Contraction of how is. / Contraction of how has. / Contraction of how does.

Alternative spelling of hows; plural of how

Used to emphasise a particular quality

Used to ask someone to repeat something / (cricket) Used to make an appeal to the umpire as to whether the batsman is out or not / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see how, is, that.

(rare) Synonym of how's it going

(interrogative) To what degree or extent. / By what means. / With overtones of why, for what reason. / In what form, shape, measure, quantity, etc. / With what meaning or effect.

The manner or way in which. / In any way in which; in whatever way; however. / That, the fact that.

The means by which something is accomplished.

(dialectal) An artificial barrow or tumulus. / (dialectal) A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.)

A greeting, used in representations of Native American speech.