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how't
- (obsolete) Contraction of how it.
- 1642, Henry More, A Christiano‐Platonicall diſplay of Life, page 122:
- How ſoul and ſpright be ſevered we ſee,
But how’t works by it ſelf is not yet ſhown;
I mean without this ſprights aſſiſtencie,
Though not quite by its ſelf.
- 1706, François Gentil, Louis Liger, Le Jardinier Solitaire, pages 374–375:
- All that behold it cannot but be aſtoniſh’d to conſider how’t was poſſible that Torments ſhould be repreſented to us on a Flower.