HOMEKEEPING
HO'MEKEEPING, adjective Staying at home.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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HOMELESS
HO'MELESS, adjective Destitute of a home.
HOMELINESS
HO'MELINESS, noun [from homely.] Plainness of features; want of beauty. It expresses less than ugliness.1. Rudeness; coarseness; as the homeliness of dress or of sentiments.
HOMELOT
HO'MELOT, noun An inclosure on or near which the mansion house stands.
HOMELY
HO'MELY, adjective [from home.] Of plain features; not handsome; as a homely face. It expresses less than ugly.Let time, which makes you homely make you wise.1. Plain, like that...
HOMELYN
HO'MELYN, noun A fish.
HOMEMADE
HO'MEMADE, adjective Made at home; being of domestic manufacture; made either in private families, or in one's own country.
HOMER
HO'MERHOMER'IC, adjective Pertaining to homer the great poet of Greece, or to his poetry; resembling Homer's verse.
HOMERIC
HOMER'IC, a. Pertaining to Homer, the great poet of Greece, or to his poetry; resembling Homer's verse.
HOMESPEAKING
HO'MESPEAKING, noun Forcible and efficacious speaking.
HOMESPUN
HO'MESPUN, adjective Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture.1. Not made in foreign countries.2. Plain; coarse; rude; homely; not elegant; as a homespun English proverb...
HOMESTALL
HO'MESTALLHO'MESTEAD, noun The place of a mansion house; the inclosure or ground immediately connected with the mansion.1. Native seat; original station or place of residence.We...
HOMEWARD
HO'MEWARDHO'MEWARD-BOUND, adjective Destined for home; returning from a foreign country to the place where the owner resides; as the homeward-bound fleet. We spoke a brig homewa...
HOMEWARDS
HO'MEWARDS, adverb Toward home; toward one's habitation, or toward one's native country.
HOMICIDAL
HOM'ICIDAL, adjective [from homicide.] Pertaining to homicide; murderous bloody.
HOMICIDE
HOM'ICIDE, noun [Latin homicidium; homo, man, and caedo, to strike, to kill.]1. The killing of one man or human being by another. homicide is of three kinds, justifiable, excusa...
HOMILETIC
HOMILET'ICHOMILET'ICAL, adjective [Gr. to converse in company.]1. Pertaining to familiar intercourse; social; conversable; companionable.2.homiletic theology, a branch of practi...
HOMILIST
HOM'ILIST, noun One that preaches to a congregation.
HOMILY
HOM'ILY, noun [Gr. to converse in company, a company or assembly.]A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; or a plain, familiar discourse on some subject of reli...
HOMMOC
HOM'MOC, noun [I suppose this to be an Indian word.]A hillock or small eminence of a conical form, sometimes covered with trees.
HOMMONY
HOM'MONY, noun [Indian.] In America, maiz hulled and broken, but coarse, prepared for food by being mixed with water and boiled.
HOMOGENEAL
HOMOGE'NEALHOMOGE'NEALNESSHOMOGENE'ITY, Words not to be encouraged; equivalent to.
HOMOGENEOUS
HOMOGE'NEOUS, adjective [Gr. like, and kind.] Of the same kind or nature; consisting of similar parts, or of elements of the like nature. Thus we say, homogeneous particles, ele...
HOMOGENEOUSNESS
HOMOGE'NEOUSNESS, noun Sameness of kind or nature.
HOMOGENY
HOM'OGENY, noun Joint nature.
HOMOLOGATE
HOMOL'OGATE, verb transitive [Gr. like, and to speak.] To approve; to allow.
HOMOLOGOUS
HOMOL'OGOUS, adjective [Gr. similar, and proportion.] Proportional to each other; a term in geometry, applied to the corresponding sides and angles of similar figures; as, homol...