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Ho*mop"ter (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Homoptera.

||Ho*mop"te*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; the same, like + &?; ||wing.] (Zoˆl.) 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.

Ho*mop"ter*an (?), n. (Zoˆl.) An homopter.

Ho*mop"ter*ous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.

Ho"mo*styled (?), a. [Homo- + style.] (Bot.) Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin.

Ho`mo*sys*tem"ic (?), a. [Homo- + systemic.] (Biol.) Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.

||Ho`mo*tax"i*a (?), n. [NL.] Same as Homotaxis.

{ Ho`mo*tax"i*al (?), Ho`mo*tax"ic (?), } a. (Biol.) Relating to homotaxis.

||Ho`mo*tax"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; the same + &?; arrangement.] ||(Biol.) Similarly in arrangement of parts; -- the opposite of ||heterotaxy.

Ho"mo*tax`y (?), n. Same as Homotaxis.

{ Ho`mo*ther"mic (?), Ho`mo*ther"mous (?), } a. [Homo- + Gr. &?; heat.] (Physiol.) Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hÊmatothermal.

Ho*mot"o*nous (?), a. [L. homotonus, Gr. &?;; &?; the same + &?; tone.] Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.

{ Ho*mot"ro*pal (?), Ho*mot"ro*pous (?), } a. [Gr. &?;; &?; the same + &?; turn, fr. &?; to turn: cf. F. homotrope.] 1. Turned in the same direction with something else.

2. (Bot.) Having the radicle of the seed directed towards the hilum.

Ho"mo*ty`pal (?), a. (Biol.) Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts.

Hom"o*type (?), n. [Homo- + - type.] (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.

{ Ho`mo*typ"ic (?), Ho`mo*typ"ic*al (?), } a. (Biol.) Same as Homotypal.

Ho"mo*ty`py (?), n. [See Homotype.] (Biol.) A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.

||Ho*mun"cu*lus (?), n.; pl. Homunculi (#). [L., dim. of homo man.] A ||little man; a dwarf; a manikin. Sterne.

Hond (?), n. Hand. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hone (?), v. i. [Etymology uncertain. √37.] To pine; to lament; to long. Lamb.

Hone, n. [Cf. Icel. hn a knob.] A kind of swelling in the cheek.

Hone, n. [AS. hn; akin to Icel. hein, OSw. hen; cf. Skr. Áa, also Á, Ái, to sharpen, and E. cone. √38, 228.] 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 slateSee Polishing slate. - - Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.

Hone, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Honed (hnd); p]. pr. & vb. n. Honing.] To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.

Hon"est (?), a. [OE. honest, onest, OF. honeste, oneste, F. honnÍte, L. honestus, fr. honos, honor, honor. See Honor.] 1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer.

Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!

Shak.