Part 5357

<h1>Homilite</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Hom"i*lite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From Gr. <?/ to be in company with.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.</def>

<h1>Homily</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Hom"i*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Homilies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[LL. <ets>homilia</ets>, Gr. <?/ communion, assembly, converse, sermon, fr. <?/ an assembly, fr. <?/ same; cf. <?/ together, and <?/ crowd, cf. <?/ to press: cf. F. <ets>hom\'82lie</ets>. See <er>Same</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life.</def>

<blockquote>As I have heard my father Deal out in his long <b>homilies</b>. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Book of Homilies</col>. <cd>A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued in the reign of Elizabeth; -- both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesome doctrine."</cd></cs>

<h1>Homing</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Hom"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.</def>

<h1>Hominy</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Hom"i*ny</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From North American Indian <ets>auh\'a3minea</ets> parched corn.]</ety> <def>Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark> <altsp>[Written also <asp>homony</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Homish</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Hom"ish</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a home or a home circle.</def>

<blockquote>Quiet, cheerful, <b>homish</b> hospital life. <i>E. E. Hale.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hommock</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Hom"mock</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See <er>Hummock</er>.</def>

<i>Bartram.</i>

<h1>Hommocky</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Hom"mock*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.</def>

<h1>Homo-</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho"mo-</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A combining form from Gr. <grk>"omo`s</grk>, <i>one and the same</i>, <i>common</i>, <i>joint</i>.</def>

<h1>Homocategoric</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*cat`e*gor"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Homo-</ets> + <ets>categoric</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.</def>

<h1>Homocentric</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*cen"tric</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/: <?/ the same + <?/ center: cf. F. <ets>homocentrique</ets>.]</ety> <def>Having the same center.</def>

<h1>Homocercal</h1> <Xpage=701>

<hw>Ho`mo*cer"cal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Homo-</ets> + Gr. <?/ tail.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to <i>heterocercal</i>.</def>