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H O M 
In the'original grants of lands and tenements by way of 
fee, the lord did not only oblige his tenants to certain fcr- 
vices, but alfo took a fubmiilion with promife and oath, 
to be true to him as their lord and benefactor; and this 
fubmiilion, which is the moil: honourable, being from a 
freehold tenant, is called homage. Stat. 17 Edw. II. ft. 2. 
The lord of the fee for which homage is due, takes homage 
of every tenant, as he comes to the land or fee : but wo¬ 
men perform not homage but by their hufbands, as homage 
efpecially relates to fervice in war; and a corporation can¬ 
not do homage, which is perfonal, and they cannot appear 
but by attorney; all'o a bifliop or religious man may not 
do homage, only fealty; but the archbifliop of Canter¬ 
bury does homage on his knees to the king at his coro¬ 
nation. 
When fovereign princes did homage to each other for 
lands held under their refpeftive fovereignties, a diltinction 
was always made between Jimple homage, which was only 
an acknowledgment of tenure, and liege homage, which 
included fealty, and the fervices confequent upon it. Thus 
when Edward III. in 132.9, did homage to Philip VI. of 
France, for his ducal dominions on that continent, it was 
for a time warmly difputed of what fpecies the homage 
was to be, whether liege or Jimple homage. Edward choie 
only to do funple homage. 1 Comm. 367. c. 10. 
IIOM'AGE JURY, f A jury in a court-baron, con¬ 
fiding of tenants that do homage to the lord of the fee; 
and thele by the feudifts are called pares curia: they en¬ 
quire and make preientment of defaults and deaths of te¬ 
nants, admittances, and lurrenders, in the lord’s court, &c. 
See the article Court-Baron, vol. v. p.298. 
HOM'AGEABLE, adj. Liable to do homage; belong¬ 
ing tip homage. Scott. 
HOM'AGER, J. [hommager , Fr.] One who holds by 
homage of fome fuperior lord : 
Thou blufheft, Antony ; and that blood of thine 
Is Csefar’s homager. Shakefpeare. 
HOMA'LIUM, f. [fo named by Jacquin from o/aaWj;, 
Gr. equality, on account of the proportion oblerved in 
the ftamens.] In botany, a genus of the clafs polyandria, 
order trigynia, natural order of rofaceas, Juff. The gene¬ 
ric charaders are—Calyx: pepanthium one-leafed, fix or 
feven-cleft; clefts ovate-lanceolate, fharp, fpreading very 
much. Corolla: petals fix or feven, ovate, flat, a little 
longer than the calyx, fpreading very much; nedary, 
glands fix or feven, flat, alternate with the petals. Sta¬ 
mina : filaments eighteen to twenty-eight, fubulate, up¬ 
right, the length of the corolla, of which three or four are 
inferted into the receptacle among the glands before the 
bale of the petals ; antherae roundifh, fmall. Piftillum : 
germ roundiih, villofe, immerfed in the bafe of the calyx; 
ftyles three, upright; ftigmas Ample. Pericarpium : cap- 
fule woody, ovate, one-celied. Seeds: very many, and 
v.ery fmall.— EJfential CharaEler. Calyx fix or i’even-parted; 
corolla fix or feven petalled ; ftamens twenty-one, in three 
bodies; pericarpium one-celled, many-feeded. 
Species. 1. Homalium racemofum, or cluftered homa¬ 
lium: leaves ferrate; racemes axillary and terminating; 
flowers peduncled. This is a lofty branching tree, with 
the habit and leaves of the elm. Flowers racemed, flat. 
Stamens fometimes eighteen, fo that there are three before 
each petal. Native of Martinico and Jamaica. 
a. Homalium racoubea, or racoubea homalium: leaves 
toothed, coriaceous; racemes terminating; flowers fub- 
fefiile. This is a ihrub, with a trunk of about three or 
four feet high, and four or five inches in diameter; the 
bark is whitifh ; the branches tortuous and fpreading, and 
feven or eight feet in length ; the leaves alternate, green, 
lhiooth, oval, and toothed, with rather pointed tips ; the 
footftalks are fliort, and have each two fmall caducous 
ftipules at their bafe. The flowers are borne on fpikes 
fpringing from the bofoms of the upper leaves: they are 
leflile, and of a yebow colour, Native of Guiana. 
HOMALOCEN'CHRUS,y.' in botany. See Leersia. 
H O M 
HO'MAN, or O'man, a town of Africa, in the king¬ 
dom of Fez, and province of Habat, between Alcagar- 
quiber and Arzilla. 
HOM'BERG, a town of Germany, in Franconia, and 
bifhopric of Wurzburg: three miles north of Carolftadt, 
and fixteen north-north-weft of Wurzburg. 
HOM'BERG, or PIom'burg, a town of Germany, in 
Weftphalia, and duchy of Berg: twenty-four miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft of Cologne. 
HOM'BERG, a town of Germany, on the Upper Rhine, 
and principality of Hefl'e Caflel. It contains an iron-forge 
and aglai's-manufadory: twenty miles fouth of Caflel, and 
eleven iouth-fouth-eaft of Fritzlar. Lat. 50. 48. N. Ion. 
27. E. Ferro. 
HOM'BERG VOR DER HOHE, a town of Germany, 
on the Upper Rhine, which gives title to a branch of the 
lioufe of Hefl’e, called Helie Homberg; granted, with its 
territory, in 1622, by Louis V. landgrave of Hefl'e Darm- 
ftadt, in lieu of a penfion of 20,000 dollars: feven miles 
north of Frankfort on the Maine, and leventeen foutli of 
Wetziar. Lat. 50. 9. N. Ion. 26. 22. E. Ferro. 
HOM'BERG (William), an eminent phyfician and che- 
mift, born at Batavia, where his father, in 1652, held an 
appointment of conliderable truft under the Dutch Eaft- 
India company. When his father quitted India, he re¬ 
turned with him to Amfterdam; and was foon after fent - 
to Itudy the law at Jena, and at Leipfic; and in 1674, he 7 
was admitted to the bar at Magdeburg; but, though he 
attended to bufinel’s, objeds of natural hiitory foon began 
to attr .cl his attention, and to excite his curiofity. Otto 
Guericke, burgotnafter of Magdeburg, being celebrated on 
account of his experiments, and the invention of the air- 
pump, Homberg went under him, to be inftruded in ex¬ 
perimental philofophy. After this he refolved to travel, 
and went firft to Italy. He ftaid a year at Padua, where 
he applied to medicine, and particularly to anatomy and 
botany. At Bologna he made experiments on the ftone 
which takes its name from that city, ana difcovered the 
method of making it luminous, which had been ahnoft 
loft. At Rome he formed an acquaintance with Marc 
Antony Cadio, an able mathematician, aftronorrier, and 
mechanift, who was exceedingly dexterous in making large 
lenles. Homberg applied to the fame art, and all’o to 
painting, fculpture, and mufic, in all of which he made a 
confiderable progrefs. From Italy he went to France, 
where he foon acquired the efteem ot the learned; and he 
then proceeded to England, where he was. aflociated for 
fome time with the celebrated Mr. Boyle. On bis return r 
to Holland, he improved himfelf in anatomy under Ds 
Graaf; after which he rejoined his family, who at that 
time refided at Quidlinburg, and foon after took the de¬ 
gree of M.D. at Wittemberg. His relations urged hi-tn to 
fettle, and to pur’fue the pradice of the art he had Itudied ; 
but his mind was ftill bent on travel; and, being defirous 
of ftudying mineralogy, he proceeded to examine the 
mines of Saxony, Bohemia, Hungary, and Sweden. His 
Swedilh majefty having ereded a chemical laboratory at 
Stockholm, Homberg laboured in it with M. Hierna, firft 
phyfician to the king, and had the lvappinefs of contri¬ 
buting to the fuccefs of this new eftablilhment. His father 
ftill wiflied him to return, and to fettle in his own coun¬ 
try; but the love of fcience carried him to the extremity 
of the north, to Holland, and from Holland to France, 
where he vifited thole provinces whi h he had not feen 
during his firft tour. He finally fettled in Paris, where 
he foon acquired a 'dillinguiihed rank among the molt 
eminent philofophers. The bbe Bignon, being diredor 
of the academy offciences in 1691, got Homberg admitted 
a member, and gave him the ufe of the laboratory of the 
academy, where he had an opportunity of pudding his 
refearches unmoiefted. In 1702, the duke of Orleans; 
wilhing to make himfelf acquainted with chemiftry and 
experimental philofophy, took Homberg into his lervice, - 
and aflianed to him a penfion, with a laboratory fitted up 
in the complete!!: manner. In 1704, the duke made him 
