how't

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haʊt/

Contraction

how't

1. (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.

Anagrams

• thow, whot