HUN
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One of a warlike, wandering people of northern Asia, who, in the 5th century, overran and laid waste Europe; a name applied during the World War to the Germans, and later to their allies, because of their barbarities; any destructive person.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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