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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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.Hō'mo-gēne, a. p. 634Homogeneous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.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.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.Ho-mōg'e-ny, n. p. 634Joint nature. [Obs.] Bacon.Hō'mo-grāph'ie, a. p. 634Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound;—said of certain methods of spelling words.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.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.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.Hō'moi-ou'si-an, a. p. 634Pertaining to the Homoiou-sians, or their belief.Ho-mŏl′o-gāte, v. t. p. 634(Civ. Law.) To approve; to allow; as, the court homologates a proceeding. Wheaton.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.Hŏm'/o-lŏg'ie-al-ly, adv. p. 634In a homological sense or manner. Dana.Ho-mŏl’o-gīze, v. t. p. 634To determine the homologies or structural relations of. Dana.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.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…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…Hōm'ō-lōgue, n. p. 634That which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, &c., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the…Ho-mŏl′o-gy, n. p. 634The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homology of similar polygons. 2. (Physiol.) Correspondence or relation in type of structure; as, the relation in structure between…Ho-mŏm'a-loūš, a. p. 634(Bot.) Characterized by a similarity in bending or curving to one side, as leaves, and the like, originating all round a stem.Hŏm'o-mŏrph'ous, a. p. 634Similar in shape. Gray.Hŏm'o-ným, n. p. 634A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.Ho-mŏn'y-mōus, a. p. 634Having different significations, or applied to different things; equivocal; ambiguous. Witts.Ho-mōn’y-mōus-ly, adv. p. 635In an homonymous or equivocal manner.Hō-mŏn'y-my, n. p. 635Sameness between words which differ in signification; ambiguity. There being in this age two Patricks, ... and that the homonymy may be as well in place as in name, three Bangors. Fuller.Hō'mo-ou'si-an, n. p. 635(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect in the fourth century, who maintained that the Son had the same essence with the Father;—opposed to homoiousian.Hō'mo-ou'si-an, a. p. 635Pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.Hōm'o-phōne, n. p. 635A symbol or character which expresses a like sound or letter with another. Gliddon.Ho-mōph'o-noüs, a. p. 635Of the same pitch; of like sound; unisomous. 2. Expressing the same sound or letter with another; as, an homophonous hieroglyphic.Ho-mōph'o-ny, n. p. 635Sameness of sound. 2. Singing in unison;—in opposition to antiphony. Moore.Ho-mŏp'ter, n. p. 635(Entom.) One of an order of insects having four membranous wings, of which the two posterior are smaller, and do not overlap. See INSECT.Hō-mŏp'te-ră, n. pl. p. 635See HOMOPTERA.