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.
2. 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, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an
honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest
confession.
An honest man's the noblest work of God.
Pope.
An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no
farther to his health.
Sir W. Temple.
Look ye out among you seven men of honest report.
Acts vi. 3.
Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
Rom. xii. 17.