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.
5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a
home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the
native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
Eccl. xii. 5.