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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
Houyhnhnm
    n 1: one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in
         a novel by Jonathan Swift
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Houyhnhnm \Hou*yhnhnm"\, n.
   One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary
   travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with
   reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a
   race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of
   men.
   [1913 Webster]
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