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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. 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.]
  2. Hŏm'i-list, n.p. 634One who preaches to a congregation.
  3. 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…
  4. Hŏm'i-ny, n.p. 634Maize hulled and broken, but coarse, prepared for food by being mixed with water and boiled. [U. S.]
  5. Hŏm'mock, n.p. 634A hillock, or small eminence of a conical form, sometimes covered with trees. Bartram.
  6. Hō'mo-cĕn'tric, a.p. 634Having the same center.
  7. Hō'mo-cēr'cal, a.p. 634(Ichth.) Having the tail symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating at its commencement;—opposed to heterocercal. Agassiz.
  8. Ho-mōch'ro-mōūs, a.p. 634(Bot.) Having all the florets in the same flower-head of the same color. Brande.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Hō'moe-ōm'e-try, n.p. 634The same as HOMŒOMERIA. [Obs.] Cudworth.
  12. Hō'moe-o-môrph'ĭsm, n.p. 634A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds or inorganic species; isomorphism. Dana.
  13. Hō'mœ-o-môrph'oŭs, a.p. 634Approximately similar in crystalline form. Dana.
  14. Hō'mœ-o-păth'ic, a.p. 634The same as HOMEOPATHIC.
  15. Hō'mœ-ŏp'a-thist, n.p. 634The same as HOMEOPATHIST.
  16. Hō'mœ-ŏp'a-thy, n.p. 634The same as HOMEOPATHY.
  17. 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.
  18. Ho-mŏg'a-moŭs, a.p. 634(Bot.) Having the same essential parts of fructification.
  19. Hō'mo-gān'g'li-āte, a.p. 634Having the nervous ganglions symmetrically arranged, as in the invertebrates. Dana.
  20. Hō'mo-gēne, a.p. 634Homogeneous. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. Ho-mōg'e-ny, n.p. 634Joint nature. [Obs.] Bacon.
  24. Hō'mo-grāph'ie, a.p. 634Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound;—said of certain methods of spelling words.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. Hō'moi-ou'si-an, a.p. 634Pertaining to the Homoiou-sians, or their belief.
  29. Ho-mŏl′o-gāte, v. t.p. 634(Civ. Law.) To approve; to allow; as, the court homologates a proceeding. Wheaton.
  30. 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.
  31. Hŏm'/o-lŏg'ie-al-ly, adv.p. 634In a homological sense or manner. Dana.
  32. Ho-mŏl’o-gīze, v. t.p. 634To determine the homologies or structural relations of. Dana.
  33. 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.
  34. 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…
  35. 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…
  36. 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…
  37. 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…
  38. 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.
  39. Hŏm'o-mŏrph'ous, a.p. 634Similar in shape. Gray.
  40. 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.
  41. Ho-mŏn'y-mōus, a.p. 634Having different significations, or applied to different things; equivocal; ambiguous. Witts.
  42. Ho-mōn’y-mōus-ly, adv.p. 635In an homonymous or equivocal manner.
  43. 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.
  44. 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.
  45. Hō'mo-ou'si-an, a.p. 635Pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.
  46. Hōm'o-phōne, n.p. 635A symbol or character which expresses a like sound or letter with another. Gliddon.
  47. 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.
  48. Ho-mōph'o-ny, n.p. 635Sameness of sound. 2. Singing in unison;—in opposition to antiphony. Moore.
  49. 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.
  50. Hō-mŏp'te-ră, n. pl.p. 635See HOMOPTERA.
  51. Ho-mōp'ter-an, n.p. 635The same as HOMOPTER, q. v.
  52. Ho-mōp’ter-oüs, a.p. 635(Entom.) Of, or relating to, the homoptera.
  53. Ho-mŏt'o-noüs, a.p. 635Of the same tenor or tone; equable.
  54. Ho-mŏt'ro-pal or Ho-mŏt'ro-poùs, a.p. 635Turned in the same direction with something else. 2. (Bot.) Having the embryo in the same general direction as the seed.
  55. Hŏm'o-tȳpe, n.p. 635That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, &c. R. Owen.
  56. Ho-mŭn'cu-lus, n.p. 635A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.
  57. Hōne, n.p. 635A stone of a fine grit, used for sharpening instruments that require a fine edge, and particularly for setting razors. 2. A kind of swelling in the cheek. Hone-slates, species of slate used for…
  58. Hōne, v. t.p. 635To rub and sharpen on a hone; as, to hone a razor.
  59. Hōne, v. i.p. 635To pine; to long. [Obs.] Burton.
  60. Hōn'est, a.p. 635Decent; honorable, or suitable. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Rom. xii. 17. 2. Fair; good; unimpeached. Look ye out among you seven men of honest report. Acts vi. 3. 3. Fair in…