of the same kind or nature: having the constituent elements all similar.- ns.
Homogeneal, hō-mō-jē′ni-al, Homogeneous, hō-mōjē′ni-us, adj. ( bot.) having all the florets hermaphrodite.- n.
having a like crystalline form, but not necessarily analogous composition.- n. ( bot.) following the same direction, as the leaf-spirals on certain branches: ( obs.) having the power and the weight on the same side of the fulcrum, of a lever. homological in respect of derivation from one of the three primary blastoderms ( endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm). having the upper fork of the tail similar to the lower one, as the herring:-opposed to Heterocercal. a hillock or small conical eminence.-Also Humm′ock. maize hulled, or hulled and crushed, boiled with water: a kind of Indian-corn porridge. Hom′ilist, one who exhorts a congregation, or who composes homilies. Homilet′ics, the science which treats of homilies, and the best mode of preparing and delivering them.- n. a plain expository sermon, interpreting a passage of Scripture rather than working out a doctrine in detail: a hortatory discourse, essentially simple, practical, and scriptural.- adjs. Hom′icidal, pertaining to homicide: murderous: bloody. manslaughter: one who kills another.- adj. 850 B.C.): pertaining to or resembling the poetry of Homer.- Homeric verse, hexameter verse, the metre of the Iliad and Odyssey. pertaining to Homer, the great poet of Greece (c. a Hebrew measure of capacity, amounting to about 10 bushels and 3 gallons. the taking on by one tissue of the form of another under plastic conditions, as in skin-grafting.- adj. Homeopath′ic, of or pertaining to homeopathy.- adv. Hō′meopath, Homeop′athist, one who believes in or practises homeopathy.- adj. the system of curing diseases by small quantities of those drugs which excite symptoms similar to those of the disease.- ns. a species of ray, found on the south coast of England.
Hom′ing, having a tendency to return home Hom′y, home-like.- Home circuit, the south-eastern circuit of Assize, including the home counties (except Middlesex), also Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk Home counties, the counties over and into which London has extended-Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, Surrey Home Department, that part of government which is concerned with the maintenance of the internal peace of the United Kingdom-its headquarters the Home Office, its official head the Home Secretary Home rule, a form of self-government claimed by Ireland, with a separate parliament for the management of internal affairs.- At home, in one's own house: at ease: familiar: a phrase signifying that a family will be at home at a fixed date, and ready to receive visitors-as a n.-a reception Bring home to, to prove to, in such a way that there is no way of escaping the conclusion: to impress upon Eat out of house and home, to live at the expense of another so as to ruin him Long home, the grave Make one's self at home, to be as free and unrestrained as when in one's own house Pay home, to strike to the quick: to retaliate. Home′ward-bound, bound homeward or to one's native land.- adjs. Home′ward, Home′wards, towards home: towards one's habitation or country.- adj. Home′stall, Home′stead, the place of a mansion-house: the enclosures immediately connected with it: original station.- advs. Home′spun, spun or wrought at home: not made in foreign countries: plain: inelegant.- n. Home′sick, sick or grieved at separation from home.- n. Hom′er, a pigeon trained to fly home from a distance.- adj. Home′ly, pertaining to home: familiar: plain Home′-made, made at home: made in one's own country: plain.- n. Home′felt, felt in one's own breast: inward: private Home′-grown, produced in one's own country, not imported Home′-keep′ing, staying at home Home′less, without a home.- n. Home′-farm, the farm near the home or mansion of a gentleman.- adjs. Home′-born, native, not foreign Home′bound, homeward-bound Home′-bred, bred at home: native: domestic: plain: unpolished Home′-brewed, brewed at home or for home use.- n. pertaining to one's habitation or country: close: closely: to the point: effectively.- adjs. pertaining to one's dwelling or country: domestic: close: severe.- adv. one's house or country: place of constant residence: the residence of a family: the seat, as of war: a charitable institution where domestic comforts are given to the destitute.- adj. the service due from a knight or vassal to his lord in feudal times, the vassal preferring to become his lord's man: the act of fealty: respect paid by external action: reverence directed to the Supreme Being: devout affection.- n. such books as used to be much sold in Holywell Street, London-viz. Holywell, hol′i-wel, in phrase, 'Holywell Street literature,' i.e. Fāte, fär mē, hėr mīne mōte mūte mōōn then.