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Christmas are adorned with the leaves and metreo, to measure.) A mathematical Cones a vapour from the margin, blackening over and berries, a relic probably of Druidism.- instrument for taking all kinds of measures,

heath and holt,

Cramming all the blast before it, in its breast a thun2. The holm-oak (Quercus Nex , an ever- both on the earth and in the heavens; a

derbolt.

Tennyson. green oak, often called Holly-oak.-Knee- pantometer. holly, a plant, the butcher's-broom (Ruscus Holophanerous (ho-lo-fan'ê-rus), a. (GrHolt (holt), n. (Corrupted for hold.) A hold;

Holt. t For Holdeth. Chaucer. aculeatus). See RUSCUS. --Sea-holly, a plant, holos, entire, wholly, and phaneros, visible, Eryngium maritimun. See ERYNGO. from phainā, to show.) In zool. an epithet

a place of security; a burrow; specifically, a

deep hole in a river for the protection of Holly, t adv. Entirely; wholly. Chaucer. applied to the metamorphosis of insects

fish. Gone to holt.' C. Kingsley. Hollyhock (hol'li-hok), n. (O.E. holihoc, when complete. A.Sax. halig, holy, and hoc, W. hocys, mallow: Holophotal (hol-o-fö’tal),. a. (Gr. holos,

Holus-bolus (hö'lus-bolus), ado. (From

whole, and bolus, a pill.) All at a gulp; also called from being first brought from the whole, and pho8, photos, light.] In optics,

together; all at once; as, he swallowed it Holy Land.) A plant (Althea rosea), nat. reflecting the rays of light in one unbroken

holus-bolus. (Vulgar. ] order Malvaceæ. It is a native of China mass without perceptible loss; as, a holo

Holus-bolus (hoʻlus-bõlus), n. The whole; and of Southern Europe, and is a frequent photal reflector

all taken collectively; as, he drove out the ornament of our gardens. There are many Holoptychius (ho-lop-tik’i-us), n. [Gr. holos,

holus-bolus of them. [Vulgar.) varieties, with single and double towers, entire, and ptyché, a wrinkle.) A genus of Holy (hõ’li), a. [A. Sax. hilig, D. and G. characterized by the tints of yellow, red, fossil ganoid fishes occurring in the upper purple, and dark purple approaching to old red sandstone, so named from their

heilig, Icel. heilagr, Dan, hellig, holy; from

A. Sax. hal, 0.G. and Icel, heil, Goth. hailx, black. The leaves are said to yield a blue wrinkled enamelled scales. The head was

whole, sound, safe. See HALE, HEAL, HALcolouring matter not inferior to indigo. covered with large plates, and the body

LOW, &c.) 1. Free from sin and sinful affecHolly-oak (hol'li-ok), n. Same as Ilolin-oak. with bony scales, rhombic or cycloid in

tions; pure in heart, temper, or dispositions; Holly-tree (hol'li-trē), n. Same as Holly. form. Their jaws, besides being armed with

pious; godly; as, a holy man; a holy dispoHolm, Holme (holm or hom), 1. See numerous sharp-pointed fish - teeth, were

sition; holy zeal. HOLM-OAK. furnished with large teeth of a conical form.

Be ye holy; for I am holy. 1 Pet. i. 16. Holm, Holme (holm or hom), n. (A. Sax. The fin spines were large and the bones only L.G. G. and Dan, holm, a small island in a partially ossified, the centre being cartila- 2. Hallowed; consecrated or set apart to a river; Sw. holine, Icel, hóar, an island.] ginous. They were from 8 to 12 feet in sacred use, or to the service or worship of 1. An islet or river island; in Orkney, a length. The name Holoptychius is now

God; having a sacred character or associasmall island off a larger one.--2. A low tlat limited to the fossils of the old red sand- tions; revered; reverend; as, the holy Saltract of rich land by the side of a river. stone, and that of Rhizodus given to those

bath; holy oil; holy vessels; a holy priest

hood. The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms. of the coal-measures.

Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground. Tennyson, Holosericeous (hoʻlo-sé-ri"shus). a. [Gr.

Byron Holm is frequently joined with other syl- holos, entire, and L. sericeus, silken.) In

An evil soul producing holy witness lables in naines of places, as Stepholme, bot. covered with minute silky hairs, dis- Is like a villain with a smiling cheek. Shak. Flathholme.

covered better by the touch than by sight. -Holy Alliance, a league formed by the Holmite (hõlm'it or hom'it), n. A variety of Holosteum (ho-los'te-um), n. (Gr. holos, sovereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussi: carbonate of lime: so called from Mr. Holme, whole, and osteon, bone: applied by anti- after the defeat of Napoleon I. at Waterler, who analyzed it. phrasis to this plant, which is soft and deli

on the proposal, it is said, of the emperor Holm-oak (hõlm'ok or hom'ók), n. (O. E. cate.) A genus of plants, nat, order Caryo- Alexander of Russia, and to which all the hollen, A. Sax. holen, holly: the leaves of phyllaceæ. The species are small insignia

European sovereigns finally gave in their one sort of evergreen oak resemble those ficant chickweed-like annuals. H. umbel. adhesion. Its ostensible object was to regii. of the holly. See HOLLY.) The evergreen latum is a native of Britain.

late the relations of the states of Christeni. oak; the Quercus Ilex.

Holostomata (ho-lo-stom'a-ta), n. pl. (Gr. dom in accordance with scriptural pri... Holoblastic (hoʻlo-blast-ik), a. In zool. a holos, whole, and stoma, a mouth.) A divi- ciples, but its real end was the maintenance

term applied to ova, such as those of mam- sion of gasteropodous molluscs in which of existing dynasties. A special clause dimals, of which the yolk is entirely germinal. the aperture of the shell is rounded or

barred any member of the Bonaparte family Holocaust (hoʻlo-kąst), n. (Gr. holos, whole, entire.

from ascending a European throne. Upon and kaustos, burned, from kaió, to burn.) Holostome (ho'lo-stom), n. In zool. a mem- the secession of France and England the A burnt sacrifice or offering, the whole of ber of the Holostomata.

alliance ceased to liave any real existence. which was consumed by fire, a species of Holothure (hoʻlo-thūr), n. A holothurian.

--- Holy of holies, in Scrip: the innermost sacrifice in use among the Jews and some Holothuria (ho-lo-thủ'ri-a), n. A genus of apartment of the Jewish tabernacle or tempagan nations: now sometimes applied to a marine animals of the family Holothuridæ ple where the ark was kept, and where no great slaughter or sacrifice of life. and class Echinodermata. See HOLOTHU

person entered except the high-priest once Eumenes cut a piece from every part of the victim, RIDÆ, TREPANG.

a year.-- Iloly Ghost or Holy Spirit, the Di. and by this he made it an holocaust, or an entire sac. Holothurian (ho-lo-thū'ri-an), . In zool.

vine Spirit; the third person in the Trinity. rifice. W'. Broome. a member of the Holothuridæ.

-Holy grail. See GRAIL.-Iloly Office, the InHolocephali (ho-lo-sef'a-li), n. pl. (Gr. Holothurian (ho-lo-thüri-an), a.

Ofor

quisition. - Holy one, a person set apart for holos, entire, and kephalē, the head.] A pertaining to the Holothuridic.

the service of God. --The Holy One, the Susub-order of fishes of the order Elasmo- Holothuroidea (ho-lo-thū'roi-dē"a), n, pl. pieme Being. - Holy Orders. See ORDER. --branchii, characterized by long jaws encased (Gr. holos, whole, thurion,dim. of thura,open- Holy rood, the cross or crucifix, particularly by dental plates and a cartilaginous endo- ing, door, mouth, and eidos, resemblance. ] one placed in churches on the rood beam over skeleton. Only two genera are known to The sea-cucumbers or sea-slugs, an order the entrance of the chancel.-Iloly Thursexist now; the fossil species range from the of echinoderms destitute of the calcareous day, Ascension-day.-Holy var, a war underbottom of the oolite to the present age. plates typical of the class, but with a leathery taken to rescue the Holy Land, the ancient The best known living member of this sub- integument open at both ends, and pierced Judea, from the infidels; a crusade; an expediorder is the Chimera monstrosa, sometimes by orifices through which suctorial feet or tion carried on by Christians against the Saracalled 'king of the herrings.' SeeCHIMERA, 4. ambulacra protrude. They have the mouth cens in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth Holocryptic (ho-lo-krip'tik), a. (Gr. holos, surrounded by tentacula; a long convoluted centuries: a war carried on in a most unwhole, complete, and krypto, to conceal.] alimentary canal; respiratory organs near holy manner.-- Holy water, in the R. Cath.ch. Wholly or effectively concealing; specifi- the anus, and generally in the form of two salted water consecrated by the priest, and cally, descriptive of a cipher incapable of branching arborescent tubes (forming the used in various rites and ceremonies, as in being read except by one who has the key, respiratory tree') into which the water is baptism, the consecration of relies, churches, Holograph (ho'lo-graf), n. (Gr. holos, whole, admitted ; and the organs of both sexes on &c. - Holy-water fount, in the R. Cath. Ch.the and graphó, to write.] Any writing, as a each individual. They are capable of extend- vessel containing the holy water. Called letter, deed, testament, &c., wholly written ing themselves to several times the length also Holy-water Stock, Holy-rater Stone, by the person from whom it bears to pro- they have in a state of repose, and of extra- Holy - water Stoup, Holy - water Vat, &c. ceed.

ordinary reproduction of parts, even of vital See FOUNT, STOUP. --Holy-water clerk, a Let who says

organs. The young undergo a metamorphosis The soul's a clean white paper,' rather say,

contemptuous name for a poor scholar: A palimpsest, a prophet's holograph

during development. They abound in the also, a person who carried the holy water. Defiled, erased, and covered by a monk's. Asiatic seas, the bêche-de-mer or trepang Holy week, the week before Easter (the last E B. Browning. being a member of the family.

week of Lent), in which the passion of our Holograph (hoʻlo-graf), a. A term applied to Holour,t n. A whoremonger.

Chaucer. Saviour is commemorated.-Holy writ, the a manuscript document or letter written and Holp, Holpen (hölp, hõlp'n), the antiquated sacred Scriptures. - SYN. Pious, devout, signed by the grantor or sender; as, the pret, and pp. of help. See HELP.

godly, religious, immaculate, divine, halwill is holograph of the grantor.

By foul play, as thou sayest, were we heaved thence, lowed, consecrated, sanctified, sacred. A holograph letter by a man of quality is a true But blessedly holp hither.

Shak. Holy-cross (höʻli-kros), n. 1. An order of treasure.

Lamb.
I could not be unthankful, I who was

Augustinian canons, suppressed in the sevenHolographic (ho-lo-graf'ik), a. Written

Entreated thus and holpen. E. B. Browning. teenth century. -- 2. An ecclesiastical order wholly by the grantor or testator himself. Holster (höl'stėr), n. [D. holster, a pistol- established in France in 1834, who devote Holographical (ho-lo-graf'ik-al), a. Relat- case; comp. A. Sax. heolster, a hiding-place, themselves to preaching and educationing to a holograph; written by the hand of a recess, from helan, to cover, to hide; the brothers educating orphan boys, and him from whom it comes.

Icel. hulster, Dan. hylster, a case.) А instructing them in trades or agriculture, Holohedral (ho-lo-he'dral), a. (Gr. holos, leather case for a pistol, carried by a horse- the sisters educating girls and attending whole, and hedra, seat, base.] In mineral. man at the fore-part of his saddle.

the sick.-3. A society formed by clerical a term applied to a crystal with all the Holstered (hol'stėrd), a. Bearing holsters; members of the extreme ritualistic section similar edges or angles similarly replaced. as, a holstered steed.

of the English Church. Holometabola (ho'lo-me-tab'o-la), 1.pl. The Holt (hölt), n. [A. Sax. 0. Sax. and L. G. holt, Holy-cross Day, l. See HOLY-ROOD DAY.

section of the class Insecta which undergo grove, wood; D. hout, G. holz, wood, tim- Holy-cruel (hö’li-kro-el), a. Cruel from exa complete metamorphosis. See INSECT. ber. Comp. Gael, and Ir. coil, coille, pl. cess of holiness. * Be not so holy-cruel.' Holometabolic (ho'lo-me-ta-bol"ik), a. (Gr. coillte, wood; W. cel, celt, shelter, covert.) Shak. holos, entire complete, and metabolé, change.) A wood or woodland; an orchard; a plan- Holyday (holi-dā). See HOLIDAY. In zool. a term applied to insects which tation: seldom used except in poetry or in Holy-fire (hoʻli-fīr), n.

In the R. Cath. undergo a complete metamorphosis.

provincial English, common as an element and Greek Churches, a light kindled on Holometer (ho-lom'et-ér), il. (Gr. holos, all, in names of places in England.

Holy Saturday, the Saturday preceding HOLY GHOST

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Easter Sunday, by sparks from a flint. All the rest of the Saxon kings being homagers to Homeborn (hom'born), a. 1. Native; natural.
All the lights are previously extinguished,

him (Ethelbert).
Fuller,

Arm and the holy-fire is greeted by the ecclesi- Homagium (hom-a'ji-um), n. [L.L.) Hom- These creatures from homeborn intrinsick harm. astics on their knees exclaiming 'Lumen age.

Donne. Christi' (Light of Christ). At Rome the Homalonotus (hom-al-on'o-tus), n. (Gr.

2. Domestic; not foreign. ceremony is performed in presence of the homalos, on the same level, and notos, the One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto pope. At Jerusalem it is celebrated by the back.) A genus of trilobites found in the the stranger that sojourneth among you. Ex. xii. 49 Greek and Armenian clergy combined. There Silurian and Devonian formations.

Home-bound (hom'-bound), a. Same as the light is represented as miraculous. Homalopsidæ (ho-ma-lop'si-dē), n. pl. (Gr. Homeward-bound. Holy Ghost. See under HOLY.

homalos, regular, öps, the countenance, and For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, Holy Grass. See HIEROCHLOE.

eidos, resemblance.) A family of fresh-water And home-bound fancy runs her bark ashore. Taylor, Holy-rood (höʻli-röd), n. See under HOLY. colubrine snakes, infesting the ponds and Homebred (hom'bred), a. 1. Native; natural. Holy-rood Day, n. The fourteenth day of rivers of India and the Eastern Archipelago. Homebred lusts.' Hammond.-2. Domestic; September, on which a religious festival is They sometimes attain a considerable size, originating at home; not foreign; as, homeobserved in memory of the exaltation of our and are reported venomous.

bred evil. Homebred mischief.' Milton. Saviour's cross. Called also Holy-cross Day. Homaloptera (ho-mal-op'tė-ra), n. pl. [Gr. 3. Plain; rude; artless; uncultivated; not Holy-stone (hoʻli-stön), n. A soft sand- homalos, regular, and pteron, a wing.) A polished by travel stone used by seamen for cleaning the decks small order of dipterous insects, called Pu

Only to ne two homebred youths belong. Dryden. of ships.

pipara, from the larvæ remaining within

Home-brewed (hom'bröd), a. Brewed or Holy-stone (hoʻli-ston), v.t. To scrub the the body of the mother till they have atdeck of a vessel with holy-stone. tained the pupa state. Several are wing

made at home as opposed to made in a Holy-thistle (hoʻli-this-l), n. A plant, the less, and all are parasitic, one remarkable

public brewery: said of liquors. blessed-thistle (Centaurea benedicta). genus, Nycteribia, infesting bats.

I drink the virgin lymph, pure and crystalline as it Holy-water (ho'-li-wa-tér), n. See under Homarus (hom'a-rus), n.

gushes from the rock, or the sparkling beverage A genus of deca

home-brewed from inalt of my own making. Smollett. HOLY.

podous, long-tailed crustaceans, containing Holy-water Sprinkler, n. 1. An instrument the marine lobsters. Nephrops (which see) Home-brewed (hom’bröd), n. Beer, ale, or with which to is a sub-genus. See LOBSTER.

the like brewed at home and not in a public sprinkle holy Hombre (om'br), n. Same as Ombre.

brewery. water, It con

It was there that Egalité Orleans roasted partridges Homebuilt (hõm'bilt), a. Built in our own sists of a bunch on the night when he and the Marquis of Steyne won

country. of twigs or a hundred thousand from a great personage at

Home-circle (hom'sėr-kl), n. The members brush of horse

hombre,

Thackeray.

of a household; the close associates, connechair set in a

Home (hom), n. (A. Sax. ham, home, dwell- tions, or dependents of a household. Her handle. After ing, farm, village. Comp. L.G. and Fris.

own home-circle of the poor.' Tennyson. being dipped in

ham, G. heim, Goth. haims, abode, village, Home-department (hom'de-părt-ment), n. the holy-water &c. Cog. Lith. kaimas, Gr. kõme, a village,

That department of the executive governvessel it is shakprobably L. quies, quiet, &c.] 1. One's own

ment in which the interior affairs of the en towards or abode; one's own dwelling; the house or

country are regulated. over the congre

place in which one resides; the abode of Home-farm (hôm'färm), n. See under gation. Called the family or household of which one forms

HOME, a. also Aspergillus,

a member; hence, a place or state of rest Homefelt (hom'felt), a. Felt in one's own Aspergillum. and comfort; a future state; the grave.

breast; inward ; private; as, homefelt joys 2. A name some

His great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him

or delight. 'Homefelt quiet.' Pope. times given to

To his home before us.

Shak.

Home-grown (hom'gron), a. Grown in one's a weapon of of- Holy-water Sprinkler.- Picard. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become,

own garden or country; not imported; as, fence used in the

As they draw near to their eternal home. W'aller. home-grown fruit. middle ages, called more commonly Morn- 2. One's own country;'as, let affairs at home Homekeeping (hom'kēp-ing), a. Staying at

home. ing-star (which see).

be well managed by the administration. Holy-week (hoʻli-wēk), n. See under HOLY.

Homekeeping youth have ever homely wits. Shak.

They who pass through a foreign country towards Homage (hom'āj), n. [Fr. hommage, Pr.

their native home.

Atterbury.

Homeless (hom'les), a. Destitute of a home. homenatge, from Med. L. hominaticum, hom

3. The place of constant residence; the seat.

Homelessness (hôm'les-nes), n. The state age, from L. homo, hominis, a man, in

of being homeless or without a home. Med. L. a client, a vassal. The terminaFlandria, by plenty, made the home of war. Prior.

Homelike (hõm'lik), a. Resembling or like tion aticum, not rare in classical Latin, be- 4. An institute or establishment, generally home. came much more generally used towards formed for a benevolent purpose, such as Homelily (hom'li-li), adv. In a homely the end of the empire, and is especially to afford to the homeless, sick, or desti- manner; rudely; inelegantly. common in the charters of the sixth and tute the comforts of a home; as, a sailors' Homeliness (hom'li-nes), n. The state or seventh centuries. In France it became home; an orphans' home, &c. ---At home, quality of being homely; plainness of feamodified successively into atcum, atge, age, (a) in or about one's own house or lodgings; tures; want of beauty; want of refinement which last form it retains in modern French at the abode of the household to which one or polish; simplicity; commonplaceness; Comp. age, from L. ætaticum; damage, dam- belongs; not travelling or visiting at a dis- coarseness; as, the homeliness of dress or of naticum; stage, staticum; village, villati- tance; () in one's own country.

sentiments. Homeliness of illustration and cum; voyage, viaticum.] 1. In feudal law,

Travellers ne'er did lie,

baldness of expression.' Whately. a symbolical acknowledgment made by a Though fools at home condemn 'em. Shak. Homeling (hóm'ling), n. A person or thing feudal tenant to and in presence of his lord - At home in or on a subject, conversant,

belonging to a home or to a country. on receiving the investiture of a fee or com

familiar, thoroughly acquainted with it.-T. A word treated as a homeling. Trench. ing to it by succession, that he was his man

make one's self at home, to conduct one's So that within a whyle they began to molest the or vassal. The tenant, being ungirt and self in another's house as unrestrainedly as homelings (for so I find the word indigena to be uncovered, kneeled and held up both his if at home. -Sen. Abode, residence, dwell

Englished in an old book that I have, wherein adorna hands between those of the lord, who sat

is translated also a comeling).

Holinshed. ing, habitation. before him, and there professed that he

Home (hom), a. 1. Connected with one's Homelot (hom'lot), n. An inclosure on or did become his man, from that day forth, home or place of abode, or with one's coun

near which the mansion - house stands. of life and limb, and earthly honour,' and then received a kiss from his lord.-2. Obeis

(United States.) try; domestic: often opposed to foreign;

as, home comforts; home affections; home Homely (hôm'li), a. (From home.) 1. Pertainance; respect paid by external action; remanufactures; home affairs. -2. Close; to the

ing to home or to the household; domestic. spect or reverential regard; deference. point; poignant; pointed.

The enemies of a man are they that are homely Go, go, with homage yon proud victors meet!

with him.

Mat. x, 36, Wicklife.
Dryden.
I am sorry to give him such home thrusts. Stillingfleet.

Gray. Paying an ignominious homage to all who pos

Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Macaulay. sessed influence in the courts.

-Home farm, home park, home wood, the 2. Familiar. 3. Reverence directed to the Supreme Being;

farm, park, or wood adjoining a mansion-
house or residence of a landed proprietor.

With all these men I was right homely, and comreverential worship; devout affection.

muned with thein long time and oft.

Foxe. Homage ancestral is where a man and his Home (hom), adv. 1. To one's home, whether ancestors have, time out of mind, held their one's place of abode or one's native country;

3. Of plain features; not handsome; as, a land of the lord by homage.-Simple homage, the place or person to which a thing belongs;

homely face. It expresses less than ugly. a mere acknowledgment of tenure without as, to go home, come home, bring home, carry

It is observed by some that there is none so homely

South.

but loves a looking-glass. fealty or the services consequent upon it.

home: often opposed to abroad, or in a Liege homage, a homage which included

foreign country; as, my brother will return 4. Plain; like that which is made for common fealty and certain services. home in the first ship from India.-2. To the domestic use; rude; coarse; not fine or ele.

gant; as, a homely garment; a homely house;

a Homage (hom'āj), v. t. 1. To pay respect to

point; to the mark aimed at; to the desired by external action; to give reverence to; to place or distance; so as to produce an in

homely fare. profess fealty.-2. To subject in token of tended effect; effectively; satisfactorily;

Now Strephon daily entertains

His Chloe in the homeliest strains. Swifi. reverence and fealty.

closely; thoroughly; fully; as, to strike To her great Neptune homaged all his streams.

home; to charge home; to pay home; to Homely (hom’li), adv. Plainly; rudely; Cowley.

speak home. 'Satisfy me home.' (All these coarsely; as, homely dressed. (Rare.] Homageable (hom’āj-a-bl), a. Bound to usages are found in Shakspere.]

It is a bashful child; homely brought up. pay homage. This is a consideration that comes home to our

In a rude hostelry.

B. Fonsom Homage-jury (hom'āj-jū-ri), n. A jury in interest.

Addison. Homelyn (hom'lin), n. A species of ray a court-baron, consisting of tenants that do Speak not at large, say, I am thine,

(Raia miraletus or maculata), common on homage, who are to inquire and make preAnd then they have their answer home. G. Herbert.

the south coast of England, and plentiful in sentments of the death of tenants, surren- -To come home (naut.), said of an anchor the London market. Called also Sand Ray, ders, admittances, and the like Wharton. when it loosens from the ground by the Spotted Ray. Homager (hom'āj-ér), n. One who does or violence of the wind or current, &c.

Home-made (hõm'måd), a. Made at home; is bound to do homage; one who holds land Home-blow (hom'blo), n. A well-directed being of domestic manufacture; made either of another by homage. or effective blow.

in private families or in one's own country,

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Home-office (hom'of-fis), n.

The govern

misadventure, as where a man in doing a Homodromal (ho-modro-mal), a. Same as mental office in which the affairs of the lawful act, by accident kills another, or in Homodromous. home-department are transacted.

self-defence, as where a man kills another Homodromous (ho-modro-mus), a. (Gr. Homeopathy. For this word and its deriva- in defence of the life of himself, his wife, homodromos, running in the same course, tives see HOMEOPATHY.

children, parent, servant, &c.; felonious, running together-homos, of the same kind, Homer (ho'mer), n. (Heb.) A Hebrew mea- when it proceeds from malice, or is done in like, similar, and dromos, a race, a course. ] sure, containing 75 gallons and 5 pints wine the prosecution of some unlawful act, or in 1. In mech. a term formerly applied to levers measure. As a dry measure it was equiva- a sudden passion. Self-murder also is felo- of the second and third kind, in which the lent to 10 ephahs, or 113th bushels. Written nious homicide. Felonious homicide com- power and weight are on the same side of also Chomer.

prehends murder and manslaughter. In the fulcrum, and consequently move in the Homer (ho'měr), n. See HOE-MOTHER. Scots law manslaughter gets the name of same direction. See LEVER. -2. In bot. a Homeric (ho-me'rik), a. Pertaining to culpable homicide.

term applied to the cases in which the Homer the great poet of Greece, or to the Homicide (ho'mi-sid), n. [L. homicida, a spiral arrangement of the leaves on the poetry that bears his name; resembling Ho- manslayer.) A person who kills another; stem and branches of a plant is similar; mer's verse. a manslayer.

that is, when the spires run in the same Homerical (hő-me'rik-al), a. Same as Homiform (ho'mi - form), a. (L. homo, direction. Opposed to heterodromous. Homeric.

man, and forma, form.] Having the form Homcomeria (ho'mē--mě"ri-a), n. (Gr. Home-rule (hom'rol), n. The political pro- of a man; in human shape. Cudworth. homoiomercia, similarity of parts--hoinos, gramme of the National or Separatist party Homiletic, Homiletical (ho-mi-let'ik, ho- the same, and meros, a part.] The state or in Ireland subsequent to the collapse of mi-let'ik-al), a. (Gr. homilētikos, from ho- quality of being homogeneous in elements; Fenianism. Its leading feature is the estab- mileo, to converse in company.] 1. Pertain- likeness or identity of parts. lishment of a native parliament in Ireland ing to familiar intercourse; social; convers- Homeomeric, Homcomerical (ho'mē-o--and, if necessary, in other sections of the able; companionable. (Rare.)

me"rik, hö'mě-o-me"rik-al), a. Pertaining empire-to conduct all local and internal

His virtues active chiefly, and homiletical, not to or characterized by sameness of parts; legislation, leaving the general political those lazy sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury. advocating or receiving the doctrine of hogovernment of the empire to an imperial 2. Relating to homiletics; hortatory.-Ho- mogeneity of first principles. parliament.

miletic theology. Same as Homiletics. Homcometry (hö'mē-o"met-ri), n. Same Home-rule (hom'röl), a. Pertaining to or Homiletics (ho-mi-let'iks), n. The art of as Homæomeria. connected with home-rule (which see). preaching; that branch of practical theo- Homeomorphism (hö'mē-7-morf"izm), n. Home-ruler (hömöröl-er), n. One who main- logy which teaches the principles of adapt- (Gr. homoios, like, and morphe, form.] Same tains the doctrines of home-rule.

ing the discourses of the pulpit to the spiri- as Isomorphisin. Home-secretary (hom'se-kré-ta-ri), n. The tual benefit of the hearers, and the best Homoeomorphous (hö'mē-7-mort"us), a. secretary of state for the home-department. methods which ministers of the gospel

Same as Isomorphous. Home-sick(hom'sik),a. Ill from being absent should pursue for instructing their hearers Homeopathic, Homeopathical (hö'mēfrom home; affected with home-sickness. by their doctrines and example.

o-path"ik, hö'mē-7-path'ik-al), a. Relating The home-sick passion which the negro fears. Homiliarium (ho'mil-i-ā”ri-um), n. A col- to homeopathy; as, homeopathic remedies.

Montgomery. lection of homilies for the use of pastors. Homeopathically (ho'mē-o-path'ik-al-li), Home-sickness (hõm’sik-nes), 1. In med.

Homilist (ho'mi-list), n. One that composes adv. In a homeopathic manner. a disease arising from an intense and uncon- homilies; one that preaches to a congrega- Homoeopathist (ho-mē-op'a-thist), n. One trolled feeling of grief at a separation from tion.

who is versed in or practises homeopathy; one's home or native land; nostalgia. It is Homily (ho'mi-li), n. [Gr. homilia, converse, one who believes in the homeopathic treatmost frequent among persons who leave instruction, a sermon.) A discourse or ser- ment of diseases. mountainous and go to flat countries, as the mon read or pronounced to an audience; a Homeopathy (ho-mẽ-op'a-thi), m. [Gr. hoScotch Highlanders and Swiss, or among sermon; a serious discourse. --Book of Homi- moiopatheia, a similar or like state of feelthose who change from the country to the

lies, in the Church of England, the term ing-homoios, like, and pathos, suffering.) town. It commences by a deep melancholy,

applied to one of the two series of plain The mode of treating diseases by the adis sometimes accompanied by low, nervous, doctrinal discourses called The First and ministration of medicines which are capable hectic fever, or occasionally changes into Second Books of Homilies, the former of of exciting in healthy persons symptoms phthisis, and often terminates fatally. which, ascribed to Cranmer, appeared in closely similar to those of the disease treated; Homesocken. See HAMESUCKEN.

1547; the latter, said to be by Jewell, in the system of medicine founded upon the Homespeaking (hom'spēk-ing), n. Forcible

1563. They were originally meant to be belief that drugs have the power of curing and efficacious speaking. 'Plain and impar- read by those of the inferior clergy who morbid conditions similar to those they have tial homespeaking.' Milton.

were not qualified to compose discourses the power to excite, an old belief long ago Homespun (hom'spun), a. 1. Spun or wrought themselves.

expressed in the Latin phrase ‘similia similat home; of domestic manufacture. Home- Homing (hom'ing), a. Coming home; desir- ibus curantur' (like is cured by like). In spun country garbs.' W. Irving. Hence

ous of returning home; specifically, a term contradistinction to this system the more 2. Plain; coarse; rude; homely; not elegant.

applied to birds, such as the carrier- common method of treating diseases has Our homespun English proverbs.' Dryden. pigeons, that have the faculty of returning been termed heteropathy or allopathy. In "Our homespun authors.' Addison.

from great distances to the place where practice homeopathy is associated with Homespun (hom'spun), n. 1. Cloth made at they are reared.

the system of administering infinitesimal home; as, he was dressed in homespun. Hominidæ (hő-min'i-dē), n. pl. [L. homo, doses. 2. A coarse, unpolished, rustic person. hominis, a man, and Gr. eidos, resemblance.) Homeosauria (hö'mě-6-są"ri-a), n. pl. (Gr. What herpen homespuns have we swaggering here, In zool. a family name sometimes used as homoios, like, sauros, lizard.) A group of So near the cradle of the fairy queen? Shak.

synonymous with the order Bimana or man. fossil genera like the lizards, but having Homestall (hom'stąl), n. A homestead; a Hominy (ho'mi-ni), n. [Amer.-Indian auhú- doubly concave vertebræe. They are found mansion-house.

minea, parched corn.] Maize hulled and from the trias to the middle oolites. TelerHomestead (hom'sted), n. 1. A mansion- coarsely ground or broken, prepared for peton belongs to the group. house; a person's dwelling-place, with the food by being mixed with water and boiled. Homoeozoic (hö'mē--zo'ik), a. (Gr. homoios, inclosure or ground immediately contiguous; (United States.)

similar, and zóē, life.) A term applied to an abode; a home.--2. Native seat; original Homliness,t n. Homeliness; domestic ma- zones or belts of the ocean or the surface station or place of residence. nagement; familiarity. Chaucer,

of the earth including similar forms of life. We can trace them back to a homestead on the Homly,t a. Homely; domestic; plain; These zones are not parallel with lines of rivers Volga and Ural. W. Touke. simple. Chaucer.

latitude, but undulate in subordination to Homeward, Homewards (hom'werd, hom'. Hommock (hom'ok), n. A hillock or small climatal influences. werdz), ado. [A. Sax. hàmweard húm, eminence of a conical form, sometimes coy- Homosolen (ho-me-solen), n. [Gr. homoios, home, and weard, direction.] Toward home;

ered with trees. Written also Hummock. similar, and sõlèn, a tube. ) A fossil branchtoward one's habitation, or toward one's Hommony (hom’mo-ni), n.

Same as Ho- ing coral of the chalk formation, composed native country. тіпу.

of similar tubes all lying in the same direcThe ploughman homeward plods his weary way.

Homo- (ho'mo). A prefix derived from the tion.
Gray:

Greek, signifying sameness, similarity, re- Homogamous (hő-mog'a-mus), a. [Gr. hoHomeward (hom'wėrd), a. Being in the semblance: opposed to hetero-, denoting dif- mos. like, and gamos, marriage.] In bot. a direction of home; as, a homeward journey. ference.

term applied to grasses when all the florets Homeward - bound (hom'wèrd-bound), a. Homocarpous (hő-mo-kärp'us), a. of the spikelets of the same individual are Bound or destined for home; said especially homos, the same, and karpos, fruit.] In bot. hermaphrodite; also applied to composite of vessels returning from a foreign country, having all the fruits of the flower-head plants when all the florets of a flower-head or of persons returning home by sea; as, the exactly alike.

are hermaphrodite homeward-bound fleet; we were then hoine- Homocentric (ho'mo-sen'trik), a. (Gr. ho- Homogangliata (ho-mo-gang'gli-ā"ta), n. pl. ward-bound.

mos, the same, and kentron, a centre.) Hav- (Gr. homos, the same, and ganglion, a ganHomicidal (ho-mi-sīd'al), a. Pertaining to ing the same centre: the same as Concen- glion.) A name proposed by Professor homicide; murderous; bloody. tric.

Owen for the Articulata of Cuvier, in acHomicide (ho'mi-sid), it. (Fr., from L. homi- Homocercal, Homocerc(ho-mo-sérkal,hö'- cordance with a scheme of classification cidium-homo, man, and cædo, to strike, to mo-sérk), a. (Gr.homos,

based on the nervous system in animals. kill.] The killing of one man or human being the same, and kerkos,

Homogangliate (hő-mö-gang'gli-át), a. In by another. In law, homicide is of three the tail of a beast.] A

physiol, having a nervous system in which kinds-justifiable, excusable, and felonious; term applied to those

the ganglia are symmetrically arranged, as justifiable, when it proceeds from unavoid- fishes which have tails

in the Annulosa. able necessity, as where the proper officer with

rays diverging

Homogangliate (ho-mo-gang'gli-āt), n. А inflicts capital punishment, where an officer symmetrically from the

Homocercal. member of Owen's division Homogangliata. of justice kills an offender who assaults or backbone, as in the

Homogenet (hö'mo-jēn), a. Same as resists him and who cannot otherwise be extinct cælacanths. See HETEROCERCAL. Homogeneous. B. Jonson. captured, or where persons are killed in the Homochromous (ho-mok’rom-us), a. (Gr. Homogeneal (hö-mo-jē'nē-al), a. Homodispersion of rebellious or riotous assem- homos, like, and chróma, colour.] In bot, a geneous. blies, or for the prevention of some atroci. term employed when all the florets in the Homogeneity, Homogeneousness(hő-moous crime; excusable, when it happens from same flower-head are of the same colour. jë-nē'i-ti, hő-mo-jē nē-us-nes), n. Sameness

(Gr.

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of kind or nature; sameness or uniformity ing to homology; having a structural affin- Homony (ho'mo-ni), n. Same as Hominy. of structure or material. ity. See HOMOLOGY.

Homonym, Homonyme (ho'mo-nim), na They appear, as they become more minute, to be Homologically (ho-mo-loj'ik-al-li), adv. In (Gr. humos, like, and onoma, name.) A reduced to a homogeneity and simplicity of compo. a homological manner or sense.

word which agrees with another in sound, sition, which almost excludes them from the domain Homologoumena, Homologumena (hom'- and perhaps in spelling, but differs from it of animal life.

Whctuell.

0-lő-gou"me-na, homo-lo-gū mē-na), 12. pl. in signification; a word that is the name of Homogeneous (hő-mo-jē'nē-us), a. (Fr. ho. (Gr. homologoumena, things conceded, pp. more than one object; as, the substantive mogène; Gr: homogenes-homos, like, and of homologeo, to agree, to admit, to con- bear and the verb bear. genos, kind.) of the same kind or nature; cede. See HOMOLOGOUS.) An epithet ap- Where so many names are given to a single object, consisting of similar parts, or of elements plied by Eusebius to the generally acknow- some would alınost of necessity be applicable to other of the like nature; as, homogeneous par- ledged books of the New Testament, to dis

objects as well, and thus be homonymes. ticles, elements, or principles; homogeneous

Edin. Rev. tinguish them from the Antilegomena. bodies.

Homologous (hó molog-us), a. (Gr. homos, Homonymic, Homonymical (hó-mő-nim'In no country has the enmity of race been carried similar, and logos, proportion.) Having the

ik, hő-mo-nim'ik-al), a. Relating to homofarther than in England. In no country has the en. same relative position, proportion, value, or

nymy or to homonyms. inity been more completely effaced. The stages of structure; specifically, (a) in geom. corre

Homonymous (hó-mon'im-us), a. Having the process by which the hostile elements were melted down into one homogeneous mass are not accurately sponding in relative position and proportion.

the same sound or spelling, but different Macaulay.

significations, or applied to different things;

In similar polygons, the corresponding sides, anHomogenesis (hő-mo-jen'e-sis), n.

equivocal; ambiguous. (Gr. gles, diagonals, &c., are homologous. Math, Dict. homos, the same, and genesis, birth.] In

Homonymously (hó-mon'im-us-li), adv. In (6) In alg. having the same relative propor- a homonymous or equivocal manner. physiol. the doctrine that the offspring of tion or value, as the two antecedents or the Homonymy (ho-mon'i-mi), 1. (Gr. homôn. an animal or plant run through the same

two consequents of a proportion. (c) In ymia. See HOMONYM.) Sameness of name cycle of existence as the parent, as opposed

chem. being of the same chemical type or with a difference of meaning; ambiguity; to heterogenesis or xenogenesis, which main

series; differing by a multiple or arithme- equivocation. tains that the offspring of certain organisms tical ratio in certain constituents, while the

and run through a totally different series of

There being in this age two Patricks, physical qualities are analogous, with small that the homonymy be as well in place as in name, states from those of the parent. See Biodifferences, as if corresponding to a series three Bangors.

Fuller. GENESIS, HETEROGENESIS.

of parallels; as, the species in the several Homoousian (ho-mo-ou'si-an), n. (Gr. hoHomogenetic (ho-mo-jen-et'ik), a. A term

groups of alcohols, fatty acids, and aromatic applied to that class of homologies which

moousios-homos, the same, and ousia, being, acids are homologous with the others in the from on, ousa, on, ppr, of einai, to be.) A arise by identity of the structures, and

same group. (d) In physiol. corresponding which the evolutionists contend are evi

member of the orthodox party in the Church in type of structure; having like relations dences of common ancestry.

during the great controversy upon the nature to a fundamental type; thus, the human Homogens (ho'mö-jenz), n. pl. [Gr. homo

of Christ in the fourth century, who mainarm, the foreleg of a horse, the wing of a tained that the nature of the Father and genēs, of the same family or race-homos,

bird, and the swimming-paddle of a dolphin the Son is the same, in opposition to the the same, and genos, race.) A name given

or whale, being all composed essentially of Homoiousians, who held that their natures by Lindley to a group of exogenous plants

the same structural elements, are said to were only similar. See HOMOIOUSIAN. which have their wood arranged in the form

be homologous, though they are adapted for Homoousian (hő-mo-ou'si-an), a. Pertainof a series of wedges instead of concentric quite different functions.

ing to the Homoousians or their doctrines. circles, as in the stems of peppers, aristo- Homolographic (hom’ol-o-graf"'ik), a. (Gr. Homopathy (ho-mop'a-thi), h (Gr. homos, lochias, &c.

homos, the same, like, holos, whole, and the same, and pathos, suffering.) Similarity Homogeny (hó-moj'e-ni), n. Joint nature.

graphó, to write. ) Maintaining or exhibit- of feeling; sympathy. Bacon.

ing the true proportions of parts; preserving Homograph (ho'mo-graf), n. (Gr. homos,

That sympathy, or homopathy, which is in all ani. true relations as to size and form.-Homo- mals to the same purpose.

Cudiorth, the same, and graphó, to write.) 1. In lographic projection, that method of laying Homopetalous (ho-mõ-pet'al-us), a. (Gr. philol. a word which has exactly the same

down portions of the earth's surface on a form as another, though of a different origin

homos, the same, like, and petalon, a petal.) map or chart, so that the different portions and signification; thus base the adjective and

In bot. having all the petals formed alike; of the surfaces delineated have their due base the noun, fair the adjective and fair

having all the florets alike in a composite relative size and form.

flower. the noun, are homographs.--2. Milit. a sys: Homologue (ho'mol-og), n. (Şee HOMOLO: Homophone (ho'mő-fon), n. [Fr., from Gr. tem of telegraphic signals performed by

GOUS.] That which is homologous; that means of a white pocket handkerchief. Worwhich has the same relative position, pro

homos, the same, and phònē, sound.) 1. A cester.

letter or character expressing a like sound portion, value, or structure; thus, the corHomographic (ho-mo-graf'ik), a. 1. In

with another.-2. A word or root having responding sides, &c., of similar geometrical geom. a term applied originally to two

the same sound as another but differing in figures are homologues; the members of a figures so related that to any point in one

meaning and probably in spelling; a homohomologous series in chemistry are homoonly one point in the other corresponds,

nym; thus, air and heir, all and aul, bare logues; an organ agreeing in the plan of its and vice vers&; whilst to points situated in

and bear, are homophones. structure with a corresponding organ in a dif- Homophonous (ho-mofon-us), a. 1. Of the a line in either figure correspond collinear

ferent animal, though differing in function, points in the other; also applied for a simi- is a homologue of this corresponding organ.

same pitch; of like sound; unisonous; spelar reason to rows of points, pencils of

cifically, in philol. agreeing in sound but - Homologue, Analogue. See ANALOGUE. light, &c.—2. In orthography, relating to Homology (hő-mol'o-ji), n. (See HOMOLO

differing in sense.—2. Expressing the same bomography or to homographs; employing

sound or letter with another; as, a homoGOUS.) The quality of being homologous; the same character always to represent the

phonous hieroglyphic. --Homophonous words correspondence; relation; as, the homology same sound; as, a homographic alphabet.

or syllables, words or syllables having the of similar polygons; specifically, in biology, Homography (hő-mog'ra-fi), n. [Gr. homos,

same sound, although expressed in writing that relation between parts which results the same, and graphe, writing, from grapho,

by various combinations of letters. from their development from corresponding Homophony (ho-mof'on-i), n. [Gr. homos, to write.] In orthography, the representa

embryonic parts, either in different animals, tion of each sound by a distinctive charac

like, and phone, sound. 1 1. Sameness of as in the case of the arm of man, the fore. ter, which is employed for that sound alone.

sound.-2. In Greek music, music performed leg of a quaclruped, and the wing of a bird; Homoioptotoni (ho-moi-op'to-ton), n. (Gr.

in unison, in opposition to antiphony: or in the same individual, as in the case of Homoplastic(hò-mo-plas'tik), a. (Gr. homos, homoios, like, and ptotos, falling. ] In rhet.

the fore and hind legs in quadrupeds, and a figure in which the several parts of a sen

the same, and plastikos, from plassó, to the segments or rings and their appendages tence end with the same case or a tense of of which the body of a worm, a centipede,

mould.) In biology, a term applied to those like sound.

homologies which arise in consequence of &c., is composed. The latter is called serial Homoiousian (hő-moi-ou'si-an), a. (Gr. ho

tissues similar in character being subjected homology. See HOMOLOGOUS, HOMOLOGUE, moiousios--homoios, similar, and ousia, be

to similar influences. Such homologies may Homomalous, Homomallous (ho-mom'aling, from on, ousa, on, ppr. of einai, to be.]

arise between groups whose common ancesus), a. (Gr. homou, together, and mallos, 1. Having a similar nature.-2. Relating to

try is too remote to be credited with the a lock of wool. ) In bot. originating all the Homoiousians or their belief.

transmission of the characters. round a stem, as leaves, and all bending or Homoiousian (hő-moi-ou'si-an), n. One of

Homopter (ho-mop'tėr), n. A member of curving round to one side. a sect of Arians, followers of Eusebius, who Homomorphism (hő-mo-morfizm), n. (See Homoptera (ho-mop'ter-a), 1.pl. [Gr. homos,

the Homoptera. maintained that the nature of Christ is not

HOMOMORPHOUS.) The condition or charthe same with, but only similar to, that of

similar, and pteron, a wing.] One of the acter of being homomorphous, or of having the Father, as distinguished from the Ho

the same external appearance or form. moousians, who maintained that he was of Homomorphous, Homomorphic (hő-mothe same nature.

mor'fus, hô-mo-morfik), a. (Gr. homos, the Homoiozoic (ho'moi-7-ző"ik), a. Same as

same, and morphi, shape.] Having the same Homæozoic.

external appearance or form. See extract. Homologate (hő-mol'o-gāt), v.t. pret. & pp. homologated; ppr. homologating. [L.L. ho

Many examples occur, both among animals and

among plants, in which famílies widely removed from mologo, homologatum, from Gr. homologeo, one another as to their fundamental structure, neverto assent, to agree-homos, the same, and theless present a singular, and sometimes extremely logos, discourse, from lego, to speak.) To

close, resemblance in their external characters. ..
Homomorphous forms are found in different parts of

Homoptera-Cicada Diardi. approve; to allow; to establish; to ratify.

the earth's surface. Thus, the place of the Cacti of Homologation (hő-molog-a"shon), n. The South America is taken by the Euphorbice of Africa;

sections into which the order of hemipterous act of homologating; approval; ratification; or, to take a zoological illustration, many of the dif. insects has been divided, the other section specifically, in Scots law, a technical expres

ferent orders of Mammalia are represented in the being the Heteroptera. The insects of this sion signifying an act by which a person apsingle order Marsupialia in Australia, Nicholson.

section have the wing-covers generally deproves of a deed, the effect of which appro- Homonemeæ (ho-mo-nē'mė-ē), n. pl. [Gr. flexed, of the same consistence throughout, batory act is to render that deed, though homos, the same, and nema, a thread.) A the antennae mostly short and terminated itself defective, binding upon the person by name given to the lower cryptogams propa- by a bristle, and the body convex and thick. whom it is homologated.

gated by spores, which put out threads of To this section belong the Aphidæ, Coccidæ, Homological (ho mo-loj’ik-al). a. Pertain the same nature with the perfect plant. Cicadidæ, Fulgorida, &c. By some naHOMOPTERAN

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turalists the Homoptera are regarded as an characterized by fairness, justice, or up- to sweeten. * Honeyed lines of rhyme.' independent order. See HEMIPTERA.

rightness; equitable; as, an honest man; an Byron.-- 2. To talk fondly to; to coax; to Homopteran (hő-mop'tėr-an), 12. An indi- honest transaction; an honest transfer of flatter. vidual of the Homoptera. property.

Can'st thou not honey me with fluent speech, Homopterous (ho-mop'ter-us), a.

Of or
An honest man 's the noblest work of God. Pope.

And even adore my topless vilany? Old play. pertaining to the Homoptera.

2. Proceeding from pure or just motives or Honey (hun'i), a. Having the nature of Homorgana (ho-mor'ga-na), n. pl. (Gr. ho- principles, or directed to a good object;

honey; sweet A honey tongue.' Shak. mos, the same, like, and organon, an organ.) sincere; candid; unreserved; as, an honest Honey-ant(hun'i-ant), n. A kind of ant (MyrA term applied to cryptogams, from their inquiry after truth; an honest endeavour; mecocyctus mexicanus) inhabiting Mexico consisting of cells only without vessels. It honest views or motives.-3. Decent; hon- and living in communities in subterranean is synonymous with Cellulares. ourable; suitable or becoming; creditable;

galleries. In summer a certain number of Homostýled (ho'mo-stild), a. In bot. de

reputable; as, honest report; 'thine honest these insects secrete a kind of honey in their noting species in which the individuals bear

care;' I'll devise some honest slanders.' abdomens which become so distended as to styles of the same length and character: Shak.

appear like small pellucid grapes. Later opposed to heterostyled. Darwin.

Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

in the season when food is scarce these ants Homotaxis (ho-mo taks'is), n. [Gr. homos,

Roin. xii. 17. are devoured by the others, and they are the same, and taxis, arrangement. The

Honest labour bears a lovely face. Dekker. also dug up and eaten by the inhabitants same arrangement; specifically, in geol., 4. Chaste; faithful; virtuous.

of the country. agreement in the arrangement in different

Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. Shak.

Honey-bag (hun'i-bag), n. The receptacle localities of strata which occupy the same 5. Good-looking or pleasant-looking; open.

for honey in a honey-bee. place or position in the stratified systems,

Honey-bear (hun'i-bår), n. The kinkajou

Bacchus ... shews his honest face. Dryden. but which may or may not be contempo

(which see). Syn. Upright, fair, honourable, equitable, Honey-beé (hun'i-bē), n. raneous.

A bee that proHomotonous (hő-mot'on-us), a. (Gr. homos,

just, rightful, sincere, frank, candid, un- duces honey; specifically, the hive-bee (Apis like, and tonos, tone.) of the same tenor reserved.

mellifica). or tone; equable: applied to diseases which Honestt (on'est), v.t. To honour; to adorn; Honey-berry (hun'i-be-ri), n. The name have a uniform tenor of rise, state, or deto grace.

given to the berry of Celtis australis (see clension

Sir Amorous, you have very much honested my

CELTIS), as well as to that of Melicocca lodging with your presence.

B. Jonson. Homotony (hő-mot'o-ni), n. [Gr. homos, the

bijuga. same, and tonos, tone.) The act of keeping Honestate t (on'est-āt), y.t. [honesto, Honey-buzzard (hun'i-buz-ard), n. The to the same tone; monotony. (Rare.) honestatum, to clothe or adorn with honour,

Pernis apivorus, one of the most elegant of from honestus. See HONOUR.) To honour. Thomson has often fallen into the homotony of the

the British birds of prey, or rather of such couplet.

Adorn-
Langhorne.
Honestationt (on-est-a'shon), n.

migratory species as become occasional ment; grace.

visitants here. It is so called from breakHomotropal, Homotropous (hő-mot'rop- Honesteteet Honestee, n. Virtue; de- ing into the nests of bees and wasps to al, hő-mot'rop-us), a. (Gr. hocency: good manners. Chaucer.

obtain the larvae. mnos, the same, and tropos, turn,

Honest-John (on-est-jon'), n. A kind of Honey-comb (hun'i-kom), n. 1. A waxy direction, from trepo, to turn. )

apple. Turned in the same direction

substance of a firm, close texture, formed Honestly (on'est-li), adv. In an honest

by bees, and consisting of an agglomerwith some other body, or direc

manner; as, a contract honestly made; to ted in the same way as the

ation of cells for the reception of the honey, confess honestly one's real design; to live and for the eggs which produce their young. body to which it belongs; speci.

honestly.-SYN. Justly, fairly, honourably, fically in bot., having the same

2. Any substance, as a casting of iron, &c., equitably, faithfully, truly, uprightly, singeneral direction as the seed,

perforated with cells like those of a honeycerely, frankly, candidly, unreservedly. but not straight; as, a homotro- Homotropal

comb. Hone-stone (hön'ston), n. pal vegetable embryo, the radi

The variety of Honey-combed (hun'i-komd), a. Perforated Embryo. stone employed for making hones. See or formed like a honey-comb; specifically, cle of which joints to the hilum.

HONE.
Homotypal (ho'mő-tip-al), a. Pertaining to Honesty (on'est-i), n. [Fr. honnêteté; L.

having little flaws or cells, as cast metal a homotype; related as homotypes.

when not solid. honestas, from honestus. See HONEST.)

Each bastion was honey.combed with casements. It is the object of serial homology to deterinine 1. The state or quality of being honest; up

Motley homotypal parts.

Brunde.

right disposition or conduct; justice; sin- Honey-comb Moth, n. A genus of moths Homotype (ho'mő-tip), n. (Gr. homos, the cerity; honour; credit.-2. Liberality. (Galeria), of the same tribe with the clothes'same, like, and typos, impression, type.) In A noble gentleman 'tis, if he would not keep so moths, which infest bee-hives, depositing anat the correlative in one segment of any good a liouse. ... Every man has his fault, and their eggs in the comb, in which the larvæ given part in another segment, or in the honesty is his.

Shak.

are developed and on which they afterwards same segment, of one and the same animal. 3. A plant, Lunaria biennis. See LUNARIA. feed. There also they spin their cocoons Thus, the frontal bone is the homotype of Syn. Integrity, probity, uprightness, trusti- and assume the perfect form. G. mellonella, the superoccipital bone; the humerus is the ness, faithfulness, honour, justice, equity, about 1 inch long, and G. alvearia, about homotype of the femur; the parts on the fairness, candour, plain-dealing, veracity. inch, are perhaps the worst enemies of right side are homotypes of those which are Honewort (hón'wert), n. An umbelliferous the bee-master. They appear to enjoy perrepeated on the left side. Brande.

plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum): so fect immunity from the stings of the bees. Homuncionite (hóm - un' shon-it), n. [L. called because formerly used to cure the Honey-crock (hun'i-krok), n.

A crock or homuncio, homuncionis, a little man, dim. swelling called a hone.

pot of honey. of homo, a man.) Eccles. one of a sect of Honey (hun'i), n. [A. Sax. hunig, comp. Like foolish flies about an honey-crock. Spenser. early heretics, followers of Photinus, who 0. Sax. honeg, D. and G. honig, Icel.

hunang; Honey-dew (hun'i-dū), n.

1. A sweet sacdenied the divinity of our Lord, and held honey) 1. A sweet, viscid juice, collected

charine substance found on the leaves of that the image of God is impressed on the and elaborated from the flowers of plants

trees and other plants in small drops like body, not on the mind of man. by several kinds of insects, for the food of

dew. There are two kinds; one secreted Homunculus (hő-mungʻkū-lus), n. (L., dim. themselves and their progeny, especially by

from the plants, and the other deposited of homo, a man.) A little man; a manikin; the honey-bee (Apis mellifica), by which it

by the insects known as aphides. Bees and a dwarf. is deposited in the cells of a waxy structure

ants are said to be fond of honey-dew. DifHon. Abbreviation of Honourable.

built by this insect and known as honey.

ferent kinds of manna are the dried honeyHonde, t n. pl. Honden. + A hand. - An comb. The ordinary honey of our hives,

dew or saccharine exudations of certain honde-brede, a hand's-breadth. Chaucer. when pure, is of a whitish colour tinged

plants. See MANNA.-2. A kind of tobacco Honduras (hon-dū'ras), n. A species of with yellow, sweet to the taste, of an agree.

which has been moistened with molasses. mahogany from Honduras in America. able smell, soluble in water, and becoming Honey-eater. See HONEY-SUCKER. Hone (hón), n. (A. Sax. hún, Icel. hein, Dan. vinous by fermentation. It is said to con

Covered with heen, a hone, a whetstone.) A stone of a tain four kinds of sugar including cane and Honeyed (hun'id), p. and a.

or as with honey; hence, sweet; as, honeyed fine grit, used for sharpening instruments fruit sugar, besides certain other substances.

words. Milton. that require a fine edge, and particularly As honey-producing insects we may also for setting razors; an oilstone. Hones are

pennis) and the honey-ant of Mexico (Myr. Honey-flower (hun'i-flou-er), n. A popular mention a kind of wasp (Polybia apici- Honeyedness (hun'id-nes), n. Sweetness;

allurement pieces of hard close-grained talc-slate, containing minute particles of quartz, with a mecocyctus mexicanus). -- 2. Fig. sweetness

name for the plants of the genus Melianthus, uniform consistence. A hone differs from a or pleasantness.

natives of the Cape of Good Hope, from the whetstone in being of finer and more com

The king hath found
Matter against him that for ever mars

flowers attracting bees. pact grit.

The honey of his language.

Shak, Honey-garlic (hun'i-går-lik), n. An EngHone (hón), n. (Comp. Icel. húnn, a knob.) A kind of swelling in the cheek. 3. As a word of endearment, sweet one; dar

lish equivalent of the genus Nectaroscor

dum. Hone (hon), v.t. pret. & pp. honed ; ppr. ling. – Virgin honey, honey produced by

An insect. honing. To rub and sharpen on a hone; as, bees during the summer in which they Honey-gnat (hun'i-nat), n.

Ainsworth. to hone a razor.

have left the parent hive.-Clarified honey, Honet (hon), v.i. (Normandy honer, to sing

honey melted in a water-bath, and freed Honey-guide (hun'i-gid), n. A name given or hum in a low tone ; houiner, to lament; from scum. - Acetated honey, clarified honey

to the cuckoos of the genus Indicator, Fr. hogner, to growl or murmur.) To give and acetic acid; oxymel. --Honey of borax,

which, by their motions and cries, conduct vent to longings; to murmur; to long. clarified honey and borax.

persons to hives of wild honey. They are To become sweet; to be

natives of Africa.
Honey (hun'i), v.i.
Commending her, lamenting, honing, wishing
himself anything for her sake.

Burton.
or become agreeable, courteous, compli- Honey-harvest (hun'i-här-vest), n. Honey

collected
mentary, or fawning; to use endearments;
Honest (on'est), a. (0. Fr. honeste; Fr.

Destitute of to talk fondly. Honeying and making Honeyless (hun'i-les), a. honnête, from L. honestus, from honor, love.' Shak.

honey. honos, honour. See HONOUR.) 1. Fair in

One

Honey-locust (hun'i-lö-kust), n. See GLEdealing with others; free from trickishness Discussed hi tutor, rough to common men,

DITSCHIA. and fraud; acting and having the disposi.

But hoveying at the whisper of a lord. Tennyson. Honey-month (hun'i-munth), n. Same as tion to act at all times according to justice Honey (hun'i), v.t. 1. To cover with or as Honeymoon. or correct moral principles; upright; just; with honey; to make agreeable or luscious; Sometimes the parties fly asunder even in the

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