1. With reference to the origin or beginning
   - primitively, originally 
2. Before now
   - in the first place, earlier, to begin with, originally

Encyclopedia: In the beginning

• hoister
• hoity-toity
• Hoka
• Hokan
• hokey
• hokey-cokey
• hokey-pokey
• Hokkaido
• Hokkianese
• hokum
• Hokusai
• holandric gene
• Holarrhena
• Holarrhena antidysenterica
• Holarrhena pubescens
• Holbein
• Holbein the Elder
• Holbein the Younger
• Holbrookia
• Holcus
• razzle-dazzle
• razzmatazz
• Rb
• RBC
• rbi