of Mrs. Hayes, since it was evident that it was impossible to inform the police where he was without telling them also who was the murderer, and I could not see how that murderer could be punished without ruin to my unfortunate James.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)