holus-bolus 
holus-bolus (ho'lus-bo'lus), w. [See holus- 
bolus, flrfr.] The whole; all, taken collective- 
ly: as, he drove out the koAW-tehM of them. 
[Colloq., Eng.] 
holwet, An obsolete variant of hollow 1 . 
Chaucer. 
holy (ho'li), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also holie; 
< ME. holy, holi, halig, < AS. halig = OS. Itelag 
= OFries. helich = D. heilig = OHG. heilag, 
MHG. heilec, G. heilig = Icel. heilagr, contr. 
lielgir = Sw. helig = Dan. heilig (not in Goth.), 
holy, sacred; prob. not a mere extension of 
the primitive adj., AS. hdl, ME. hole, E. whole, 
but rather formed, with adj. suffix -ig, E. -y, 
from AS. 1ml (orig. "halt), hcelu, hislo, f. (> 
ME. hele, E. obs. lieal\ hale?), health, safety, 
salvation, happiness, heel, n., omen, auspice (= 
OS. heli, f., = OHG. heili, f., heil, MHG. G. 
heil, neut., health, happiness, safety, salvation, 
= Icel. heill, f . (= Dan. held), good luck, hap- 
piness, heill, neut., omen, auspice: see heat*-, 
hale 2 ), < hdl, etc., whole : see whole. From the 
early form of holy are derived hallow 1 , n., a 
saint, and hallow^-, v., sanctify. In holiday, hol- 
lyhock, halibut or halibut, and halidom, holy ex- 
ists in a slightly altered or in its older form.] 
1. a. 1. Consecrated; set apart for religious 
use or uses; of sacred or religious character 
or quality: as, the holy priesthood; the holy 
sabbath ; holy oil ; holy thoughts. 
Put off thy shoes from ofl thy feet, for the place where- 
on thou staudest is hull/ ground. Ex. iii. 5. 
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast 
ye your pearls before swine. Mat. vii. 6. 
And made there the precyous sacrament of his blessyd 
body that we dayly vse at his hooly aulter, in memorye of 
the same. Sir S. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 21. 
They whilome used duly everie day 
Their service and their holie things to say. 
Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 450. 
An evil soul producing holy witness 
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek. 
Shak., M. of V., I S. 
2. Perfect in religious character and the prac- 
tices of devotion ; sanctified ; saintly. 
That holy man loseph of Armathy came vnto Pylate and 
aked of hym the body of our sauyour Ihesu cryste. 
Joseph ofArimathie (E. E. T. S.\ p. 27. 
Herod feared John, knowing that be was a just man and 
an holy. Mark vi. 20. 
Far be it from me, however, to condemn all those good 
and holy persons who have betaken themselves to this 
solitary and austere course of living. 
By. A tterbury, Sermons, I. x. 
3. Exhibiting, indicating, or befitting sanctity 
of life; devout; righteous. 
Hence a demeanour holy and unspeck'd, 
And the world's hatred, as its sure effect. 
Cowper, Truth, 1. 281. 
The King was shaken with /",/// fear; 
"The Gods," he said, "would have chosen well." 
Tennyson, The Victim. 
Holy Alliance, a league formed by the sovereigns of Rus- 
sia, Austria, and Prussia in person after the fall of Napo- 
leon, signed at Paris, September 26th, 1815, and afterward 
joined by all the other European sovereigns except those 
of Rome and England. Its professed object waa to unite 
their respective governments in a Christian brotherhood, 
but its real one was to perpetuate existing dynasties by 
then- joint opposition to all attempts at change. A spe- 
cial clause debarred any member of the Bonaparte family 
from ascending a European throne. The league came to 
an end after the French revolution of 1830. Holy bread, 
(o) The bread used for the eucharist ; a piece of such bread ; 
an altar-bread; in the Gr. Ch., same as holy loaf or holy 
lamb, (b) A eulogia, or piece of blessed bread. Holy city, 
a city regarded as particularly sacred by the adherents of 
a religious faith, as Jerusalem by Jews and Christians, 
Mecca and Medina by Mohammedans, Benares by Hin- 
dus, Rome by Roman Catholics, etc. ; specifically {cap. ], Je- 
rusalem. Holy communion. See communion. Holy 
Cross. See crossi. Holy-Cross day, holy days. See 
dnt/i. Holy cup, the eucharistic chalice. Holy disk, 
in the Gr. Cn., the paten. Holy family. ~ 
lance, loaf. See the nouns. Holy League, a name given 
to various European alliances, as that of 1611 formed by 
the Pope against the French, or the Nuremberg League of 
the Catholic powers in Germany in 15S8. For the league 
of 1576 against the Huguenots, see league. Holy Office, 
the Inquisition. Holy OIL Same as eArwui. Holy or- 
ders. See order. Holy place, in Scrip., the sanctuary 
of the tabernacle and of the temple. 
The high priest entereth into the holy plate every year 
with blood of others. Heb. Ix. 25. 
Holy places, places in which events in the life of Jesus 
Christ occurred, or where martyrs died, or where relics 
are kept. 
And so to visite the seyd holy plant in clennes of lyff. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 26. 
Holy quest, the search for the holy grail. See graitf. 
Holy Roman Empire. See empire. Holy rood. See 
rood. Holy ropet, the hemp-agrimony, Eupatorium can- 
naliinmn, the leaves of which resemble those of hemp. 
Holy Saturday. See Saturday. Holy see. See**". 
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Holy seed, an old name for wormseed, Artemisia mari- 
tima. Holy Sepulcher, spear, Spirit, sponge, stone, 
synod, table, thistle, Thursday. Se e the nouns. Holy 
tree, the tree also called the pride aflitdia, Mdia Azeda- 
rach. Holy war, water. See the nouns. Holy-water 
clerk, (a) A poor scholar, (b) A person who carried the 
holy water. Holy- water font. See/end. Holy-water 
sprinkler. (a)8&me&&aspersvrintn. (b) Same as worn- 
ing-star (a weapon), (c) In hunting, the tail of a fox. Bai- 
ley, 1731. Holy- water stick, a holy-water sprinkler or 
aspersorium. Holy Week, wilt, etc. See the nouns. 
The holy doors. See door. The Holy Land. See (and. 
- The Holy One, the Supreme Being. =Syn. 1. Sacred, 
dedicated, sanctified. See religion. 2 and 3. Devout, di- 
vine, immaculate, saintly. 
II. t n. 1. A holy man; a saint: same as hal- 
low 1 . 
Nether thou schalt gyue thin Aooii for to se corrupcion. 
Wyclif, Acts it 17 (Oil.). 
2. pi. Sacred rites; devotions. 
In Pegu there is a Varelle or Temple, like to this, which 
the King frequented to doe his /..,//, therein. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 468. 
3. A place of worship ; a sacred place. 
The Earth was their Goddesse : to their holie they ad- 
mitted nothing female, nor to their tables. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 851. 
Holy Of holies. [ME. holi of halowes (halewes) ; tr. LL. 
sanctum tanctorum.] (a) The inner or western division 
of the Jewish tabernacle, as distinguished from the outer 
part* called the /"/// place. The noly of holies was In- 
closed on three sides by the walls of the tabernacle, while 
on the fourth or eastern side a veil, ornamented with 
figures of cherubim, and suspended from four pillars of 
shlttim-wood overlaid with gold, separated it from the 
holy place (Ex. xxvi. 31 ; xxxvi. 35). The holy of holies was 
a perfect cube in its dimensions, the length, breadth, and 
height being each ten cubits. In it stood the ark of the 
testament, or ark of the covenant, of shittim-wood over- 
laid with gold. Upon the ark was the capporeth or gold- 
en mercy-Beat, the place of the divine presence (Ex. xxv. 
22), and on the capporeth were two cherubim, also of gold, 
both facing toward its center. No one but the high priest 
entered the holy of holies, and he only once a year, on the 
Day of Atonement (Lev. \vi.i. Also called the matt holy 
place and the oracle. 
The type of Christ in some one particular, as of entring 
yearly into the Holy of holies, ana such like, rested upon 
the High Priest only as more immediately personating 
our Saviour. Milton, Church-Government, 1. 5. 
(b) The sanctuary or bema of a Christian church : used 
especially by the Greek and other Oriental churches, (c) 
Among the Nestorians, a small recess at the east end of a 
churoh, containing nothing but a cross. No one, not even 
the priest, is allowed to enter it. 
holyt, v. t. [< holy, a. See hallow 1 , the older 
verb.] To canonize. Davies. 
Harp. I hug thee 
For drilling thy quick brains in this rich plot 
Of tortures 'gainst the Christians ; on ! . . . 
Theop. Both hug and Imlii me. 
llassinger, Virgin-Martyr, iL 2. 
holy-cruel (ho'li-kro'el), a. Cruel from excess 
of holy zeal. [Poetical.] 
Be not so holy -cruel ; love is holy ; 
And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts 
That you do charge men with. 
Shale., All's Well, iv. 2. 
holyday, . Formerly a common spelling of 
holiday : now rare, or used chiefly as two words 
in the literal sense of holy. 
holydonit, n. Same as halidom. 
'tin, as by thes boke. 
English Gildt (E. E. T. 8.), p. 318. 
Holy-Ohostt (ho'li-gosf ), n. The wild angelica 
of Europe, Angelica sylvestris, formerly regard- 
ed as good against poison and pestilence. See 
angelica. 
Holy-Ghost pear (ho'li-gosf par). [A name 
due to a mistaken rendering of avocado as equiv. 
to Sp. abogado, advocate, mediator: see advo- 
cate/] The alligator-pear, or avocado. 
Holy-Ghost plant (ho'li-gosf plant). Same as 
dove-plant. 
holy-hay (ho'li-ha'), n. The lucern, Medicago 
sativa. 
hqly-hempt (ho'li-hemp'), n. The plant Galeop- 
sis Ladanum. 
holy-herb (ho'li-erb'), . A European plant, 
Verbena officinalis; the vervain. 
holystone (ho'li-ston), . [Said to be so called 
because used in cleaning the decks for Sunday.] 
A soft sandstone used by seamen for scrubbing 
the decks of a ship. See the extract. 
The holystone is a large, soft stone, smooth on the bot- 
tom, with long ropes attached to each end, by which the 
crew keep it sliding fore and aft over the wet sanded decks. 
11. 11. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 208. 
holystone (ho'li-ston), r. t. ; pret. and pp. holy- 
stoned, ppr. holystoning. [< holystone, .] To 
scrub with holystone, as the deck of a vessel. 
The men are so busy Holy-stoning the quarter-deck, 
while all hands are wanted to keep the ship afloat. 
0. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 109. 
hom 1 t, . A Middle English form of home 1 . 
hom' 2 t, pron. A Middle English form of licm, 
obsolete objective plural of he. See he 1 . 
Homalium 
homacanth (hom'a-kauth), a. [< Gr. ouof, the 
same, + <kav0o, spine.] Having the characters 
of the HoiiHtrunllii. 
Homacanthi (hom-a-kan'thi), n. pi. [NL. 
(Kner, 1860), < Gr. o/iof, the same, + aKavOa, 
spine.] A section of acanthopterous fishes in 
which the dorsal spines are symmetrical and 
depressible in the same line, each one directly 
over the next succeeding one, exemplified by 
the Labrida', fomaceittrida;, Acanthurida;, etc. 
homage (horn'- or om'aj),)(. [<ME.7*oi0e,<OF. 
liiiiiiuije, hommage, Ituiiiugr, houieiiage, omenage, 
etc., F. hommage = Pr. luniieiiatge, homenage = 
Sp. homenaje = Pg. liomenaofm = It. omaggio 
(ML. reflex homagium), < ML. hominaticum, ho- 
menaticum, homatioum, homage, the service of a 
vassal or ' man,' < L. homo (homin-), a man, ML. 
a vassal: see Homo.'] 1. In feudal law, an admis- 
sion or acknowledgment to the lord of tenure 
under him; the public ceremony that bound 
the vassal to the lord, whose man he thereupon 
became, and of whom he held the land for 
which he was to render his service. 
Whan the two kyngos hadde take the oth of these two, 
a-noon the! dide to kynge Arthur their homage full dcbo- 
nerly as was right Merlin (E. E. T. S.), U. 140. 
The King of France summons King Edward to come and 
do his Homage for Gascoin. Baker, Chronicles, p. 111. 
Lewis, in 1259, obtained from his brother-in-law a final 
surrender of Normandy and homage and fealty for Gui- 
enne. Stubla, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 219. 
2. Respect or reverence paid by external ac- 
tion; obeisance; respectful or reverential re- 
gard; deferential feeling ; reverence. 
Go, go, with homage yon proud victors meet ! DrydeH. 
Proud of the Homage to his Merit done. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
The rocks proclaim the approaching Deity. . . . 
With heads declined, ye cedars, homage pay. 
Pope, Messiah, 1. 35. 
We are not to pay lip homage to principles which our 
conduct wilfully transgresses. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 518. 
3. The copyholders or tenants of a manor in 
attendance to do their duty in a court-baron. 
It was the custom for the homage to choose one of the 
tenants to collect the lord's rent for the year following. 
Too few manor rolls have been published ; but in those 
which have been made accessible you frequently find the 
lord and the homage (that is, the assembly of free tenants) 
making rules against resort to the King's Court. 
Maim, Early Law and Custom, p. 315. 
Homage ancestral, that form of homage instanced 
where a man and his ancestors have time out of mind 
held their land of the lord by homage. Liege homage, 
a homage which included fealty and certain services. 
Simple homage, a mere acknowledgment of tenure with- 
out fealty or the services consequent upon it. 
homaget (horn'- or om'aj), v. [< OF. hommager, 
pay homage to,< hommage, homage : see homage, 
.] I. trans. 1. To profess fealty to ; pay re- 
spect to by external action ; reverence. 2. To 
cause to pay homage; bring under subjection. 
To her great Neptune homaged all his streams. 
Coifley. 
II. intrans. To pay respect ; profess fealty. 
To whom Jove sometimes bends and Neptune kneels, 
Mars homageth, and Phebus will submit. 
Heywood, Love's Mistress, Big. D. 3. 
homageablet (horn'- or om'aj-a-bl), a. [< OF. 
hommageable, < hommager, pay homage to, + 
-able: 8eehomage,v.,a.ji<l-able.~] Bound to pay 
homage. 
The Earls of Flanders and Holland were most consider- 
able ; but of them two he of Holland being homageable to 
none, and having Friesland and Zealand added, was the 
more potent Howell, Letters, I. ii. 15. 
homage-jury (hom'aj-j6' / ri), n. A jury in an 
English court -baron, consisting of tenants that 
do homage, who are to inquire and make pre- 
sentments of the death of tenants, surrenders, 
admittances, and the like. Wharton. 
homager (horn'- or om'aj-er), . One who does 
or is bound to do homage ; one who holds land 
of another by homage. 
And aftur kyngys xv., 
That homaaerys to hym bene. 
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 107. (HaUiicell.) 
My Song, a fearless homager, would attend 
Thy thundering battle-axe as it cleaves the press 
Of war. Wordsworth, Eccles. Sonnets, L 35. 
Homalieae (hom-a-li'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < Homo- 
Hum + -ece.~\ A tribe of plants belonging to the 
natural order Samydacea!, typified by the genus 
Homalium. They are characterized by alternate, rarely 
opposite or verticillate, leaves ; the calyx free or adnate 
to the ovary ; and 4- to 15-merous flowers. The series Ho- 
maliece of Baillon (1873) was referred to the Bixineos. 
Homalium (ho-ma'li-um), . [NL. (orig. Oma- 
lium, Gravenh'orst, 1802), < Gr. o//a/of, even, lev- 
el, smooth, < ofiof, the same : see homo-."] 1 . In 
zool., a genus of rove-beetles, of the family A>7- 
phylinida;, of wide distribution and many spe- 
