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<p>New page: HOW, adv. In what manner. I know not how to answer. How can a man be born when he is old? How can these things be? John 3. 1. To what degree or extent. How long shall we suffer these in...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>HOW, adv. In what manner. I know not how to answer.<br /> <br /> How can a man be born when he is old?<br /> <br /> How can these things be? John 3.<br /> <br /> 1. To what degree or extent. How long shall we suffer these indignities? How much better is wisdom than gold!<br /> <br /> O how love I thy law! How sweet are thy words to my taste. Ps.119.<br /> <br /> 2. For what reason; from what cause.<br /> <br /> How now, my love, why is your cheek so pale?<br /> <br /> 3. By what means. How can this effect by produced?<br /> <br /> 4. In what state.<br /> <br /> How, and with what reproach shall I return!<br /> <br /> 5. It is used in a sense marking proportion; as how much less; how much more.<br /> <br /> Behold, he putteth no trust in his servants--how much less in them that dwell in houses of clay-- Job.4.<br /> <br /> By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility and fountains and rivers of the earth.<br /> <br /> 6. It is much used in exclamation.<br /> <br /> How are the mighty fallen! 2 Sam.1.<br /> <br /> 7. In some popular phrases, how is superfluous or inelegant.<br /> <br /> Thick clouds put us in some hope of land; knowing how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown.<br /> <br /> Definitions from Webster&#039;s American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.</div>

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