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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Hōm'age-a-ble, a. p. 633Subject to homage. Howell.Hōm'a-ġer, n. p. 633One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage. Bacon. All the rest of the Saxon kings being homagers to him [Ethelbert]. Fuller. Com'st thou to lay her fruitful meadows waste, Thou homager…Hōme, n. p. 633A dwelling-house; the house in which one resides; residence. Then the disciples went away again to their own home. John xx. 10. Home is the sacred refuge of our life. Dryden. 2. The place or country…Hōme, n. p. 633See HOMELYN.Hōme, a. p. 633Pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; as, home manufactures. 2. Close; severe; poignant; as, a home thrust.Hōme, adv. p. 633To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, bring home, carry home. 2. Close; closely; to the point; as, this consideration comes home to our interest; that is, it nearly affects…Hōme'-bôrn, a. p. 633Native; natural. Donne. 2. Domestic; not foreign. Pope.Hōme'-bound, a. p. 633The same as HOMEWARD-BOUND.Hōme'-brēd, a. p. 634Bred at home; native; domestic. “Home-bred mischief.” Milton. 2. Not polished; rude; uncultivated. Only to me two home-bred youths belong. Dryden.Hōme'-drīv'en, a. p. 634Driven home, as a nail; driven closely.Hōme'-dwĕll'ing, a. p. 634Dwelling at home.Hōme'-fārm, n. p. 634That part of a farm where the mansion-houses and principal buildings are erected. Simmonds.Hōme'-fēlt, a. p. 634Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. “Home-felt quiet.” Pope.Hōme'-keep'ing, a. p. 634Staying at home; not gadding. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Shak.Hōme'less, a. p. 634Destitute of a home.Hōme'less-ness, n. p. 634The state of being without a home.Hōme'li-ly, adv. p. 634In a homely manner.Hōme'li-ness, n. p. 634Plainness of features; want of beauty. 2. Rudeness; coarseness; as, the homeliness of dress, or of sentiments. Addison.Hōme'-lōt, n. p. 634An inclosure on or near which the mansion-house stands. [U. S.]Hōme'ly, a. p. 634Belonging to home; domestic; familiar. With all these men I was right homely, and communed with them long time and oft. Foxe. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Gray. 2. Plain; not pretending…Hōme'ly, adv. p. 634Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [Rare.]Hōme'lyn, n. p. 634(Ichth.) A species of fish, the Raia miraletus or sand-ray, found on the British coasts;—called also home.Hōme'-māde, a. p. 634Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in private families or in one's own country. Locke.Hō'me-o-pāth'ic, a. p. 634Of, or pertaining to, homœopathy.Hō'me-o-pāth'ie-al-ly, adv. p. 634In the method of homeopathy.Hō'me-ōp'a-thĭst, n. p. 634A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy.Hō-mē-ōp'a-thy, n. p. 634(Med.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the…Hō'mer, n. p. 634A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to seventy-five wine gallons, and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to eleven and one ninth bushels. [Written also…Ho-mē'rie, a. p. 634Pertaining to Homer, the great poet of Greece; pertaining to, resembling, or in the spirit of, the poetry of Homer.Hōme'sick, a. p. 634Depressed in spirits, or grieved at a separation from home.Hōme'sick-ness, n. p. 634A morbid and uncontrollable sorrowing for home when absent; nostalgia.Hōme'-spēak'ing, n. p. 634Forcible and efficacious speaking. Milton.Hōme'spun, a. p. 634Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. “Homespun country garbs.” W. Irving. 2. Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. “Our homespun English proverb.” Dryden.…Hōme'spun, n. p. 634Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun. 2. A coarse, unpolished, rustic person. Shak.Hōme'stall or Hōme'stēad, n. p. 634The place of a mansion-house; the inclosure or ground immediately connected with the mansion. Dryden. 2. The home or seat of a family; place of origin. We can trace them back to a homestead on the…Hōme'ward, adv. p. 634Toward home; toward one's habitation.Hōme'ward-bound, a. p. 634Bound for home; as, the homeward-bound fleet.Hōm'i-çī'dal, a. p. 634Pertaining to homicide; murderous; bloody.Hŏm'i-cīde, n. p. 634The killing of any human being by the act of man. This is of three kinds—justifiable, excusable, and felonious: the latter may be either manslaughter or murder. Tomlins. Bouvier. 2. A person who…Hŏm'i-fōrm, a. p. 634Having the form of a man; in human form. [Obs.] Cudworth.Hŏm'i-lēt'ic or Hŏm'i-lēt'ic-al, a. p. 634Pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; conversable; companionable. [Rare.] His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury. 2. Pertaining to…Hŏm'i-lĕt'ics, n. sing. p. 634The science which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them. [See Note under MATHEMATICS.]Hŏm'i-list, n. p. 634One who preaches to a congregation.Hŏm'i-ly, n. p. 634A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a sermon; a serious discourse. Book of Homilies (English Church), a collection of plain sermons, which was prepared at the time of the…Hŏm'i-ny, n. p. 634Maize hulled and broken, but coarse, prepared for food by being mixed with water and boiled. [U. S.]Hŏm'mock, n. p. 634A hillock, or small eminence of a conical form, sometimes covered with trees. Bartram.Hō'mo-cĕn'tric, a. p. 634Having the same center.Hō'mo-cēr'cal, a. p. 634(Ichth.) Having the tail symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating at its commencement;—opposed to heterocercal. Agassiz.Ho-mōch'ro-mōūs, a. p. 634(Bot.) Having all the florets in the same flower-head of the same color. Brande.Hō'moe-o-mē'rī-ā, n. p. 634The state or quality of being homogeneous in respect to elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts.Hō'moe-o-mēr'īe or Hō'moe-o-mēr'īe-al, a. p. 634Pertaining to, or characterized by, sameness of parts; receiving or advocating the doctrine of homogeneity of elements or first principles.Hō'moe-ōm'e-try, n. p. 634The same as HOMŒOMERIA. [Obs.] Cudworth.Hō'moe-o-môrph'ĭsm, n. p. 634A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds or inorganic species; isomorphism. Dana.Hō'mœ-o-môrph'oŭs, a. p. 634Approximately similar in crystalline form. Dana.Hō'mœ-o-păth'ic, a. p. 634The same as HOMEOPATHIC.Hō'mœ-ŏp'a-thist, n. p. 634The same as HOMEOPATHIST.Hō'mœ-ŏp'a-thy, n. p. 634The same as HOMEOPATHY.Hō'moe-o-zō'ie, a. p. 634Pertaining to, or including, similar forms or kinds of life; as, homoeozoic belts on the earth's surface. E. Forbes.Ho-mŏg'a-moŭs, a. p. 634(Bot.) Having the same essential parts of fructification.Hō'mo-gān'g'li-āte, a. p. 634Having the nervous ganglions symmetrically arranged, as in the invertebrates. Dana.