Part 5366

<h1>Homotypy</h1> <Xpage=702>

<hw>Ho"mo*ty`py</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Homotype</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of <i>serial homology</i>. See <er>Homotype</er>.</def>

<h1>Homunculus</h1> <Xpage=702>

<hw>Ho*mun"cu*lus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Homunculi</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., dim. of <ets>homo</ets> man.]</ety> <def>A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.</def>

<i>Sterne.</i>

<h1>Hond</h1> <Xpage=702>

<hw>Hond</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Hand.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Hone</h1> <Xpage=702>

<hw>Hone</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[Etymology uncertain. &root;37.]</ety> <def>To pine; to lament; to long.</def>

<i>Lamb.</i>

<h1>Hone</h1> <Xpage=702>

<hw>Hone</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Icel. <ets>h<?/n</ets> a knob.]</ety> <def>A kind of swelling in the cheek.</def>

<h1>Hone</h1> <Xpage=702>

<hw>Hone</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>h\'ben</ets>; akin to Icel. <ets>hein</ets>, OSw. <ets>hen</ets>; cf. Skr. <ets>\'87\'be<?/a</ets>, also <ets>\'87\'d3</ets>, <ets>\'87i</ets>, to sharpen, and E. <ets>cone</ets>. &root;38, 228.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<i>Tusser.</i>

<cs><col>Hone slate</col><cd>See <er>Polishing slate</er>.</cd> -- <col>Hone stone</col>, <cd>one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See <er>Novaculite</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Hone</h1> <Xpage=702>

<hw>Hone</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Honed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p]. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Honing</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; <as>as, to <ex>hone</ex> a razor</as>.</def>

<h1>Honest</h1> <Xpage=702>

<hw>Hon"est</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>honest</ets>, <ets>onest</ets>, OF. <ets>honeste</ets>, <ets>oneste</ets>, F. <ets>honn\'88te</ets>, L. <ets>honestus</ets>, fr. <ets>honos</ets>, <ets>honor</ets>, honor. See <er>Honor</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>Belong what <b>honest</b> clothes you send forth to bleaching! <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight<?/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; <as>as, an <ex>honest</ex> judge or merchant; an <ex>honest</ex> statement; an <ex>honest</ex> bargain; an <ex>honest</ex> business; an <ex>honest</ex> book; an <ex>honest</ex> confession.</as></def>

<blockquote>An <b>honest</b> man's the noblest work of God. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>An <b>honest</b> physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health. <i>Sir W. Temple.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Look ye out among you seven men of <b>honest</b> report. <i>Acts vi. 3.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Provide things <b>honest</b> in the sight of all men. <i>Rom. xii. 17.</i></blockquote>