HOM 



lice aforethought, as descriptive of the 

 crime of murder, it must not be under- 

 stood in that narrow restrained sense, to 

 which the modern use of the word malice 

 is apt to lead one, a principle of malevo- 

 lence to particulars ; for the law, by the 

 term malice, in this instance, means, that 

 the fact has been attended with such cir- 

 cumstances, as are the ordinary symptoms 

 of a wicked heart, regardless of social 

 duty, and fatally bent upon mischief. 



The law so far abhors all duelling in 

 cold blood, that not only the principal 

 who actually kills the other, but also his 

 seconds are guilty of murder, whether 

 they fought or not ; and it is holclen that 

 the seconds of the person killed are also 

 equally guilty, in respect to the counte- 

 nance which they give to their principals 

 in the execution of their purpose, by ac- 

 companying them therein, and being rea. 

 dy to bear a part with them. Also it beems 

 agreed, that no breach of a man's word or 

 promise, no trespass either to land or 

 goods, no affront by bare words. or ges- 

 tures, however false or malicious it may 

 be, and aggravated with the most provok- 

 ing circumstances, will excuse him from 

 being guilty of murder, who is so far 

 transported thereby, as immediately to 

 attack the person who offend, in such a 

 manner us manifestly endangers his life, 

 without giving him time to put himself 

 upon his guard, if he kill him in pursu- 

 ance of such assault, whether the person 

 slain did at all fight in his defence or not. 



HOMINE, replegiand'j, a writ to bail a 

 man out of prison, now disused on account 

 of the superior advantage of the habeas 

 corpus. 



HOMO, man, in natural history, is reck- 

 oned by Linnaeus under the order Pri- 

 mates, which is characterised by having 

 four cutting teeth in the upper and lower 

 jaw, and two mammze in the breast. There 

 are two species, 1. H. sapiens, including 

 six varietieSjTzr. the wilclman, four- footed, 

 mute, hairy. 2. American, copper-colour- 

 ed, choleric, erect. 3. European, fair, san- 

 guine, brawny. 4. Asiatic, snooty, melan- 

 choly, rigid, 5. African, black, phlegma- 

 tic, relaxed. 'II. H. monstrosus, including 



1. The mountaineer, small, active, timid, 



2. Patagonian, large, indolent. 3. Hotten- 

 tot, less fertile. 4. American, beardless. 

 5. Chinese, head conic. 6. Canadian, head 

 flattened. See MAN. 



HOMOGENEOUS, or HOMOGEX EAL, an 

 appellation given to things, the parts of 

 which are similar, OP of the same nature 

 and properties. 



HOMOGENEOUS light t that whose rays 



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HON 



are all of one colour and degree of re- 

 frangibility,without any mixture of others. 

 See the article COLOL*B. 



HOMOGENEOUS surds, those which have 

 the same radical character, or signs, as 

 */ <, and 2^ b. See the article SUKD. 



HOMOLOGOUS, in geometry, an ap- 

 pellation given to the corresponding sides 

 and angles of similar figures, as being 

 proportional to each other. 



All similar figures have their like sides 

 homologous, or proportional to one an- 

 other : their areas also are homologous, 

 or proportional to the squares of the like 

 sides, and their solid contents are homo- 

 logous, or proportional to the cubes of the 

 same. 



HONE, a fine kind of whetstone, used 

 for setting razors,pen-knives,and the like. 



HONEY, a vegetable product, very si- 

 milar in its properties to sugar. It is 

 found in large quantities in a number of 

 vegetables, is collected by the bee, and is 

 fed upon by many insects. It is always 

 formed in the flower, chiefly at the base 

 of the pistil, and it seems designed to re- 

 ceive and retain the fecundating pollen. 

 Honey differs much in colour and in con- 

 sistence ; it contains much saccharine 

 matter, and probably some mucilage, 

 from which it derives its softness andvi*- 

 cosity. Honey very readily enters into the 

 vinous fermentation, and yields a strong 

 liquor called mead. There are two spe- 

 cies of honey, the one is yellow, transpa- 

 rent, and of the consistence of turpen- 

 tine ; the other white, and capable of as- 

 suming a solid form, and of concreting in- 

 to regular spheres. These two species 

 are often united ; they may be separated 

 by means of alcohol, which dissolves the 

 liquid fconey much more readily than the 

 solid. Honey has never been accurately 

 analyzed, but some late experiments go 

 to prove it is composed of sugar, muci- 

 lage, and an acid. 



In France, a good swarm of bees, in 

 two years, will yield near thirty pounds 

 of honey ; and they are still more profita- 

 ble in countries that are covered with 

 flowers the greatest part ofthe year. There 

 are two sorts of honey, the white and the 

 yellow. The white or virgin honey trickles 

 out spontaneously from the combs. These 

 they break, soon after they are made, and 

 lay them upon hurdles or mats of osier 

 or on linen cloth, fastened at the four cor- 

 ners to as many posts, and then an excel- 

 lent white honey will fall from the combs, 

 and grow hard in a short time. After- 

 wards they|put it into glazed earthen pots. 

 Some press this honey out, but then it is 



