Homelike Home"like` adjective Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

Homelily Home"li·ly adverb Plainly; inelegantly. [ R.]

Homeliness Home"li·ness noun [ From Homely .] 1. Domesticity; care of home. [ Obsolete] "Wifely homeliness ." Chaucer.

2. Familiarity; intimacy. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.

4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison.

Homeling Home"ling noun A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling . Trench.

Homely Home"ly adjective [ Compar. Homelier ; superl. Homeliest .] [ From Home , noun ] 1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. [ Archaic]

With all these men I was right homely , and communed with, them long and oft.

Foxe.

Their homely joys, and destiny obscure.

Gray.

2. Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.

Now Strephon daily entertains
His Chloe in the homeliest strains.

Pope.

3. Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome .

None so homely but loves a looking- glass.

South.

Homely Home"ly adverb Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [ R.] Spenser.

Homelyn Home"lyn noun [ Scot. hommelin .] (Zoöl) The European sand ray ( Raia maculata ); -- called also home , mirror ray , and rough ray .

Homemade Home"made` adjective Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country. Locke.

Homeopath Ho"me·o·path noun [ Confer French hom é opathe .] A practitioner of homeopathy. [ Written also homœopath .]

Homeopathic Ho`me·o·path"ic adjective [ Confer French homéopathique .] Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy. [ Also homœpathic .]

Homeopathically Ho`me·o·path"ic·al·ly adverb According to the practice of homeopathy. [ Also homœopathically .]

Homeopathist Ho`me·op"a·thist noun A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. [ Written also homœopathist .]

Homeopathy Ho·me·op"a·thy noun [ Greek ... likeness of condition or feeling; ... like (fr. ... same; confer Same ) + ... to suffer: confer French homéopathie . See Pathos .] (Medicine) 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 symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy , or heteropathy . [ Written also homœopathy .]

Homer Hom"er noun (Zoology) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

Homer Ho"mer noun (Zoology) See Hoemother .

Homer Ho"mer noun [ Hebrew khōmer .] A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [ Written also chomer , gomer .]

Homeric Ho·mer"ic adjective [ Latin Homericus , Greek "Omhriko`s .] Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.

Homeric verse , hexameter verse; -- so called because used by Homer in his epics.

Homesick Home"sick` adjective Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. -- Home"sick`ness , noun

Homespun Home"spun adjective 1. Spun 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. "Our homespun authors." Addison.

Homespun Home"spun noun 1. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun .

2. An unpolished, rustic person. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Homestall Home"stall` noun [ Anglo-Saxon hāmsteall .] Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.

Homestead Home"stead noun [ Anglo-Saxon hāmstede .] 1. The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. Dryden.

2. The home or seat of a family; place of origin.

We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.

W. Tooke.

3. (Law) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family.

Homestead law . (a) A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws, with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also homestead exemption law . (b) Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers. [ U.S.]

Homesteader Home"stead·er noun One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [ Local, U.S.]

Homeward Home"ward adjective Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.

Homeward, Homewards Home"ward, Home"wards adverb [ Anglo-Saxon hāmweard .] Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country.

Homeward bound , bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.

Homicidal Hom"i·ci`dal adjective Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.

Homicide Hom"i·cide noun [ French, from Latin homicidium , from homicida a man slayer; homo man + caedere to cut, kill. See Homage , and confer Concise , Shed , transitive verb ] 1. The killing of one human being by another.

» Homicide is of three kinds: justifiable , as when the killing is performed in the exercise of a right or performance of a duty; excusable , as when done, although not as duty or right, yet without culpable or criminal intent; and felonious , or involving what the law terms malice; the latter may be either manslaughter or murder. Bouvier.

2. One who kills another; a manslayer. Chaucer. Shak.

Homiform Hom"i·form adjective [ Latin homo man + -form .] In human form. [ Obsolete] Cudworth.

Homilete Hom"i·lete noun A homilist.

Homiletic, Homiletical Hom`i·let"ic, Hom`i·let"ic·al adjective [ Greek ...: confer French homilétique . See Homily .] 1. Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. [ R.]

His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical , not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister.

Atterbury.

2. Of or pertaining to homiletics; hortatory.

Homiletics Hom`i·let"ics noun [ Confer French homilétique .] The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.

Homilist Hom"i·list noun One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.

Homilite Hom"i·lite noun [ From Greek ... to be in company with.] (Min.) A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

Homily Hom"i·ly noun ; plural Homilies . [ Late Latin homilia , Greek ... communion, assembly, converse, sermon, from ... an assembly, from ... same; confer ... together, and ... crowd, confer ... to press: confer French homélie . See Same .] 1. A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse. Shak.

2. A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.

As I have heard my father
Deal out in his long homilies .

Byron.

Book of Homilies . A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -- both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesome doctrine."

Homing Hom"ing adjective Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

Homing Hom"ing p.a. Home- returning.

Homing pigeon , a pigeon trained to return home from a distance. Homing pigeons are used for sending back messages or for flying races. By carrying the birds away and releasing them at gradually increasing distances from home, they may be trained to return with more or less certainty and promptness from distances up to four or five hundred miles. If the distance is increased much beyond this, the birds are unable to cover it without stopping for a prolonged rest, and their return becomes doubtful. Homing pigeons are not bred for fancy points or special colors, but for strength, speed, endurance, and intelligence or homing instinct.

Hominy Hom"i·ny noun [ From North American Indian auhúminea parched corn.] Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [ U.S.] [ Written also homony .]

Homish Hom"ish adjective Like a home or a home circle.

Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life.

E. E. Hale.

Hommock Hom"mock noun A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock . Bartram.

Hommocky Hom"mock·y adjective Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.

Homo- Ho"mo- A combining form from Greek "omo`s , one and the same , common , joint .

Homocategoric Ho`mo·cat`e·gor"ic adjective [ Homo- + categoric .] (Biol.) Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

Homocentric Ho`mo·cen"tric adjective [ Greek ...: ... the same + ... center: confer French homocentrique .] Having the same center.

Homocercal Ho`mo·cer"cal adjective [ Homo- + Greek ... tail.] (Zoology) Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal .

Homocercy Ho"mo·cer`cy noun (Zoology) The possession of a homocercal tail.

Homocerebrin Ho`mo·cer`e·brin noun [ Homo- + rebrin .] (Physiol. Chem.) A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin.

Homochromous Ho`mo·chro"mous adjective [ Homo- + Greek ... color.] (Botany) Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color.

Homodemic Ho`mo·dem"ic adjective [ Homo- + 1st deme , 2.] (Biol.) A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.

Homodermic Ho`mo·der"mic adjective (Biol.) Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.

Homodermy Ho"mo·der`my noun [ Homo- + -derm .] (Biol.) Homology of the germinal layers.

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