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.

Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts.

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.

Same as Homotypal.

A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.

A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.

Hand.

To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.

To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.

The act of honesting; grace; adornment.

Honesty; honorableness.

Honorably; becomingly; decently.

Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (Sison Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.

To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.

Any of a number of small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands belonging to the subfamily Drepanidae.

An erect bushy shrub (Lambertia formosa) of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar.

The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.

One of numerous species of small passerine birds of the family Meliphagid/ having tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar, abundant in Australia and Oceania; -- called also honeysucker.

Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive.

Sweet as honey.

Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive.

Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (Apis ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (Apis 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.

The fruit of either of two trees having sweetish berries: (a) An Old World hackberry (Celtis australis). (b) In the West Indies, the genip (Melicocca bijuga).

The honey guide.

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.

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.

A type of winter melon (Cucumis melo inodorus) related to the muskmelon (Cucumis melo reticulatus), but having a smooth pale yellowish-green rind and sweet, juicy, light green flesh. It is slightly ovoid in shape, commonly about 8 to 10 inches long on the long axis.

Covered with honey.

Destitute of honey.

The first month after marriage.

See Mellite.

See Honey eater.

One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.

Covered with honeysuckles.

See Badderlocks.

To hang.

See Honeyed.

To make a sound like the honk of a goose.

The nose; -- an informal terms used in the U. S.

A white (caucasian) person; -- a term used by some African-Americans, intended to be disparaging and often taken as offensive.

Pertaining to or resembling a honky-tonk.

To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.

The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction.

In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor.

Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.

A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.

of high repute; -- of people.

a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments. Correlative of honorer or conferrer.

One who honors.

Conferring honor; tending to honor.

Destitute of honor; not honored.

Same as honor; -- chiefly British usage.

A university degree with honors; -- a term used in Great Britain.

the main island of Japan. Together with the islands of Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku it forms the bulk of the land area of Japan.

See under Hunt.

The Hungarian army in the revolutionary war of 1848-49.

See Army organization, above.

See Ho.

an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.

Same as hoodlum.

See Hooded seal, under Hooded.

Covered with a hood.

Having no hood.

A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow; colloquially, called also hood.

The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.

An old term for blindman's buff.

A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape.

Voodoo, a form of religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (esp. Haiti); it involves witchcraft and animistic deities.

To blind by covering the eyes.

The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull.

To walk as cattle.

Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.

Furnished with hoofs.

a professional dancer, especially a tap dancer.

a dance in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures.

Destitute of hoofs.

resembling a hoof.

a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal.

To bend; to curve as a hook.

A firefighting truck equipped with a ladder extendable to great length, for access to the upper stories of buildings; it also carries other firefighting equipment; called also ladder truck.

A company of firefighters who operate a hook-and-ladder truck; a fire company; called also ladder company.

Having a strongly curved bill.

Having a hooked or aquiline nose.

A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called narghile and water pipe. The hubble-bubble is a simple form of this device.

Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

One who, or that which, hooks.

See Hockey.

A little hook.

A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons.

Whole.

A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

Home.

An Indian monkey. See Entellus.