Homalium 
cies, which live upon plants 
or under the bark of trees. 
2. In bot., a large genus 
of dicotyledonous polypet- 
alous shrubs or trees, found- 
ed by Jacques (1763), of the 
natural order Samydacece, 
and type of the tribe Uoma- 
lieai. It is characterized by hav- 
ing the ovary more or less adnate 
to the calyx, and the petals as nu- 
merous as the sepals, and plane. 
The leaves are alternate, petioled, 
ovate or lanceolate, and crenate or 
serrate, rarely entire ; the flowers 
are small and disposed in branch- 
ing axillary panicles. About 30 (Line shows natural size.) 
species are known, natives of Asia, 
Africa, northern Australia, the Fiji Islands, and tropical 
America. 
Homalogonatae (hom' 1 'a-lo-gon'a-te), n. pi. 
[NL., fern. pi. of homalogonatus: "see homalo- 
gonatous.'] A division of birds proposed by 
Garrod, to include all those which possess a cer- 
tain muscle of the leg, the ambiens: opposed 
to Anomalogonatce. 
homalogonatous (hom"a-lo-gon'a-tus), a. [< 
NL. homalogonatus, < Gr. 6/ia).6f, even, level, 
equal, + ybm = E. knee.] In ornith., provided 
with an ambiens muscle. 
Passeres have no ambiens; . . . birds having it are term- 
edAowa/o</ona(Guor"normally-kneed"; . . . thosewant- 
ing it are called anomalogonatous. 
Coues, Key to N. A. Birds, p. 195. 
Homalogyra (hom"a-lo-ji'ra), w. [NL., < Gr. 
6fia'/.6(, even, level, equal, + yvpof, a ring, cir- 
cle.] A genus of gastropods, typical of the 
family Homalogyridte. 
Homalogyridae (hom"a-lo-jir'i-de), n.pl. [NL., 
< Homalogyra + -ida?.] A family of gastropods, 
typified by the genus Homalogyra. The animal 
has no tentacles ; it nas sessile eyes, and a very peculiar 
radula, the central tooth having a quadrangular base and 
triangular cusp, the lateral and marginal teeth being repre- 
sented by a single oblong transverse plate; the shell is 
planorbiform ; and the operculum is corneous and has a 
central nucleus. Only one small species, Homalogyra niti- 
dissima, of the European seas, is known. 
homaloidal (hpm-a-loi'dal), a. [< Gr. o/ieuof, 
even, level, 4- i i8o$ , f onn, 4- -al.] In geom., simi- 
lar to a plane ; flat ; having real points at all 
real distances, but none at imaginary distances. 
Homaloidal system, a system of lines on a plane rep- 
resenting another surface ; also, a system of surfaces such 
that every three cut in a single point. 
Homalomyia (hom"a-lo-mi'i-a), n. [NL., < Gr. 
o/ia/of, even, level, "equal, + [tvia, a fly: see 
Musca.] A genus of flies founded by Bouch6 
in 1834, distinguished 
from Anthomyia by the 
narrower cheeks, more 
rounded head, and less 
hairy abdomen. The larvae 
are found in moist decaying 
matter, both animal and vegeta- 
ble ; they breathe by lateral 
branchiee. Numerous cases are 
on record of the voiding of these 
larvae from the intestines of hu- 
man beings, but in such cases 
they have probably entered the 
body in over-ripe fruit or vege- 
tables. 
Homaloptera (hom-a-lop'- 
te-ra), n. pi. [NL., neut. 
pi. of "homalopterns : see 
homalopterous?] An order 
of insects, corresponding . Urva of llmt ., myia 
to the Suborder Pupipara (line shows natural size); t. 
otlHptera, Leach, IS17. ****' ***>* 
homalopterous (hom-a-lop'te-rus), a. [< NL. 
*homalopterus, < Gr. o//aAof, even, level, + nre- 
p6v, wing.] Pertaining to the Homaloptera. 
homalosternal (hom"a-lo-ster'nal), a. [< Gr. 
6//o/.df, even, level, + orepvov, sternum.] Flat, 
as a breast-bone; having a keelless sternum; 
ratite, as a bird. 
Homalosternii(hom"a-lo-ster'ni-!),w.^. [NL., 
< Gr. ofiaUf, even, level, + arepvov, sternum.] 
One of the primary divisions of recent birds, 
including all those in which the breast-bone is 
not keeled or carinate; the Struthiones orEati- 
tce: opposed to Tropidosternii. [Little used.] 
Homaridae (ho-mar'i-de), n.pl. [NL., < Homa- 
rus + -id<e.] A family of macrurous crusta- 
ceans, containing the lobsters of the genera 
Homarus and Nephrops. 
homarine (hom'a-rin), a. and M. [< Homarus + 
-iwel.] I. .. Resembling a lobster, or having 
the characteristics of a lobster. Huxley. 
II. n. A lobster. 
A marine Astacine or a true Homarine. 
Huxley, Crayfish, p. 316. 
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Homarus (hom'a-rus), n. [NL., < OF. 
mod. F. Jwmard,' Norm, houmar, < LG. hummer 
(>G. hummrr) = S\v. Dan. hummer, OSw. hmn- 
mare = Icel. human; lobster; cf. Gr. Kaufta- 
pof, Kafiapui;, > L. camntarus, gammariis, a kind 
of lobster.] A genus of long-tailed crusta- 
ceans or lobsters, belonging to the family Ho- 
nuiridai. There are three species, //. americanun, mdga- 
ris, and capetisi-i, of North America, Europe, and Africa 
respectively. In spite of the large size and general ap- 
pearance, the species of lloinarus are related to the craw- 
fish (Antaeus and Cambarus), and are usually placed in 
Astaculce, but differ in being marine. Milne-Edwards. 
homatqmic (horn-a-tom'ik), a. [< Gr. <V;?, the 
same, in comp. together, + E. atomic.] Com- 
posed of atoms of the same kind. 
hpmatropia (hom-a-tro'pi-a), n. [NL., < Gr. 
Ojuof, the same, in comp. together, + NL. atro- 
pia.~\ Same as Jiomatropine. 
homatropine (ho-mat'ro-pin), . [< Gr. a//*:, 
the same, in comp. together, + E. atrapine.] 
An alkaloid (C j 6 H 2 iNOo) crystallizing in color- 
less prisms which are deliquescent, but difficult- 
ly soluble in water. It is derived from atropine, an 
alkaloid prepared from belladonna. Salts of homatropine 
are used to some extent in medicine. 
Homaxonia (hom-ak-so'ni-a), n. pi. [NL., < 
Gr. 6ft6f, the same, + dfuvj' an axle : see ax 2 , 
axis 1 , axle.'] In morphology, organic forms all 
of whose axes are equal : correlated with I'ro- 
taxonia. 
homaxonial (hom-ak-so'ni-al), a. [As Homaxo- 
nia + -al.] Having all ttie axes equal; spe- 
cifically, of or pertaining to the Homaxonia. 
All questions of symmetry, for which Haeckel's nomen- 
clature of homaxonial, homopolic, &c., is distinctly pref- 
erable. Encyc. Brit., XVI. 845. 
homaxonic (hom-ak-son'ik), . [As Homaxonia 
+ -ic.] Same as homaxonial. 
A spherical (homaxonic) or cone-shaped (monaxonic) per- 
forated shell of membranous consistence known as the cen- 
tral capsule, and probably homologous with the perforated 
shell of a Globigerina. 
E. R. Lemkester, Encyc. Brit, XIX. 849. 
hombre (om'br), . Same as oiriber. [Rare.] 
home (horn), n. and a. [< ME. home, hoom, 
horn, ham, < AS. ham, a home, dwelling, = OS. 
OFries. hem = MD. heym, home, dwelling, D. 
only in comp. heimelijk, private, secret (= E. 
homely), = OHG. MHG. G. lieim = Icel. heimr, 
an abode, village, heima, home, = Sw. hem = 
Dan. hjem, home, = Goth, haims, a village (the 
sense 'home' being approached in the deriv. ad- 
jectives ana-haims, present, 'at homeland af- 
haims, absent, 'from home'), = Lith. kemas = 
Gr. K<fy7 (for *K<J/a/y), a village (see comic, com- 
edy), = Skt. ksema, abode, place of rest, security, 
for "skema, < / *ski, ksi, dwell. The OTeut. 
sense of ' village ' is preserved in many place- 
names in -ham, AS. -ham, G. -heim, etc., as Bir- 
mingham, Cheltenham, Nottingham, G. Hochheim, 
Mannheim, etc.; also in dim. hamlet 1 , q. v.] I. 
re. 1. A dwelling; the residence of a family 
or household; a seat of domestic life and in- 
terests; hence, one's abode; the house in which 
one has his fixed or usual residence, or which he 
regards as his definite dwelling-place. 
His great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him 
To his home before us. Shak., Macbeth, L 6. 
All blended into that glow of feeling which finds its 
centre and hope and joy in Home. 
D. Q. Mitchell, Reveries of a Bachelor. 
2. The place or region in which one lives ; one's 
own locality or country. 
Now powers from home, and discontents at home, 
Meet in one line. Shak., K. John, iv. 3. 
And the star-spangled banner, long may it wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ! 
Key, Star-spangled Banner. 
3. The place or region where some specified 
thing is most common, indigenous, or native ; 
the seat or native habitat. 
Flandria, by plenty, made the home of war. 
Prior, Ode to the Queen. 
Her melancholy eyes divine, 
The home of woe without a tear. 
Tennyson, Mariana in the South. 
4. An institute or establishment designed to 
afford the comforts of domestic life to the 
homeless, sick, or destitute: as, a sailors' or 
soldiers' home; a home for the aged. 5. In 
games, the ultimate point to which a player 
runs, or to which effort is directed ; the goal. 
The prison children . . . whooped and ran, and played 
at hide and seek, and made the iron bars of the inner gate- 
way Home. Dickens, Little Dorrit, L 7. 
Specifically (o) In base-ball, the space or base immedi- 
ately in front of the batters' position. See base-ball, (u) 
In lacrosse, the position of a player who stands just in 
front of his opponents' goal, and who tries to throw the 
home 
ball through it ; also, the player himself. At home, (a) 
In or about one's own house or lodgings; at the abode of 
the household to which one belongs ; hence, having a sense 
of freedom and familiarity, as in one's house. 
They may teach the young women to be ... discreet, 
chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own hus- 
bands. Tit. ii. 6. 
And though they carry nothing forth with them, yet 
in all their journey they lack nothing. For wheresoever 
they come, they be At Home. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 6. 
(1>) In the position of being thoroughly familiar with a sub- 
ject; conversant: as, to bea< home in a science, (c) In one's 
own country. 
Travellers ne'er did lie, 
Though fools at home condemn them. 
SAot., Tempest, ill. 3. 
(d) Prepared to receive social calls or visits : a conven- 
tional phrase. Hence, as a noun () A time fixed for re- 
ceiving callers ; a reception. 
"Invitations!" cried Miss Gascolgne, "... and to 
the best houses in Avonsbridge, too. This is the result 
of your At Home." Mrs. Craik, Christian's Mistake, v. 
Long home, the grave. 
Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about 
the streets. Eccl. xii. 5. 
They went all to their long home. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 564. 
To eat one out of house and home. See eat. To go 
home by beggar's bush. See beggar. To make one's 
self at home, to conduct one's self in another's house as 
unrestrainedly as if at home. 
II. a. 1. Connected with one's home or place 
of abode, or with one's country; domestic: 
often opposed to foreign. 
Let the exportation of home commodities be more in 
value than the importation of foreign. Bacon. 
Last from her own Aoj/ie-circle of the poor 
They barr'd her. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
2. Close; to the point; effective; coming home 
to the subject or the thing: as, a home thrust 
in argument; a home blow in boxing. 
Do I resolve to grieve, and not to die? 
Happy had been the stroke thou gav'st, if home. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, iv. 4. 
I am sorry to give him such home thrusts. Stillingfleet. 
3. In sporting: (a) Situated near or at the goal ; 
final : as, the home stretch ; the home base. (6) 
Reaching, or enabling a player to reach, home 
or the goal: as, a home run ; a home hit Home 
Department, that branch of a government (specifically 
that of Great Britain) which supervises the administration 
of internal affairs. The head of this department in Great 
Britain is called the Home Secretary, and is charged with 
the supervision of the prisons and the police force, the ad- 
ministration of criminal justice, the inspection of factories, 
etc. Home farm. See farmi. Home field, the land 
on which the farm-house or homestead is built and that 
immediately surrounding it, usually fenced off from the 
rest of the farm. 
It had the graveyard, originally Isaac Johnson's home- 
field, on one side. Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, ix. 
Home Office, in Great Britain, the governmental office in 
which the affairs of the Home Department are transacted. 
Home rule, the political principle or program in ac- 
cordance with which a city, province, state, or other com- 
ponent part of a country enjoys self-government in its in- 
ternal affairs : in British politics specifically used with 
reference to the agitation in favor of self-government in 
Ireland (begun under this name about 1870) through the 
agency of a national parliament, and less prominently also 
in Scotland and Wales. Home-Rule Bill See bills. 
home (horn), adv. [< ME. home, hoom, horn, < 
AS. ham, adv., prop, the ace. used adverbially, 
as also in G. Dan. Sw., etc.: see home, .] 1. 
To, toward, or at home, in any sense of that 
word. 
In discontent then home she went, 
And aye the tear did blin' her e'e. 
The Laird of Waristoun (Child's Ballads, III. 320). 
Thanne the Sone bryngethe hoom with him alle his Kyn, 
and his Frendes, and alle the othere to his Hows, and 
makethe hem a gret Feste. Mandeville, Travels, p. 309. 
Here she is allowed her virgin rites, 
Her maiden strewments, and the bringing //../,/, 
Of bell and burial. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 
Curses are like young chickens, 
And still come home to roost. 
Bulwer, Lady of Lyons, v. 2. 
An arrow Is home when drawn to the pile. 
M. and W. Thompson, Archery, p. 53. 
2. To the point; to the mark aimed at; so 
as to produce an intended effect; effectively; 
satisfactorily; closely: as, to strike home; to 
charge home; to speak home. 
In your letters you touch me home. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 30. 
With his prepared sword, he charges home 
My unprovided body. SAa*.,Lear, U. 1. 
Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue. 
Shak., A. and C., i. 2. 
She speaks to the matter, and comes home to the point. 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, U. 1. 
To put the affront the homer, [Prince Rupert] resolv'd 
that very day to march quite thorow the middle of the 
Quarters. 
Prince Rupert's late beating up the rebels' quarters at Post- 
[comb and Chenner (1643), p. 2. 
