Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 41
Holotricha (n. pl.) A group of ciliated Infusoria, having cilia all over the body.
Holour (n.) A whoremonger.
Holp () Alt. of Holpen.
Holpen () imp. & p. p. of Help.
Holsom (a.) Wholesome.
Holster (n.) A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle.
Holstered (a.) Bearing holsters.
Holt () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth.
Holt (n.) A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill.
Holt (n.) A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place.
Holwe (a.) Hollow.
Holy (a.) Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood. "Holy rites and solemn feasts." -- Milton.
Holy (a.) Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
Now through her round of holy thought The Church our annual steps has brought. -- Keble.
Holy Alliance (Hist.), A league ostensibly for conserving religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia, Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe, except the pope and the king of England.
Holy bark. See Cascara sagrada.
Holy Communion. See Eucharist.
Holy family (Art), A picture in which the infant Christ, his parents, and others of his family are represented.
Holy Father, A title of the pope.
Holy Ghost (Theol.), The third person of the Trinity; the Comforter; the Paraclete.
Holy Grail. See Grail.
Holy grass (Bot.), A sweet-scented grass ({Hierochloa borealis and Hierochloa alpina). In the north of Europe it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints' days; whence the name. It is common in the northern and western parts of the United States. Called also vanilla grass or Seneca grass.
Holy Innocents' day, Childermas day.
Holy Land, Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity.
Holy office, The Inquisition.
Holy of holies (Script.), The innermost apartment of the Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and where no person entered, except the high priest once a year.
Holy One. (a) The Supreme Being; -- so called by way of emphasis. "The Holy One of Israel." -- Is. xliii. 14.
Holy One. (b) One separated to the service of God.
Holy orders. See Order.
Holy rood, The cross or crucifix, particularly one placed, in churches. over the entrance to the chancel.
Holy rope, A plant, the hemp agrimony.
Holy Saturday (Eccl.), The Saturday immediately preceding the festival of Easter; the vigil of Easter.
Holy Spirit, Same as Holy Ghost (above).
Holy Spirit plant. See Dove plant.
Holy thistle (Bot.), The blessed thistle. See under Thistle.
Holy Thursday. (Eccl.) (a) (Episcopal Ch.) Ascension day.
Holy Thursday. (Eccl.) (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Thursday in Holy Week; Maundy Thursday.
Holy war, A crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of the holy places.
Holy water (Gr. & R. C. Churches), Water which has been blessed by the priest for sacred purposes.
Holy-water stoup, The stone stoup or font placed near the entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water.
Holy Week (Eccl.), The week before Easter, in which the passion of our Savior is commemorated.
Holy writ, The sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ." -- Wordsworth.
Holy (a.) Belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power [ant: unhallowed, unholy].
Holy (n.) A sacred place of pilgrimage [syn: holy place, sanctum, holy].
Holy (a.) (Religious) (C1) 神聖的；上帝的 Related to a religion or a god.
// Holy scriptures/ rites.
Holy (a.) (Religious) 虔誠的；聖潔的 Very religious or pure.
// A holy person.
Holy (a.) (For emphase) Holy cow/ mackerel/ smoke! (also offensive Holy shit) (Mainly US) (Informal) （表示驚訝、恐懼等）天哪！ Used to show that you think something is surprising, shocking, or impressive.
// Holy cow! How did you get that black eye?
Holy cross () The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion.
Congregation of the Holy Cross (R. C. Ch.), A community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. -- Addis & Arnold.
Holy-cross day, The fourteenth of September, observed as a church festival, in memory of the exaltation of our Savior's cross.
Holy Cross, AK -- U.S. city in Alaska
Population (2000): 227
Housing Units (2000): 81
Land area (2000): 31.256168 sq. miles (80.953101 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 6.183244 sq. miles (16.014527 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 37.439412 sq. miles (96.967628 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33030
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 62.198048 N, 159.773418 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99602
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Holy Cross, AK
Holy Cross
Holy Cross, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 339
Housing Units (2000): 139
Land area (2000): 0.284442 sq. miles (0.736701 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.284442 sq. miles (0.736701 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36885
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.600334 N, 90.994557 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52053
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Holy Cross, IA
Holy Cross
Holyday (n.) A religious festival.
Holyday (n.) A secular festival; a holiday.
Note: Holiday is the preferable and prevailing spelling in the second sense.
The spelling holy day or holyday in often used in the first sense.
Holystone (n.) (Naut.) A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships. -- Totten.
Holystone (v. t.) (Naut.) To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.
Holystone (n.) A soft sandstone used for scrubbing the decks of a ship.
Holystone (v.) Scrub with a holystone; "holystone the ship's deck."
Homacanth (a.) (Zool.) Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes.
Homage (n.) (Feud. Law) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.
Homage (n.) Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.
All things in heaven and earth do her [Law] homage. -- Hooker.
I sought no homage from the race that write. -- Pope.
Homage (n.) Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection. --Chaucer.
Syn: Fealty; submission; reverence; honor; respect.
Usage: Homage, Fealty. Homage was originally the act of a feudal tenant by which he declared himself, on his knees, to be the hommage or bondman of the lord; hence the term is used to denote reverential submission or respect. Fealty was originally the fidelity of such a tenant to his lord, and hence the term denotes a faithful and solemn adherence to the obligations we owe to superior power or authority. We pay our homage to men of pre["e]minent usefulness and virtue, and profess our fealty to the principles by which they have been guided.
Go, go with homage yon proud victors meet !
Go, lie like dogs beneath your masters' feet ! -- Dryden.
Man, disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven. -- Milton.
Homaged (imp. & p. p.) of Homage.
Homaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Homage.
Homage (v. t.) To pay reverence to by external action. [R.]
Homage (v. t.) To cause to pay homage. [Obs.] -- Cowley.
Homage (n.) Respectful deference; "pay court to the emperor" [syn: court, homage].
Homage, () Eng. law. An acknowledgment made by the vassal in the presence of his lord, that he is his man, that is, his subject or vassal. The form in law French was, Jeo deveigne vostre home.
Homage, () Homage was liege and feudal. The former was paid to the king, the latter to the lord. Liege, was borrowed from the French, as Thaumas informs us, and seems to have meant a service that was personal and inevitable.
Houard Cout. () Anglo Norman, tom. 1, p. 511; Beames; Glanville, 215, 216, 218, notes.
Homageable (a.) Subject to homage. -- Howell.
Homager (n.) One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal. -- Bacon.
Homalographic (a.) Same as Homolographic. Homaloid
Homaloid (a.) Alt. of Homaloidal.
Homaloidal (a.) (Geom.) Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
Homarus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. -- Hom"a*roid, a.
Homarus (n.) Type genus of the family Homaridae: common edible lobsters [syn: Homarus, genus Homarus].
Homatropine (n.) (Med.) An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.
Homaxonial (a.) (Biol.) Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology.
Home (n.) (Zool.) See Homelyn.
Home (n.) One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
The disciples went away again to their own home. -- John xx. 10.
Home is the sacred refuge of our life. -- Dryden.
Home! home! sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home. -- Payne.
Home (n.) One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. "Our old home [England]." -- Hawthorne.
Home (n.) The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
He entered in his house -- his home no more,
For without hearts there is no home. -- Byron.
Home (n.) The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. -- Tennyson.
Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. -- Prior.
Home (n.) A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. -- Eccl. xii. 5.
Home (n.) (Baseball) The home base; he started for home.
At home. (a) At one's own house, or lodgings.
At home. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home.
At home. (c) Prepared to receive callers.
Home department, The department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.]
To be at home on any subject, To be conversant or familiar with it.
To feel at home, To be at one's ease.
To
make one's self at home,
To conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home.
Syn: Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.
Home (v. i.) To return home.
Home (v. i.) To proceed toward an object or location intended as a target; -- of missiles which can change course in flight under internal or external control; usually used with in on; as, the missile homed in on the radar site.
Home (v. i.) [fig.] To arrive at or get closer to an object sought or an intended goal; used with in on; as, the repairman quickly homed in on the cause of the malfunction.
Home (adv.) To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
Home (adv.) Close; closely.
How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. -- South.
They come home to men's business and bosoms. -- Bacon.
Home (adv.) To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. -- Shak.
Note: Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.
To bring home. See under Bring.
To come home. (a) To touch or affect personally. See under Come.
To come home. (b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an anchor.
To haul home the sheets of a sail (Naut.), To haul the clews close to the sheave hole. -- Totten.
Home (a.) Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Home (a.) Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
Home (a.) (Games) In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal; as:
Home (a.) (a) (Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands; same as home base and home plate.
Home (a.) (b) (Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player.
Home base or Home plate (Baseball), The base at which the batter stands when batting, and which is the last base to be reached in scoring a run.
Home farm, grounds, etc., The farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner.
Home
lot, An inclosed
plot on which the owner's home stands. [U. S.]
Home rule, Rule or government of an appendent or dependent country,
as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested
in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a
government established by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland.
Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of Parliament.
Home ruler, One who favors or advocates home rule.
Home stretch (Sport.), That part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post.
Home thrust, A well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack.
Compare: Homelyn
Homelyn (n.) (Zool) The European sand ray ({Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.
Home (adv.) At or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home."
Home (adv.) On or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home"
Home (adv.) To the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home";
"drove his point home"; "his comments hit home."
Home (a.) Used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away]
Home (a.) Relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town."
Home (a.) Inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national].
Home (n.) Where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [syn: home, place].
Home (n.) Housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house].
Home (n.) The country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey."
Home (n.) (Baseball) Base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn: home plate, home base, home, plate].
Home (n.) The place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: base, home].
Home (n.) Place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball."
Home (n.) An environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home."
Home (n.) A social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage].
Home (n.) An institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home].
Home (v.) Provide with, or send to, a home.
Home (v.) Return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons."
Home, () Home directory.
Home, () Home page.
Home, () Home keys.
Homeborn (a.) Native; indigenous; not foreign. -- Donne. -- Pope.
Homeborn (a.) Of or pertaining to the home or family.
Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness. -- Cowper. homebound
Home-bound (a.) Kept at home , usually due to illness; same as housebound.
Syn: housebound, shut-in.
Home-bred (a.) Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." -- Milton.
Benignity and home-bred sense. -- Wordsworth.
Home-bred (a.) Not polished; rude; uncultivated.
Only to me home-bred youths belong. -- Dryden.
Home-coming (n.) A return home.
Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge. -- Chaucer.
Home-coming (n.) A social event, usually held annually at colleges and universities, to welcome visiting alumni; a type of school reunion for graduates.
Home-driven (a.) Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.
Home-dwelling (a.) Keeping at home.
Home-felt (a.) Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. "Home-felt quiet." -- Pope.
Homefield (n.) A field adjacent to its owner's home. -- Hawthorne. homegrown
Home-keeping (a.) Staying at home; not gadding.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. -- Shak.
Home-keeping (n.) A staying at home.
Homeland (n.) 祖國；故國；家鄉；南非的黑人家園 The country where you were born [syn: {fatherland}, {homeland}, {motherland}, {mother country}, {country of origin}, {native land}].
Homeland, CA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in California
Population (2000): 3710
Housing Units (2000): 1812
Land area (2000): 3.295011 sq. miles (8.534038 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.295011 sq. miles (8.534038 sq. km)
FIPS code: 34316
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 33.741859 N, 117.113201 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 92548
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Headwords:
Homeland, CA
Homeland
Homeland, GA -- U.S. city in Georgia
Population (2000): 765
Housing Units (2000): 318
Land area (2000): 2.576899 sq. miles (6.674137 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.576899 sq. miles (6.674137 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39692
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 30.859445 N, 82.022074 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Homeland, GA
Homeland
Homeless (a.) Destitute of a home. -- Home"less*ness, n.
Homeless (n. pl.) Those people who have no permanent residence, especially those who live outdoors due to poverty; usually used in the definite phrase the homeless.
Homeless (a.) Without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons" [syn: homeless, stateless].
Homeless (a.) Physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern [syn: dispossessed, homeless, roofless].
Homeless (n.) Someone unfortunate without housing; "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park" [syn: homeless, homeless person].
Homeless (n.) Poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities."
Homelessness (n.) The state or condition of having no home, especially of living in the streets.
Homelessness (n.) The state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets).
Homelike (a.) Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly ; as, a homelike atmosphere.
Homelike (a.) Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn" [syn: homelike, homely, homey, homy].
Homelily (adv.) Plainly; inelegantly. [R.]
Homeliness (n.) Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] "Wifely homeliness." -- Chaucer.
Homeliness (n.) Familiarity; intimacy. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Homeliness (n.) Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.
Homeliness (n.) Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. -- Addison.
Homeliness (n.) Having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance [syn: dowdiness, drabness, homeliness].
Homeliness (n.) An appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness" [syn: homeliness, plainness].
Homeling (n.) A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. -- Trench.
Homely (n.) 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.
Homely (n.) 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.
Homely (n.) Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; ugly; -- usually used of people, especially women; -- contrary to handsome.
None so homely but loves a looking-glass. -- South.
Homely (adv.) Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [R.] -- Spenser.
Homely (a.) Lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face" [syn: homely, plain].
Homely (a.) Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn" [syn: homelike, homely, homey, homy].
Homely (a.) Plain and unpretentious; "homely truths"; "letters to his son full of homely advice"; "homely fare."
Homely (a.) Without artificial refinement or elegance; "plain homely furniture"; "homely manners."
Homelyn (n.) (Zool.) The European sand ray ({Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.
Homemade (a.) 自製的，國產的，樸素的 Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country. -- Locke.
Homemade (a.) Made or produced in the home or by yourself; "homemade bread" [ant: {factory-made}].
Homeopath (n.) A practitioner of homeopathy. [Written also hom[oe]opath.]
Homeopath (n.) A practitioner of homeopathy [syn: homeopath, homoeopath].
Homeopathic (a.) Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy. [Also hom[oe]pathic.]
Homeopathic (a.) Of or relating to the practice of homeopathy; "homeopathic medicine" [ant: allopathic].
Homeopathically (adv.) According to the practice of homeopathy. [Also hom[oe]opathically.]
Homeopathist (n.) A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. [Written also hom[oe]opathist.]
Homeopathy (n.) (Med.) 同種療法 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.
Homeopathy (n.) A method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated [syn: homeopathy, homoeopathy] [ant: allopathy].
Homepage (n.) 主頁 (WWW服務器提供的第一個顯示介面，使用者啟動瀏覽器後即展示出此畫面) The opening page of a web site [syn: {home page}, {homepage}].
Homer (n.) (Zool.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
Homer (n.) (Zool.) See Hoemother.
Homer (n.) 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.]
Homer (n.) (Baseball) Same as Home run.
Compare: Hoemother
Hoemother (n.) (Zool.) The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.
Compare: Liver
Liver (n.) (Anat.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
Note: Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways changes the blood which passes through it. In man it is situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly on the right side. See Bile, Digestive, and Glycogen.
The liver of invertebrate animals is usually made up of c[ae]cal tubes, and differs materially, in form and function, from that of vertebrates.
Floating liver. See Wandering liver, under Wandering.
Liver of antimony, Liver of sulphur. (Old Chem.) See Hepar.
Liver brown, Liver color, The color of liver, a dark, reddish brown.
Liver shark (Zool.), A very large shark ({Cetorhinus maximus), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured for the sake of its liver, which often yields several barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone, by means of which it separates small animals from the sea water. Called also basking shark, bone shark, hoemother, homer, and sailfish; it is sometimes referred to as whale shark, but that name is more commonly used for the Rhincodon typus, which grows even larger.
Liver spots, Yellowish brown patches on the skin, or spots of chloasma.
Homer (n.) A base hit on which the batter scores a run [syn: homer, home run].
Homer (n.) Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
Homer (n.) An ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs [syn: homer, kor].
Homer (n.) United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910) [syn: Homer, Winslow Homer].
Homer (n.) Pigeon trained to return home [syn: homing pigeon, homer].
Homer (v.) Hit a home run.
Homer, () Heap, the largest of dry measures, containing about 8 bushels or 1 quarter English = 10 ephahs (Lev. 27:16; Num. 11:32) = a COR. (See OMER.)
"Half a homer," a grain measure mentioned only in Hos. 3:2.
Homer, AK -- U.S. city in Alaska
Population (2000): 3946
Housing Units (2000): 1873
Land area (2000): 10.582239 sq. miles (27.407871 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.852505 sq. miles (30.697845 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 22.434744 sq. miles (58.105716 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33140
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 59.643059 N, 151.525900 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Homer, AK
Homer
Homer, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 590
Housing Units (2000): 222
Land area (2000): 0.377845 sq. miles (0.978614 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.377845 sq. miles (0.978614 sq. km)
FIPS code: 22920
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.320915 N, 96.489960 W
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Homer, NE
Homer
Homer, NY -- U.S. village in New York
Population (2000): 3368
Housing Units (2000): 1453
Land area (2000): 1.668653 sq. miles (4.321790 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.668653 sq. miles (4.321790 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35276
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.638328 N, 76.183760 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 13077
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Homer, NY
Homer
Homer, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 950
Housing Units (2000): 406
Land area (2000): 9.585301 sq. miles (24.825814 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 9.585301 sq. miles (24.825814 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39720
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 34.333851 N, 83.499844 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30547
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Homer, GA
Homer
Homer, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 1200
Housing Units (2000): 511
Land area (2000): 1.026232 sq. miles (2.657929 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.026232 sq. miles (2.657929 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35814
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.034972 N, 87.958986 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61849
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Homer, IL
Homer
Homer, LA -- U.S. town in Louisiana
Population (2000): 3788
Housing Units (2000): 1709
Land area (2000): 4.581406 sq. miles (11.865786 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006209 sq. miles (0.016081 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.587615 sq. miles (11.881867 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35870
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 32.789863 N, 93.058633 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71040
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Homer, LA
Homer
Homer, MI -- U.S. village in Michigan
Population (2000): 1851
Housing Units (2000): 745
Land area (2000): 1.423213 sq. miles (3.686104 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.028332 sq. miles (0.073380 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.451545 sq. miles (3.759484 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38920
Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26
Location: 42.144203 N, 84.806503 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 49245
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Homer, MI
Homer
Homeric (a.) 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.
Homeric (a.) Relating to or characteristic of Homer or his age or the works attributed to him; "Homeric Greek."
Homesick (a.) Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. -- Home"sick`ness, n.
Homesick (a.) Longing to return home.
Home-speaking (n.) Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. -- Milton.
Homespun (a.) Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. "Homespun country garbs." -- W. Irving.
Homespun (a.) Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. "Our homespun English proverb." -- Dryden. "Our homespun authors." -- Addison.
Homespun (n.) Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
Homespun (n.) An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Homespun (a.) Of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted of nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: homespun(p), nubby, nubbly, slubbed, tweedy].
Homespun (a.) Characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys" [syn: cracker-barrel, folksy, homespun].
Homespun (a.) Made of cloth spun or woven in the home; "homespun linen"; "homespun garments."
Homespun (n.) A rough loosely woven fabric originally made with yarn that was spun at home.
Homestall (n.) Place of a home; homestead. -- Cowper.
Homestead (n.) The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. -- Dryden.
Homestead (n.) 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.
Homestead (n.) (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.
Homestead 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.]
Homestead (n.) The home and adjacent grounds occupied by a family.
Homestead (n.) Land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law.
Homestead (n.) Dwelling that is usually a farmhouse and adjoining land.
Homestead (v.) Settle land given by the government and occupy it as a homestead.
Homestead. () The place of the house or home place. Homestead farm does not necessarily include all the parcels of land owned by the grantor, though lying and occupied together. This depends upon the intention of the parties when the term is mentioned in a deed, and is to be gathered from the context. 7 N. H. Rep. 241; 15 John. R. 471. See Manor; Mansion.
Homestead, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri
Population (2000): 181
Housing Units (2000): 76
Land area (2000): 0.189633 sq. miles (0.491146 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.189633 sq. miles (0.491146 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32806
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 39.363149 N, 94.198955 W
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Homestead, MO
Homestead
Homestead, FL -- U.S. city in Florida
Population (2000): 31909
Housing Units (2000): 11162
Land area (2000): 14.283740 sq. miles (36.994714 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.093439 sq. miles (0.242005 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.377179 sq. miles (37.236719 sq. km)
FIPS code: 32275
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 25.471190 N, 80.468122 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33030 33031 33033 33035
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Homestead, FL
Homestead
Homestead, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 3569
Housing Units (2000): 2071
Land area (2000): 0.568171 sq. miles (1.471555 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.066692 sq. miles (0.172731 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.634863 sq. miles (1.644286 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35424
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.405069 N, 79.907785 W
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Homestead, PA
Homestead
Homesteader (n.) 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.]
Homesteader (n.) Someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it [syn: squatter, homesteader, nester].
Homeward (a.) Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way. Homeward
Homeward (adv.) Alt. of Homewards.
Homewards (adv.) Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country.
Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.
Homeward (adv.) Toward home; "fought his way homeward through the deep snow" [syn: homeward, homewards].
Homeward (a.) Oriented toward home; "in a homeward direction"; "homeward-bound commuters" [syn: homeward, homeward-bound].
Homey (a.) 像家一樣的；舒適的；親切的 Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; as, the homey everyday atmosphere; a restaurant with a homey atmosphere.
Syn: homelike, homely, homy.
Homey (a.) Having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; "the homely everyday atmosphere"; "a homey little inn" [syn: {homelike}, {homely}, {homey}, {homy}].
Homicidal (a.) 殺人的；有犯殺人罪傾向的 Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous ; as, a homicidal maniac.
Homicidal (a.) Characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being ; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs" [syn: homicidal, murderous].
Homicide (n.) 殺人 [U] [C]； 殺人犯 [C] The killing of one human being by another.
Note: 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.
Homicide (n.) One who kills another; a manslayer. -- Chaucer. Shak.
Homicide (n.) The killing of a human being by another human being.
Homicide (n.) Crim. law. According to Blackstone, it is the killing of any human creature. 4 Com. 177. This is the most extensive sense of this word, in which the intention is not considered. But in a more limited sense, it is always understood that the killing is by human agency, and Hawkins defines it to be the killing of a man by a man. 1 Hawk. c. 8, s. 2. See Dalloz, Dict. h.t. Homicide may perhaps be described to be the destruction of the life of one human being, either by himself, or by the act, procurement, or culpable omission of another. When the death has been intentionally caused by the deceased himself, the offender is called felo de se; when it is caused by another, it is justifiable, excusable, or felonious.
Homicide (n.) The person killed must have been born; the killing before birth is balled foeticide. (q.v.).
Homicide (n.) The destruction of human life at any period after birth, is homicide, however near it may be to extinction, from any other cause.
Homicide (n.) Justifiable homicide is such as arises, 1st. From unavoidable necessity, without any will, intention or desire, and without any inadvertence in the party killing, and therefore without blame; as, for instance, the execution, according to law, of a criminal who has been lawfully sentenced to be hanged; or, 2d. It is committed for the advancement of public justice; as if an officer, in the lawful execution of his office, either in a civil or criminal case, should kill a person who assaults and resists him. 4 Bl. Com. 178-1 80. See Justifiable Homicide.
Homicide (n.) Excusable homicide is of two kinds 1st. Homicide per infortunium. (q.v.) or, 2d. Se defendendo, or self defence. (q.v.) 4 Bl. Com. 182, 3.
Homicide (n.) Felonious homicide, which includes, 1. Self-murder, or suicide; 2. Man-slaughter, (q.v.); and, 3. Murder. (q.v.) Vide, generally, 3 Inst. 47 to 57; 1 Hale P. C. 411 to 602; 1 Hawk. c. 8; Fost. 255 to 837; 1 East, P. C. 214 to 391; Com. Dig. Justices, L. M.; Bac. Ab. Murder and Homicide; Burn's Just. h.t.; Williams' Just. h.t.; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, ch. 9; Cro. C. C. 285 to 300; 4 Bl. Com. to 204; 1 Russ. Cr. 421 to 553; 2 Swift's Dig. 267 to 292.
Homicide (n.) The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.
Homiform (a.) In human form. [Obs.] -- Cudworth.
Homilete (n.) A homilist. Homiletic