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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ham \Ham\, n. [AS. ham; akin to D. ham, dial. G. hamme, OHG. hamma. Perh. named from the bend at the ham, and akin to E. chamber. Cf {Gammon} ham.] 1. (Anat.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock. 2. The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking. A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak ham. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ham \Ham\, n. Home. [North of Eng.] --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ham n 1: thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: {jambon}, {gammon}] 2: an unskilled actor who overacts [syn: {ham actor}] v : exaggerate one's acting [syn: {overact}, {overplay}] [ant: {underact}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Ham warm, hot, and hence the south; also an Egyptian word meaning "black", the youngest son of Noah (Gen. 5:32; comp. 9:22,24). The curse pronounced by Noah against Ham, properly against Canaan his fourth son, was accomplished when the Jews subsequently exterminated the Canaanites. One of the most important facts recorded in Gen. 10 is the foundation of the earliest monarchy in Babylonia by Nimrod the grandson of Ham (6, 8, 10). The primitive Babylonian empire was thus Hamitic, and of a cognate race with the primitive inhabitants of Arabia and of Ethiopia. (See {ACCAD}.) The race of Ham were the most energetic of all the descendants of Noah in the early times of the post-diluvian world. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Ham, hot; heat; brown
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