A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters.

An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.

Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology.

an informal term for a youth or man.

A felt hat with a crown that is creased lengthwise, and a brim that is slightly curled upward at the edge.

To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.

To return home.

a complete circuit of the bases made by the batter without being put out and without an error on the play; also, the hit on which the batter makes such a circuit; a four-base hit.

the town (or city) where a person was born or grew up or has his principal residence; as, he never went back to his hometown again.

Kept at home, usually due to illness; same as housebound.

Bred at home; domestic; not foreign.

A return home.

Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.

Keeping at home.

Felt in one's own breast; inward; private.

grown or produced at home or in a specific locality; -- of plants or animals.

A staying at home.

Receiving or having received formal education, especially primary or secondary education, at home rather than in a school. The instruction at home may be accomplished by parents or by professionals who come to the home; as, home-schooled students often get higher test scores than those educated in schools.

Direct, forcible, and effective speaking.

a person who seldom goes anywhere; one not given to wandering or travel.

Native; indigenous; not foreign.

someone who builds houses as a business.

A field adjacent to its owner's home.

Destitute of a home.

Those people who have no permanent residence, especially those who live outdoors due to poverty; usually used in the definite phrase the homeless.

the state or condition of having no home, especially of living in the streets.

Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly; as, a homelike atmosphere.

Plainly; inelegantly.

Domesticity; care of home.

A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling.

Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed.

The European sand ray (Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.

Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country.

A practitioner of homeopathy.

Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy.

According to the practice of homeopathy.

A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy.

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.

The ability and tendency of certain systems to maintain a relatively constant internal state in spite of changes in external conditions; this ability is achieved by the presence of feedback mechanisms which can adjust the state of the system to compensate for changes in the state caused by the external environment. It is exemplified in homeothermal biological systems, such as animals which maintain relatively constant blood temperature and composition in spite of variations in external temperature or the composition of the food ingested.

Of or pertaining to homeostasis; exhibiting homeostasis.

In a homeostatic manner.

A homoiothermal animal.

having constant and relatively high body temperature; warm-blooded; same as homoiothermal; -- of birds and mammals. Contrasted to poikilothermal.

The process or state of being homoiothermal.

Same as Home run.

Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer.

The practise of providing formal education, especially primary or secondary education, at home rather than in a school.

Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition.

Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.

Place of a home; homestead.

The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it.

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.

the straight segment of a racetrack leading to the finish line.

Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.

Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country.

preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home).

A person who works at home for pay.

having a feeling of home; cozy and comfortable; as, the homey everyday atmosphere; a restaurant with a homey atmosphere.

Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous; as, a homicidal maniac.

The killing of one human being by another.

A homilist.

Of or pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable.

The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.

One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.

A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.

Of humankind as a species; as, the hominal kingdom.

Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

Any animal of the family Hominidae, including modern man as well as extinct species of the genera Homo and Australopithecus.

The natural family of primates including modern man and the extinct immediate ancestors of man.

characteristic of humankind.

A superfamily of mammals including anthropoid apes and human beings.

Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.

Like a home or a home circle.

A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock.

Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.

A category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes.

Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

Having the same center.

Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal.

The possession of a homocercal tail.

A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin.

Having all the florets in the same flower head of the same color.

A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.

Relating to homodermy; originating from the same germ layer.

Homology of the germinal layers.

Having all the teeth similar in front, as in the porpoises; -- opposed to heterodont.

Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.

Homodynamous.

Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals.

The homology of metameres. See Metamere.

The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or first principles; likeness or identity of parts.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, sameness of parts; receiving or advocating the doctrine of homogeneity of elements or first principles.

Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds.

Same as Hom/omeria.

A near similarity of crystalline forms between unlike chemical compounds. See Isomorphism.

Manifesting hom/omorphism.

Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.

See Homoiothermal.

Pertaining to, or including, similar forms or kinds of life; as, hom/ozoic belts on the earth's surface.

Having all the flowers alike; -- said of such composite plants as Eupatorium, and the thistels.

The condition of being homogamous.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system symmetrically arranged, as in certain invertebrates; -- opposed to heterogangliate.

Homogeneous.

Homogeneous.

Homogeneousness.

Same as Homogeneousness.

Of the same kind of nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature; -- opposed to heterogeneous; as, homogeneous particles, elements, or principles; homogeneous bodies.

Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.

That method of reproduction in which the successive generations are alike, the offspring, either animal or plant, running through the same cycle of existence as the parent; gamogenesis; -- opposed to heterogenesis.

Homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.

To blend (a collection of unlike elements) together so as to make the whole uniform in character, composition, or function.

formed by blending unlike elements, especially by reducing one element to particles and dispersing them throughout another substance.

Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.

Joint nature.

Having all the flowers of a plant alike in respect to the stamens and pistils.

The condition of having homogonous flowers.

One of two or more words identical in orthography, but having different derivations and meanings; as, fair, n., a market, and fair, a., beautiful.

Employing a single and separate character to represent each sound; -- said of certain methods of spelling words.

That method of spelling in which every sound is represented by a single character, which indicates that sound and no other.