Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HO-ME-O-PA-THE'IAN, or HO-ME-O-PA-THET'IC, a.

Pertaining to homeopathy.

HO-ME-O-PA-THET'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In the method of homeopathy.

HO-ME-OP'ATH-IST, n.

A believer in homeopathy.

HO-ME-OP'A-THY, n. [Gr. ομοιοπαθεια; ομοιος, like, and παθος, affection.]

The doctrine or theory of curing diseases by producing in the patient affections similar to those of the disease. Med. and Surg. Journal.

HO'MER, or CHO'MER, n.

A Hebrew measure containing seventy five gallons and five pints, wine measure.

HO-MER'IC, a.

Pertaining to Homer, the great poet of Greece, or to his poetry; resembling Homer's verse.

HOME'SPEAK-ING, n.

Forcible and efficacious speaking. Milton.

HOME'SPUN, a.

1. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture. Swift.
2. Not made in foreign countries. Addison.
3. Plain; coarse; rude; homely; not elegant; as, a homespun English proverb; a homespun author. Dryden. Addison.

HOME'SPUN, n.

A coarse, unpolished, rustic person. Shak.

HOME'STALL, or HOME'STEAD, n.

1. The place of a mansion house; the inclosure or ground immediately connected with the mansion. Dryden.
2. Native seat; original station or place of residence. We can trace them back to a homestead on the rivers Volga and Ural. Tooke. [In the United States, homestead is the word used.]

HOME'WARD, adv. [Sax. ham and weard.]

Toward home; toward one's habitation, or toward one's native country. Sidney. Milton.

HOME'WARD-BOUND, a.

Destined for home; returning from a foreign country to the place where the owner resides; as, the homeward-bound fleet. We spoke a brig homeward-bound.

HOM'I-CI-DAL, a. [from homicide.]

Pertaining to homicide; murderous; bloody.

HOM'I-CIDE, n. [Fr. from L. homicidium; homo, man, and cædo, to strike, to kill.]

1. The killing of one man or human being by another. Homicide is of three kinds, justifiable, excusable, and felonious; justifiable, when it proceeds from unavoidable necessity, without an intention to kill, and without negligence; excusable, when it happens from misadventure, or in self-defense; felonious, when it proceeds from malice, or is done in the prosecution of some unlawful act, or in a sudden passion. Homicide committed with premeditated malice, is murder. Suicide also, or self-murder, is felonious homicide. Homicide comprehends murder and manslaughter. Blackstone.
2. A person who kills another; a manslayer. Dryden.

HOM-I-LET'IC, or HOM-I-LET'I-C-AL, a. [Gr. ὁμιλητικος, from ὁμιλεω, to converse in company.]

1. Pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; conversable; companionable. Atterbury.
2. Homiletic theology, a branch of practical theology, which teaches the manner in which ministers of the Gospel should adapt their discourses to the capacities of their hearers, and pursue the best methods of instructing them by their doctrines and examples. It is also called pastoral theology. Encyc.

HOM'I-LIST, n.

One that preaches to a congregation. Beaum.

HOM'I-LY, n. [Fr. homelie; Sp. homilia; It. omelia; Gr. ομιλια, from ομιλεω, to converse in company, ομιλος, a company or assembly.]

A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; or a plain, familiar discourse on some subject of religion, such as an instructor would deliver to his pupils, or a father to his children. Encyc.

HOM'MOC, n. [I suppose this to be an Indian word.]

A hillock or small eminence of a conical form, sometimes covered with trees. Bartram. Encyc.

HOM'MO-NY, n. [Indian.]

In America, maiz hulled and broken, but coarse, prepared for food by being mixed with water and boiled. Adair.

HOM-O-CEN'TRIC, a. [Gr. ομος and κεντρον.]

Having the same center.

HO-MOG'A-MOUS, a. [Gr. ομος, the same, and γάμος, marriage.]

In botany, having the same essential parts of fructification.

HOM-O-GE'NE-AL, or HOM-O-GE'NE-OUS, a. [Fr. homogene; Gr. ομογενης; ομος, like, and γενος, kind.]

Of the same kind or nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature. Thus we say, homogeneous particles, elements or principles; homogeneous bodies.

HOM-O-GE'NE-AL-NESS, or HOM-O-GE-NE'I-TY, n.

words not to be encouraged; equivalent to [HOM-O-GE'NE-OUS-NESS, n.]

HOM-O-GE'NE-OUS-NESS, n.

Sameness of kind or nature.

HOM'O-GE-NY, n.

Joint nature. Bacon.