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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Hōme'li-ly, adv.p. 634In a homely manner.
  2. Hōme'li-ness, n.p. 634Plainness of features; want of beauty. 2. Rudeness; coarseness; as, the homeliness of dress, or of sentiments. Addison.
  3. Hōme'-lōt, n.p. 634An inclosure on or near which the mansion-house stands. [U. S.]
  4. 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…
  5. Hōme'ly, adv.p. 634Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [Rare.]
  6. Hōme'lyn, n.p. 634(Ichth.) A species of fish, the Raia miraletus or sand-ray, found on the British coasts;—called also home.
  7. Hōme'-māde, a.p. 634Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in private families or in one's own country. Locke.
  8. Hō'me-o-pāth'ic, a.p. 634Of, or pertaining to, homœopathy.
  9. Hō'me-o-pāth'ie-al-ly, adv.p. 634In the method of homeopathy.
  10. Hō'me-ōp'a-thĭst, n.p. 634A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy.
  11. 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…
  12. 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…
  13. 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.
  14. Hōme'sick, a.p. 634Depressed in spirits, or grieved at a separation from home.
  15. Hōme'sick-ness, n.p. 634A morbid and uncontrollable sorrowing for home when absent; nostalgia.
  16. Hōme'-spēak'ing, n.p. 634Forcible and efficacious speaking. Milton.
  17. 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.…
  18. Hōme'spun, n.p. 634Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun. 2. A coarse, unpolished, rustic person. Shak.
  19. 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…
  20. Hōme'ward, adv.p. 634Toward home; toward one's habitation.
  21. Hōme'ward-bound, a.p. 634Bound for home; as, the homeward-bound fleet.
  22. Hōm'i-çī'dal, a.p. 634Pertaining to homicide; murderous; bloody.
  23. 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…
  24. Hŏm'i-fōrm, a.p. 634Having the form of a man; in human form. [Obs.] Cudworth.
  25. 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…
  26. 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.]
  27. Hŏm'i-list, n.p. 634One who preaches to a congregation.
  28. 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…
  29. Hŏm'i-ny, n.p. 634Maize hulled and broken, but coarse, prepared for food by being mixed with water and boiled. [U. S.]
  30. Hŏm'mock, n.p. 634A hillock, or small eminence of a conical form, sometimes covered with trees. Bartram.
  31. Hō'mo-cĕn'tric, a.p. 634Having the same center.
  32. Hō'mo-cēr'cal, a.p. 634(Ichth.) Having the tail symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating at its commencement;—opposed to heterocercal. Agassiz.
  33. Ho-mōch'ro-mōūs, a.p. 634(Bot.) Having all the florets in the same flower-head of the same color. Brande.
  34. 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.
  35. 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.
  36. Hō'moe-ōm'e-try, n.p. 634The same as HOMŒOMERIA. [Obs.] Cudworth.
  37. Hō'moe-o-môrph'ĭsm, n.p. 634A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds or inorganic species; isomorphism. Dana.
  38. Hō'mœ-o-môrph'oŭs, a.p. 634Approximately similar in crystalline form. Dana.
  39. Hō'mœ-o-păth'ic, a.p. 634The same as HOMEOPATHIC.
  40. Hō'mœ-ŏp'a-thist, n.p. 634The same as HOMEOPATHIST.
  41. Hō'mœ-ŏp'a-thy, n.p. 634The same as HOMEOPATHY.
  42. 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.
  43. Ho-mŏg'a-moŭs, a.p. 634(Bot.) Having the same essential parts of fructification.
  44. Hō'mo-gān'g'li-āte, a.p. 634Having the nervous ganglions symmetrically arranged, as in the invertebrates. Dana.
  45. Hō'mo-gēne, a.p. 634Homogeneous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
  46. Hō'mo-gē'ne-al or Hō'mo-gē'ne-ous, a.p. 634Of the same kind or nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or principles; homogeneous bodies.
  47. Hō'mo-gē'ne-al-ness or Hō'mo-ge-nē'i-ty or Hō'mo-gē'ne-ō'us-ness, n.p. 634Sameness of kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
  48. Ho-mōg'e-ny, n.p. 634Joint nature. [Obs.] Bacon.
  49. Hō'mo-grāph'ie, a.p. 634Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound;—said of certain methods of spelling words.
  50. Ho-mōg'ra-phy, n.p. 634That method of spelling in which every sound is expressed by a single character, which represents that sound and no other.
  51. Hō'moi-ōp'to-tōn, n.p. 634(Rhet.) A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or a tense of like sound.
  52. Hō'moi-ou'si-an, n.p. 634(Eccl. Hist.) One who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, essence with the Father.
  53. Hō'moi-ou'si-an, a.p. 634Pertaining to the Homoiou-sians, or their belief.
  54. Ho-mŏl′o-gāte, v. t.p. 634(Civ. Law.) To approve; to allow; as, the court homologates a proceeding. Wheaton.
  55. Hŏm/o-lŏg'ie-al, a.p. 634Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or based upon, that kind of relation termed homology. Dana.
  56. Hŏm'/o-lŏg'ie-al-ly, adv.p. 634In a homological sense or manner. Dana.
  57. Ho-mŏl’o-gīze, v. t.p. 634To determine the homologies or structural relations of. Dana.
  58. Hōm'o-lo-gou'me-nà, n. pl.p. 634Those books of the New Testament which were universally acknowledged as canonical by the early church;—so called by biblical critics;—opposed to antilegomena.
  59. Ho-mŏl'o-goŭs, a.p. 634Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure; especially, (a.) (Geom.) Corresponding in relative position and proportion. In similar polygons, the corresponding sides, angles…
  60. Hŏm'/o·lo·grăph'ic, a.p. 634Preserving the mutual relations of parts, especially as to size and form; maintaining relative proportion. Homolographic projection, a method of constructing geographical charts or maps, so that the…