Part 871

Man, disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven.

Milton.

Hom"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Homaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Homaging.] [Cf. OF. hommager.] 1. To pay reverence to by external action. [R.]

2. To cause to pay homage. [Obs.] Cowley.

Hom"age*a*ble (?), a. [Cf. OF. hommageable.] Subject to homage. Howell.

Hom"a*ger (?), n. [From Homage: cf. F. hommager.] One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal. Bacon.

Hom`a*lo*graph"ic (?), a. Same as Homolographic.

{ Hom"a*loid (hm"*loid), Hom`a*loid"al (-loid"al), } a. [Gr. "omalo`s even + -oid.] (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.

||Hom"a*rus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "omarh`s well adjusted.] (Zoˆl.) A ||genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. -- ||Hom"a*roid (#), a.

Ho*mat"ro*pine (?), n. [Homo- + atropine.] (Med.) An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.

Hom`ax*o"ni*al (?), a. [Homo- + Gr. &?; an axle, axis.] (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 (hm), n. (Zoˆl.) See Homelyn.

Home (110), [OE. hom, ham, AS. hm; akin to OS. hm, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. kÎmas, and perh. to Gr. kw`mh village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr.kshma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. √20, 220.] 1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.