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.

In human form.

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.

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.

A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.

A homoiothermal animal.

Maintaining a uniform body temperature, usually above the ambient temperature; h/matothermal; homothermic; warm-blooded; -- applied to warm-bodied animals such as birds and mammals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.

The process or state of being homoiothermal.

Of or pertaining to Homoiousians, or their belief.

To approve; to allow; to confirm; as, the court homologates a proceeding.

Confirmation or ratification (as of something otherwise null and void), by a court or a grantor.

Pertaining to homology; having a structural affinity proceeding from, or base upon, that kind of relation termed homology.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, homology; as, homologinic qualities, or differences.

To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

See Homologue.

Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.

Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure. Corresponding in relative position and proportion.

Preserving the mutual relations of parts, especially as to size and form; maintaining relative proportion.

That which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale.

The quality of being homologous; correspondence; relation; as, the homologyof similar polygons.

Uniformly bending or curving to one side; -- said of leaves which grow on several sides of a stem.

Same as Homomorphy.

Characterized by homomorphism.

Similarity of form; resemblance in external characters, while widely different in fundamental structure; resemblance in geometric ground form. See Homophyly, Promorphology.

Of or pertaining to homonomy.

The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes.

A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.

Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; -- opposed to heteronymous.

In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.

Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations.

Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.

A strong dislike or fear of homosexuals, especially to an unreasonable degree.

Disliking or fearing homosexuals to an unreasonable degree.

A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another.

Of or pertaining to a homophone or homophony; as, homophonous words.

Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic. 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.

Sameness of sound.

Relating to homophily.

That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting.

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.

One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homo/rgan.

Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.

The formation of homologous tissues.

See Homogeny.

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.

One of the Homoptera.

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.

An homopter.

Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.

Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants.

Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.

Same as Homotaxis.

Relating to homotaxis.

Similarly in arrangement of parts; -- the opposite of heterotaxy.

Same as Homotaxis.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; h/matothermal.

Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.

Turned in the same direction with something else.