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ttr, without an intention to kill, and 

 without negligence ; excusable when it 

 proceeds from misadventure, or in self- 

 defence ; felonious when it proceeds from 

 malice, or is done in the prosecution of 

 some unlawful act. Killing premeditated 

 is murder, and suicide is felonious homi- 

 cide. Homicide comprehends murder and 

 manslaughter. 



HOM'ILETIC, pertaining to familiar dis- 

 course, from ofjt,i\Y,Tixo?, conversable. 

 Homih'tic theology is that branch of prac- 

 tical theology which teaches the manner 

 of adopting discourses to the capacities of 

 hearers, and the best methods of instruct- 

 ing congregations : called also pastoral 

 theology. 



HOM'ILI, from owXict, familiar dis- 

 course. A familiar discourse on some sub- 

 ject of religion, such as an instructor 

 would deliver to his pupils. 



HOM'INE REPLEG'IANDO. In late, a writ 

 to bail a man out of prison. 



HO'MO, man. A genus of Mammalia, 

 order Bimana. One species, but three 

 very distinct varieties : the Caucasian, or 

 white; the Mongolian, or yellow ; and the 

 Ethiopian, or negro. 



HOMOCKO'MOUS, UAV. together, and 

 K^biijux., colour. "When the florets in the 

 same flower-head are of the same colour. 



HOMOIOP'ATHY, from ou,oiof, similar, 

 and trctdo;, affection. A new medical 

 doctrine, promulgated some years since 

 by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, of Leipsig. 

 It proceeds on the principle that two dis- 

 eased actions cannot go on simultaneously 

 in the same part, and if a medicine be ad- 

 ministered to a person labouring under 

 that disease which the medicine has a na- 

 tural tendency to produce, the effect will 

 be to resolve the disease. The medicine 

 is, however, administered in infinitesimal 

 doses, as the millionth or quadrillionth 

 part of a grain ! 



HOMOG'AMOL-S, IfHt, like, and yat,fM?, 

 marriage. In grasses when all the florets 

 of the spikelets of an individual are her- 

 maphrodite. In composite plants, when 

 all the florets of a flower-head are her- 

 maphrodite. 



HOMOGF/XEA, an order of infusorial ani- 

 mals, thus named from there being no 

 appearance of viscera, or other complica- 

 tion in the body, frequently not even the 

 appearance of a mouth. 



HOMO'NTMS, O/MH, and OVOU.K, name. 

 "Words of the same sound, but of different 

 signification. 



HoMOpH'oNous,eof,andpii;in7,tone. In 

 mvsic, of the same pitch. 



HOMO'PHONT, ope;, and ai, I speak. 

 Words of the same sound but differently 

 peit. 



BONE, HONE'STONE, whet-date. A va- 



riety of talcy slate, named noraru*M fc 

 Kirwan. 



HON'KSTY. In botany, see LUNARIA. 



HON'EY, Sax. hunig. The sweet viscid 

 liquor elaborated by bees from the sweet 

 .juices of the nectars of flowers, and depo- 

 sited by them in the colls of their combs. 



HON'EY-COMB. 1. The waxen cells in 



which bees deposit their honey, &c. 



2. Among founders, a flaw in a casting, 

 the metal appearing porous or spongy. 



HON'EY-DEW, a saccharine substance 

 found on the leaves of some trees, and si id 

 to be deposited by a species of aphis, 

 called the vine-fretter. 



HON'EY-GUIDE. In ornithology, the Cu- 

 cullus indicator, Lin., found in Africa, and 

 celebrated on account of its conducting 

 persons to hives of wild honey. 



HONG. The Chinese name for the large 

 factories at Canton, where each nation has 

 a separate hong : hence the term of Hong 

 merchants. 



HONORA'RICM, Lat. honos, honour. 

 Nearly synonymous with fee. Applied to 

 the fees of professors and professional gen- 

 tlemen. 



HON'OURABLE, a title of quality attribu- 

 ted to the younger children of earls, to 

 pei-sons enjoying places of trust and 

 honour, and collectively to the House of 

 Commons and the East India Company. 



HOOD. In ships, 1. A low wooden porch 

 over the ladder which leads to the steer- 

 age of a merchant-ship. 2. The upper 



part of a galley-chimney, which being in 

 the shape of the letter S reversed, is trim- 

 med or turned round according to the 

 various directions of the wind, that the 



smoke may always fly to leeward. 3. A 



short semicylindrical frame of wood.serv- 

 ng to cover the upper wheel of a chain- 

 pump. 4. The same with WHOOD (q.v.). 



HOOK. 1. In husbandry, a sickle. 2. 



In nautical language, a crooked piece of 

 iron, of which there are several kinds, of 

 different shapes and sizes, as boat-hooks, 

 breast-hooks, can-hooks, cat-hooks, &c. 

 Foot-hooks are termed futtocks (q.v.). 

 Loof-hooks is the name given to a tackle 

 with two hooks, one to hitch into a crin- 

 gle of a fore or main-sail in the bolt-rope, 

 nd the other to hitch into a strap which 

 is spliced to the chess-tree. Their use is 

 to pull down the sail, and succour the 

 tackle of a large sail. 



HOOK AND BUTT. The scarfing or Iny- 

 ing of two ends of planks over each other. 



HOOK-PINS, bolts made with a- shoulder 

 at one end, and used by carpenters in 

 framing. 



HOP. 1. In botany, scellrMri.rs. 2. 



The floral leaf of the Hiimulttt liipulut. a 

 climbing perennial plant, said to have 

 been introduced into England from the 

 Netherlands, in the sixteenth century. Iti 

 fruit is a sort of cone, composed of n.eoi- 



