home 
Joseph, tax him home. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 3. 
To bring borne to. See bring. To come home, fall 
home, follow home, get home, etc. .see the verbs. 
To pay hornet, to urge, press, or pay to the full ; satisfy 
fully ; retaliate effectively. 
Aere nif.o me lacessis, thou gevest me scoffe for scoffe, 
or as we saie, thou paieet me home. Elyot, 1569. 
All iy services 
You have paid hoiiu, Shak., W. T., v. 8. 
To Sheet home, to haul the sheets of a sail so that the 
clues will be stretched apart as far as possible. To 
tumble home. See twmtw. 
home (horn), v. ; pret. and pp. homed, ppr. hom- 
ing. [< home, >i. or atlr."] I. intrans. To dwell; 
have a home; also (chiefly in the present par- 
ticiple), to go home instinctively, as a carrier- 
pigeon. See homing. 
The arrangements [to use pigeons as message-bearers 
In the yacht-races of September, 1885] were hasty, and the 
material homed at several centers, some of them miles 
away from the center of use. The Century, XXXII. 363. 
II. trans. To bring, carry, or send home : as, 
the homing of the harvest; to home a carrier- 
pigeon. 
home-born (h6m'b6rn), a. 1. Belonging to the 
place or country by birth ; native; not foreign. 
One law shall be to him that is homeoorn and unto the 
stranger that sojourneth among you. Ex. xii. 49. 
2. Originating at home; pertaining to one's 
home; domestic. 
Ann 
These creatures from home-born Intrinsic harm. 
Donne. 
Intimate delights, 
Fire-side enjoyments, homeoorn happiness. 
Cowper, Task, Iv. 140. 
home-bound (hom'bound), a. Same as home- 
ward-bound. 
For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, 
And home-bound Fancy runs her hark ashore. 
Sir H. Taylor, Ph. van Artevelde, I., L 6. 
home-bred (hom'bred), a. 1. Bred or brought 
up at home ; hence, uncultivated; artless; rude. 
Only to me two home-bred youths belong. Dryden. 
2. Of native or innate growth; domestic; nat- 
ural; inborn. 
But If of daunger, which hereby doth dwell, 
And homebredd evil ye desire to beare, 
Of a strauiige man I can you tidings tell. 
Spinier, F. Q., I. i. 81. 
God hath taken care to anticipate every man, to draw 
him early into his church, before other competitors, homr- 
bred lusts or vicious customs of the world, should be able 
to pretend to him. Hammond, Fundamentals. 
Envie shall sink to hell, craft and malice be confounded, 
whether it be homebred mischief or outlandish cunning. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
home-brew (hom'bro), . Beer that is brewed 
at home or for home consumption. [Rare.] 
Immense bumpers or vats of admittedly real Russian 
home-brew which are being now consumed in every civil- 
ised country. Fortnightly Ken., N. S., XLIII. 240. 
home-brewed (hom'brpd), a. Brewed at home 
or for home consumption: as, home-brewed ale. 
The sparkling beverage home-brewed from malt of my 
own making. Smollett, Humphrey Clinker. 
homecome (hom'kum), n. [< ME. homecome, 
homeome, hamcume, < AS. hdmcyme (= Icel. 
heimkoma, -kvdma; cf. G. heimkunft = Dan. 
hjemkomst = Sw. hemkomst), < ham, home, + 
cyme, coming: see come, .] A coming home; 
arrival at home. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
Feire fioures schal we flnde of foulen song here, 
& thurth cumfort may cacche swiche happ mai falle, 
To haue the better hele at goure hom-kome. 
William of Pale me (E. E. T. S.X 1. 807. 
home-coming (h6m'kum"ing), n. [< ME. hom- 
eomynge; (home + coming^] Return home or 
homeward. 
And zee schulle undirstonde, zif it lyke zou, that at myn 
Horn comynye I cam to Rome. 
Mandemlle, Travels, p. S14. 
Prepare 
A pathway meet for her home-coming soon. 
Lowell, Bon Voyage ! 
home-felt (hom'felt), a. Tell in one's own 
breast; inward; private: as, home-felt joys. 
But such a sacred and home-felt delight, 
Such sober certainty of waking bliss, 
I never heard till now. Milton, Comus, 1. 262. 
Happy next him who to these shades retires, 
Whom Nature charms, and whom the Muse inspires, 
"Whom humbler joys of home-felt quiet please. 
Pope, Windsor Forest, 1. 239. 
home-keeping (hom'ke'ping), a. Staying at 
home. 
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 
Shak., T. G. of V., L 1. 
homeless (hom'les), a. [ME. "homles (not 
found), < AS. hamledy (= Dan. hjemlos), home- 
2864 
less, < ham, home, + -leas, -less.] Destitute 
of a home. 
Was the merchant charged to bring 
The homeless birds a nest? 
Cowper, The Bird's Nest. 
homelike (hom'Hk), a. Having the qualities 
that constitute a home ; suggesting or resem- 
bling a home; familiar. 
Here the aspect was friendly, livable, almost homelike. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 567. 
homelikeness (hom'lik-nes), w. The character 
of being homelike. 
A delicacy, a brotherly considerateness, a homelikeness 
of character and manner. 
The Congregationalitl, March 3, 1887. 
homelily (hom'li-li), adv. [< homely + -%2.] 
In a homely manner; rudely; inelegantly. 
homeliness (hom'li-nes), n. 1. The state or 
quality of being homely, in any sense of that 
word. 
There's the rich beauty 
Which this poor homeliness It not endowed with ; 
There's difference enough. 
Fletcher and Rowley, Maid in the Mill, ii. 
The force of his argument Is not at all injured by the 
homeliness of his Illustrations. 
0. W. Holmes, Essays, p. 109. 
The prospect was not rich, but it had a frank homeliness 
which touched the young man's fancy. 
H. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 458. 
The intense realism, the admirable homeliness and truth 
of his [Hogarth'sJ pictures of English life, . . . raised them 
far above the level of the mere grotesque. 
Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., iv. 
2f. Household management. 
Grislldis thurgh hir wit 
Coude nl the feet [feat] of wyfly homlinesse. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, L 373. 
3f. Familiarity; intimacy. 
Overgret homlineste engendreth dispreising. 
Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. 
homelingt (hom'liug), n. and o. [< home + 
-ling 1 . Cf. comeling.] I. n. A person or thing 
belonging to a home or to a country. 
So that within a whyle they began to molest the home- 
lings (for so I find the word indigena to be Englished in 
an old book that I have, wherein advena is translated also 
a comeling). Holinshed. 
A word treated as a tunneling. Abp. Trench. 
II. a. Native. 
Under these lyeth a little strond or shore, the homeling 
inhabitants call it Achileos-dromon. 
Holland, tr. of Ammianus, p. 200. 
homely (hom'li), a. [< ME. homly, hoomly, 
homely, domestic, familiar, plain (= OFries. 
liemelik = D. heimelijk, secret, private, = OHG. 
heimilih, MHG. heimelich, G. heimlich, secret, = 
Icel. heimligr, worldly, = Sw. hemlig = Dan. 
hemmelig, private, secret); < home + -Iy l .~\ 1. 
Of or belonging to home or the household ; 
domestic. 
In this world nys worse pestilence 
Than hoomly too. al day in thy presence. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 550. 
"God speed," quoth he, " thou famous flower, 
Fair mistress of this homely bower." 
Patient (irissel (Child's Ballads, IV. 208). 
2f. Familiar; intimate. 
The enemies of a man are they that are homely with 
him. Wyclif, Mat. x. 36. 
For Protheus, that cowde hym chaunge 
In cilery shape, homely and straunge, 
Cowde nevere sich gile ne tresoune. 
Bom. of the Rose, 1. 6323. 
With all these men I was right homely, and communed 
with them long time and oft. 
Foxe, Martyrs, Wm. Thorpe. 
3. Of domestic character or quality; hence, 
simple ; plain ; rude ; coarse ; not fine or ele- 
gant: as, a homely garment; a homely house; 
homely fare. 
Than had I with yow homly suffisaunce, 
I am a man of litel sustlnaunce. 
Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, L 135. 
Homely playe it is, and a madde pastime, where men by 
the course of the game go together by the eares, and many 
times murdre one an other. 
Udall, tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 21S. 
A diction at once so rich and so homely as his [Emer- 
son's] I know not where to match in these days of writing 
by the page ; it is like homespun cloth-of-gold. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 377. 
4. Plain; without particular beauty of features, 
form, or color : as, a homely face. 
Of Dutch and French some few are comely, 
The French are light, the Dutch are homely. 
Howell, Letters, L v. 21. 
It is for homely features to keep home ; 
They had their name thence. 
Hilton, Comus, 1. 748. 
It is observed by some, that there Is none so homely but 
loves a looking-glass. South, Sermons. 
homer 
homelyt (hom'li), adv. [< ME. homely, liomJy, 
hoomly, etc.; < homely, a."] Familiarly; plain- 
ly; rudely; simply; coarsely. 
He rode but hoomly in a medled coote. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 328. 
Herkne opon Hyldegare hou homliche he telleth 
How her susteuaunce is synne ; & syker, as y trowe, 
Weren her confessiones. 
Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 703. 
Take the spices and drynk the wyne 
As homely as I did of thyne. 
-I/A'. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 55. (Halliwell.) 
A man well stricken in age, with a black sun-burned face, 
a long beard, and a cloak cast homely about his shoulders. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), Prol., p. 26. 
It Is a bashful child, homtty brought up. 
In a rude hostelry. B. Jonson, New Inn. 
home-made (hom'mad), a. Made at home ; of 
domestic manufacture. 
Madam in her high-laced ruff, 
Goody in her home-made stuff. 
Whittier, To my Old Schoolmaster. 
When he [Milton] makes our English search her coffers 
round, it is not for any home-made ornaments. 
Lowell, New Princeton Rev., 1. 154. 
homeoid. homoeoid (ho'mf-oid), n. [< Gr. 
u/ioiof, like, similar (see homoeo- and homo-), + 
eUof, form.] In math., an infinitely thin shell 
bounded by two similar surfaces similarly ori- 
entated. Thomson and Tait Thick homeoid, a 
thick shell bounded by two similar surfaces similarly ori- 
entated. 
homeoidal (ho-me-oi'dal), a. [< homeoid + 
-al.} Pertaining to or resembling a liomeoid. 
The bulk of a homcsoid is the excess of the bulk of the 
part where the thickness Is positive above that where the 
thickness is negative. The bulk of a homceoidal couple is 
essentially zero. 
Thomson and Tait, Nat. Phil., S 494 g, foot-note. 
Homeomeri, homeomeric, homeomorphic, 
etc. See Homceomeri, etc. 
homeopath, homoeopath (ho'me-o-path), n. 
[= F. homcroputhe = Sp. homeopata ; as home- 
opathy, without the termination.] Same as Ito- 
meopathist. 
homeopathic, homoeopathic (h6"me-o-path'- 
ik), a. [= F. homasopathique = Sp. homeo- 
pdtico = Pg. homeopathico = It. omeopatico, < 
NL. homa-opathicus, < homeeopathia, homeopa- 
thy: see homeopathy."} Relating or pertain- 
ing to homeopathy; according to the principles 
of homeopathy : as, homeopathic remedies ; ho- 
meopathic treatment. 
homeopathical, homoeopathical (ho^'me-o- 
path'i-kal), a. [< homeopathic + -al."] Same 
as homeopathic. 
hpmeopathically, homoeopathically (h6"m- 
o-path'i-kal-i), adv. In a homeopathic man- 
ner; by means of homeopathy. 
homeopathist, homceopathist (ho-me-op'a- 
thist), w. [< homeopathy + -ist.~\ One' who 'is 
versed in or practises homeopathy; one who 
believes in the homeopathic treatment of dis- 
eases. Also homeopath. 
homeopathy, homoeopathy (ho-me-op'a-thi), 
n. [= F. homceopathic = Sp. homeopatia '= Pg. 
homeopathia = It. omeopatia, < NL. homoeopath ia 
(taken in sense denned), < Gr. ofwtoirdtteia, lia- 
bility to like affections, sympathy, likeness in 
condition, < o/joumaftr/s, having like feelings or 
affections, sympathetic, < o/toiof, like, similar, 
+ jrdBof, feeling, suffering: see pathos.] The 
medical treatment of diseased conditions of the 
body by the administration of drugs which are 
capable of exciting in healthy persons symp- 
toms closely similar to those of the morbid con- 
dition treated. This system of medicine was founded 
by Dr. S. C. F. Hahnemann (1755-1843) at Leipsic. The 
fundamental doctrine of homeopathy is expressed in the 
Latinadage "Similiasimilibus curantur" (likes are cured 
by likes). In practice homeopathy is associated with the 
system of administering drugs in very small, often infini- 
tesimal, doses. 
homeoplastic, homoeoplastic (ho'mf-o-plas'- 
tik), a. [< Gr. bpoiof, like, + irl.aoTof, formed, 
< irMaoetv, form.] In pathol., resembling the 
tissue from or in which the thing to which the 
term is applied is formed: as, a homeoplastic 
tumor. 
homer 1 (ho'mer), . [< home + -er 1 ."] A pigeon 
trained to fly home from a distance ; a homing 
pigeon. 
Again, comparing this homer's skull with that of a com- 
mon pigeon of the same size, we found at least one fourth 
more brain-room in the homer, and the excess located 
more especially in the lower back portion. 
The Century, XXXII. 870. 
homer 2 (ho'mer), n. [< Icel. hameri, Norw. liiin- 
ierr, a kind of shark, lit. ' shark-mare,' < Icel. 
har, Norw. haa, a shark (> E. Aoe 2 ), 4- Icel. men; 
mod. inert, Norw. merr = E. mare 1 .'] The bask- 
ing-shark, Cetorhinus maximus. 
