Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter H - Page 43
Homonymously (adv.) In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.
Homonymously (adv.) Equivocally; ambiguously.
Homonymy (n.) Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations. -- Holland.
Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons. -- Fuller.
Homonymy (n.) Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.
Homonymy (n.) The relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning.
Homoorgan () Same as Homoplast.
Homoousian (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian.
Homoousian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.
Homophone (n.) A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. -- Gliddon.
Homophone (n.) A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright. Homophonic
Homophone (n.) Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear).
Homophonic (a.) Alt. of Homophonous.
Homophonous (a.) (Mus.) Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic.
Homophonous (a.) (Mus.) Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody.
Homophonous (a.) Expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters; as, bay and bey.
Homophonic (a.) Having the same sound.
Homophonic (a.) Having a single melodic line with accompaniment.
Homophony (n.) Sameness of sound.
Homophony (n.) (Mus.) Sameness of sound; unison.
Homophony (n.) (Mus.) Plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony. See Homophonous.
Homophony (n.) The same pronunciation for words of different origins.
Homophony (n.) Part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style).
Homophylic (a.) (Biol.) Relating to homophily.
Homophyly (n.) (Biol.) That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting. -- Haeckel.
Homoplasmy (n.) (Biol.) Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances.
Homoplast (n.) (Biol.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoorgan.
Homoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.
Homoplasty (n.) (Biol.) The formation of homologous tissues.
Homoplasy (n.) (Biol.) See Homogeny.
Homopolic (a.) (Biol.) In promorphology, pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form, in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with similar poles. See Promorphology.
Homopter (n.) (Zool.) One of the Homoptera.
Homoptera (n. pl.) (Zool.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.
Homoptera (n.) Plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects [syn: Homoptera, suborder Homoptera].
Homopteran (n.) (Zool.) An homopter.
Homopteran (n.) Insects having membranous forewings and hind wings [syn: homopterous insect, homopteran].
Homopterous (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.
Homosexual (a.) 同性戀的 Sexually attracted to members of your own sex [ant: {bisexual}, {heterosexual}]
Homosexual (n.) 同性戀者 Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex [syn: {homosexual}, {homophile}, {homo}, {gay}].
Homosexuality (n.) A sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex [syn: homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness].
Homosexuality (n.) 同性戀 Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/ or sexual attractions" to people of the same sex. It "also refers to a person's sense of identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others who share those attractions." [1] [2]
Homostyled (a.) (Bot.) Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. -- Darwin.
Homostyled (a.) (Botany) Having styles all of the same length [syn: homostylous, homostylic, homostyled].
Homosystemic (a.) (Biol.) Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.
Homotaxia (n.) [NL.] Same as Homotaxis. Homotaxial
Homotaxial (a.) Alt. of Homotaxic.
Homotaxic (a.) (Biol.) Relating to homotaxis.
Homotaxis (n.) (Biol.) Similarly in arrangement of parts; -- the opposite of heterotaxy.
Homotaxy (n.) Same as Homotaxis. Homothermic
Homothermic (a.) Alt. of Homothermous.
Homothermous (a.) (Physiol.) Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; haematothermal.
Homothermic (a.) Of birds and mammals; having constant and relatively high body temperature [syn: homoiothermic, homeothermic, homothermic].
Homotonous (a.) Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation. Homotropal
Homotropal (a.) Alt. of Homotropous.
Homotropous (a.) Turned in the same direction with something else.
Homotropous (a.) (Bot.) Having the radicle of the seed directed towards the hilum.
Homotypal (a.) (Biol.) Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts.
Homotype (n.) (Biol.) That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc. -- Owen. Homotypic
Homotypic (a.) Alt. of Homotypical.
Homotypical (a.) (Biol.) Same as Homotypal.
Homotypy (n.) (Biol.) A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.
Homunculi (n. pl. ) of Homunculus.
Homunculus (n.) A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. -- Sterne.
Honcho (n.) (Mainly US informal) 【美】【俚】首領；頭兒；老板 A person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" [syn: foreman, chief, gaffer, honcho, boss].
Honcho (v. t.) (Informal, Canada, US) 監督；掌管；指揮 To lead or manage.
Hond (n.) Hand. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Honduras (n.) A republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; an early center of Mayan culture [syn: Honduras, Republic of Honduras].
Honduras (n.) Officially the Republic of Honduras, 宏都拉斯共和國（西班牙語：República de Honduras），通稱宏都拉斯，中國大陸和港澳稱洪都拉斯，台灣稱宏都拉斯，中美洲共和制國家，西鄰瓜地馬拉，西南接薩爾瓦多，東南毗尼加拉瓜，東、北方濱加勒比海，南臨太平洋的洪塞加灣。大陸以外的加勒比海上還有天鵝群島、海灣群島等領土。首都德古西加巴。Is a country in Central America. In the past, it was sometimes referred to as "Spanish Honduras" to differentiate it from British Honduras, which later became modern-day Belize. [7] The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.
Honduras was home to several important Mesoamerican cultures, most notably the Maya, before the Spanish invaded in the sixteenth century. The Spanish introduced Roman Catholicism and the now predominant Spanish language, along with numerous customs that have blended with the indigenous culture. Honduras became independent in 1821 and has since been a republic, although it has consistently endured much social strife and political instability, and remains one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. In 1960, the northern part of what was the Mosquito Coast was transferred from Nicaragua to Honduras by the International Court of Justice. [8]
Hone (v. i.) To grumble; pine; lament; long. [Dial.Eng. & Southern U. S.]
Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Hone (n.) A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone. -- Tusser.
Hone slate, See Polishing slate.
Hone stone, One of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.
Hone (n.) A whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors.
Hone (v.) Sharpen with a hone; "hone a knife".
Hone (v.) Make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!" [syn: perfect, hone].
Honed (imp. & p. p.) of Hone.
Honing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hone.
Hone (v. t.) To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
Hone (v. t.) To render more precise or more effective; as, to hone one's skills.
Honest (a.) Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. -- Chaucer.
Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! -- Shak.
Honest (a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
An honest man's the noblest work of God. -- Pope.
An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health. -- Sir W. Temple.
Look ye out among you seven men of honest report. -- Acts vi. 3.
Provide things honest in the sight of all men. -- Rom. xii. 17.
Honest (a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
Honest (a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. -- Shak.
Syn: Upright; ingenuous; honorable; trusty; faithful; equitable; fair; just; rightful; sincere; frank; candid; genuine.
Honest (v. t.) To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable. [Obs.] -- Abp. Sandys.
Honest (a.) Not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting" [syn: honest, honorable] [ant: dishonest, dishonorable].
Honest (a.) Without dissimulation; frank; "my honest opinion".
Honest (a.) Worthy of being depended on; "a dependable worker"; "an honest working stiff"; "a reliable sourcSFLe of information"; "he was true to his word"; "I would be true for there are those who trust me" [syn: dependable, honest, reliable, true(p)].
Honest (a.) Without pretensions; "worked at an honest trade"; "good honest food".
Honest (a.) Marked by truth; "gave honest answers"; "honest reporting".
Honest (a.) Not forged; "a good dollar bill" [syn: good, honest].
Honest (a.) Gained or earned without cheating or stealing; "an honest wage"; "an fair penny" [syn: honest, fair].
Honestation (n.) The act of honesting; grace; adornment. [Obs.] -- W. Montagu.
Honestetee (n.) Honesty; honorableness. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Honestly (adv.) Honorably; becomingly; decently. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Honestly (adv.) In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. -- Shak.
To come honestly by. (a) To get honestly.
To come honestly by. (b) A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity.
Honestly (adv.) (Used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that; "honestly, I don't believe it"; "candidly, I think she doesn't have a conscience"; "frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" [syn: honestly, candidly, frankly].
Honestly (adv.) In an honest manner; "in he can't get it honestly, he is willing to steal it"; "was known for dealing aboveboard in everything" [syn: honestly, aboveboard] [ant: deceitfully, dishonestly, venally].
Honesty (n.) Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. -- Shak.
Honesty (n.) The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. -- 1 Tim. ii. 2.
Honesty (n.) Chastity; modesty. -- Chaucer.
To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. -- Shak.
Honesty (n.) (Bot.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
Syn: Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity.
Lunaria (prop. n.) A small genus of European herbs of the mustard family, honesty+({Lunaria+annua">including the herb honesty ({Lunaria annua), which is also called moonwort and lunary.
Syn: genus Lunaria.
Honesty (n.) The quality of being honest [syn: honesty, honestness] [ant: dishonesty].
Honesty (n.) Southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration [syn: honesty, silver dollar, money plant, satin flower, satinpod, Lunaria annua].
Honesty. () That principle which requires us to give every one his due. Nul ne doit slenrichir aux de ens du droit d'autrui.
Honesty. () 2. The very object of social order is to promote honesty, and to restrain dishonesty; to do justice and to prevent injustice. It is no less a maxim of law than of religion, do unto others as you wish to be done by.
Honewort (n.) (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.
Honey (n.) A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
Honey (n.) That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
The honey of his language. -- Shak.
Honey (n.) Sweet one; -- a term of endearment. -- Chaucer.
Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus. -- Shak.
Note: Honey is often used adjectively or as the first part of compound; as, honeydew or honey dew; honey guide or honeyguide; honey locust or honey-locust.
Honey+ant+(Zool.),+A+small+ant+({Myrmecocystus+melliger">Honey ant (Zool.), a small ant ({Myrmecocystus melliger), found in the Southwestern United States, and in Mexico, living in subterranean formicares. There are larger and smaller ordinary workers, and others, which serve as receptacles or cells for the storage of honey, their abdomens becoming distended to the size of a currant.
These, in times of scarcity, regurgitate the honey and feed the rest.
Honey badger (Zool.), The ratel.
Honey bear. (Zool.) See Kinkajou.
Honey buzzard (Zool.), A bird related to the kites, of the genus Pernis. The European species is Pernis apivorus; the Indian or crested honey buzzard is Pernis ptilorhyncha. They feed upon honey and the larv[ae] of bees. Called also bee hawk, bee kite.
Honey guide (Zool.), One of several species of small birds of the family Indicatorid[ae], inhabiting Africa and the East Indies. They have the habit of leading persons to the nests to wild bees. Called also honeybird, and indicator.
Honey harvest, The gathering of honey from hives, or the honey which is gathered. -- Dryden.
Honey kite. (Zool.) See Honey buzzard (above).
Honey locust (Bot.), A North American tree ({Gleditschia triacanthos), armed with thorns, and having long pods with a sweet pulp between the seeds.
Honey month. Same as Honeymoon.
Honey weasel (Zool.), The ratel.
Honeyed (imp. & p. p.) of Honey.
Honeying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Honey.
Honey (v. i.) To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. "Honeying and making love." -- Shak.
Rough to common men, But honey at the whisper of a lord. -- Tennyson.
Honey (v. t.) To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech? -- Marston.
Honey (a.) Of something having the color of honey.
Honey (n.) A sweet yellow liquid produced by bees.
Honey (n.) A beloved person; used as terms of endearment [syn: beloved, dear, dearest, honey, love].
Honey (v.) Sweeten with honey.
Honey-bag (n.) (Zool.) The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. -- Shak. Grew.
Honeybee (n.) (Zool.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee ({Apis mellifica), the Italian bee ({A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee ({A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
Honeybee (n.) Social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces [syn: honeybee, Apis mellifera].
Honeybird (n.) (Zool.) 蜂鳥 The honey guide.
Honeycomb (n.) A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
Honeycomb (n.) Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.
Honeycomb moth (Zool.), The wax moth.
Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See Reticulum.
Honeycomb (n.) A structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae.
Honeycomb (n.) A framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees.
Honeycomb (v.) Carve a honeycomb pattern into; "The cliffs were honeycombed".
Honeycomb (v.) Penetrate thoroughly and into every part; "the revolutionaries honeycombed the organization".
Honeycomb (v.) Make full of cavities, like a honeycomb.
Honeycombed (a.) Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.
Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. -- Motley. Honeycreeper
Honeycombed (a.) Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) [syn: alveolate, faveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted].
Honeydew (n.) A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids.
Honeydew (n.) A kind of tobacco moistened with molasses.
Honeydew (n.) A honeydew melon.
Honeydew (n.) The fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh [syn: honeydew, honeydew melon].
Honeyed (a.) Covered with honey.
Honeyed (a.) Sweet, as, honeyed words. -- Milton. Honey eater
Honeyed (a.) With honey added [syn: honeyed, honied, syrupy].
Honeyed (a.) Pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet].
Honeyless (a.) Destitute of honey. -- Shak.
Honeymoon (n.) The first month after marriage. -- Addison.
Honeymoon (n.) A vacation taken together by a newly married couple, usually including a trip away from home.
Honeymoon (n.) Hence: [fig.] Any initial period of harmony after two or more people or organizations begin working together; as, the usual honeymoon for a newly elected president was cut short by resumption of partisan sniping over the budget.
Honey-mouthed (a.) Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive. -- Shak.
Honeystone (n.) See Mellite.
Honeysucker (n.) (Zool.) See Honey eater.
Honeysucker (n.) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar [syn: honey eater, honeysucker].
Honeysuckle (n.) (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.
Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, Lonicera Caprifolium, and Lonicera Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; Lonicera Periclymenum, the fragrant woodbine of England; Lonicera grata, the American woodbine, and Lonicera sempervirens, the red-flowered trumpet honeysuckle. The European fly honeysuckle is Lonicera Xylosteum; the American, Lonicera ciliata. The American Pinxter flower ({Azalea nudiflora) is often called honeysuckle, or false honeysuckle. The name Australian honeysuckle is applied to one or more trees of the genus Banksia. See French honeysuckle, under French.
Honeysuckle (n.) Shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera.
Honeysuckle (n.) Shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers [syn: honeysuckle, Australian honeysuckle, coast banksia, Banksia integrifolia].
Honeysuckle (n.) Columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers [syn: meeting house, honeysuckle, Aquilegia canadensis].
Honeysuckled (a.) Covered with honeysuckles.
Honey-sweet (a.) Sweet as honey. -- Chaucer.
Honey-tongued (a.) Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. -- Shak.
Honeyware (n.) (Bot.) See Badderlocks.
Honeywort (n.) (Bot.) A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. -- Loudon.
Hong (n.) A mercantile establishment or factory for foreign trade in China, as formerly at Canton; a succession of offices connected by a common passage and used for business or storage.
Hong merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.
Hong (v. t. & i.) To hang. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Honied (a.) See Honeyed.