Chapter 108

Hol"low (?), v. i. To shout; to hollo.

Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.

Fuller.

Hol"low, v. t. To urge or call by shouting.

He has hollowed the hounds.

Sir W. Scott.

Hol"low-heart`ed (?), a. Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.

Hol"low-horned` (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

Hol"low*ly, adv. Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.

Hol"low*ness, n. 1. State of being hollow. Bacon.

2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South.

Hol"ly (?), adv. Wholly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hol"ly (hl"l), n. [OE holi, holin, AS. holen, holegn; akin to D. & G. hulst, OHG. huls hulis, W. celyn, Armor. kelen, Gael. cuilionn, Ir. cuileann. Cf. 1st Holm, Hulver.] 1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aquifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.

The holly is much used to adorn churches and houses, at Christmas time, and hence is associated with scenes of good will and rejoicing. It is an evergreen tree, and has a finegrained, heavy, white wood. Its bark is used as a febrifuge, and the berries are violently purgative and emetic. The American holly is the Ilex opaca, and is found along the coast of the United States, from Maine southward. Gray.

2. (Bot.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm.

Holly-leaved oak (Bot.), the black scrub oak. See Scrub oak. -- Holly rose (Bot.), a West Indian shrub, with showy, yellow flowers (Turnera ulmifolia). -- Sea holly (Bot.), a species of Eryngium. See Eryngium.

Hol"ly*hock (?), n. [OE. holihoc; holi holy + hoc mallow, AS. hoc; cf. W. hocys mallows, hocys bendigaid hollyhock, lit., blessed mallow. Prob. so named because brought from the Holy Land. See Holy.] (Bot.) A species of AlthÊa (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.

Holm (?), n. [OE., prob. from AS. holen holly; as the holly is also called holm. See Holly.] (Bot.) A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.

Holm (?), n. [AS. holm, usually meaning, sea, water; akin to Icel. hlmr, holmr, an island, Dan. holm, Sw. holme, G. holm, and prob. to E. hill. Cf. Hill.]

1. An islet in a river. J. Brand.

2. Low, flat land. Wordsworth.

The soft wind blowing over meadowy holms.

Tennyson.

Holm thrush (Zoˆl.), the missel thrush.

||Hol"mi*a (?), n. [NL.] (Chem.) An oxide of holmium.

||Hol"mi*um (?), n. [NL., of uncertain origin.] (Chem.) A rare element ||said to be contained in gadolinite. -- Hol"mic (#), a.

||Hol"mos (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.&?;.] (Greek & Etrus. Antiq.) A name ||given to a vase having a rounded body; esp.: (a) A closed vessel of ||nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal. Fairholt. (b) A ||drinking cup having a foot and stem.

Hol"o- (?). A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.

Hol"o*blast (?), n. [Holo + - blast.] (Biol.) an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.

Hol`o*blas"tic (?), a. (Biol.) Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

Hol"o*caust (?), n. [L. holocaustum, Gr. &?;, neut. of &?;, &?;, burnt whole; "o'los whole + kaysto`s burnt, fr. kai`ein to burn (cf. Caustic): cf. F. holocauste.] 1. A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton.

2. Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]

||Hol`o*ceph"a*li (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. "o`los whole + kefalh` ||head.] (Zoˆl.) An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among ||living species, only the chimÊras; -- called also Holocephala. See ||ChimÊra; also Illustration in Appendix.

Hol`o*cryp"tic (?), a. [Holo- + Gr. kry`ptein to conceal.] Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.

Holocryptic cipher, a cipher so constructed as to afford no clew to its meaning to one ignorant of the key.

Hol`o*crys"tal*line (?), a. [Holo + crystalline.] (Min.) Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.

Hol"o*graph (?), n. [L. holographus entirely autograph, Gr. "olo`grafos; "o`los whole + gra`fein to write: cf. F. holographe, olographe.] A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.

Hol`o*graph"ic (?), a. Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.

Hol`o*he"dral (?), a. [Holo- + Gr. &?; seat, base, fr. &?; to sit.] (Crystallog.) Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.

Hol`o*hem`i*he"dral (?), a. [Holo- + hemihedral.] (Crystallog.) Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes. Dana.

||Hol`o*me*tab"o*la (?), n. pl. [NL. See Holo-, and Metabola.] (Zoˆl.) ||Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

Hol`o*met`a*bol"ic (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having a complete metamorphosis; -- said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees.

Ho*lom"e*ter (?), n. [Holo + -meter: cf. F. holometre.] An instrument for making all kinds of angular measurements.

Hol`o*phan"er*ous (?), a. [Holo + Gr. &?; visible, fr. &?; to appear.] (Zoˆl.) Same as Holometabolic.

Hol`o*pho"tal (?), a. [Holo + Gr. &?;, &?;, light.] (Opt.) Causing no loss of light; -- applied to reflectors which throw back the rays of light without perceptible loss.

Hol"o*phote (?), n. A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

Hol`o*phras"tic (?), a. [Holo + Gr. &?; to speak: cf. F. holophrastique.] Expressing a phrase or sentence in a single word, -- as is the case in the aboriginal languages of America.

Hol`o*phyt"ic (?), a. [Holo + Gr.&?; a plant.] Wholly or distinctively vegetable.

Holophytic nutrition (&?;), that form of nutrition, characteristic of vegetable organisms, in which carbonic acid, ammonia, and nitrates are absorbed as food, in distinction from the animal mode of nutrition, by the ingestion of albuminous matter.

Hol`o*rhi"nal (?), a. [Holo + Gr.&?;, nose.] (Anat.) Having the nasal bones contiguous.

Hol`o*sid"er*ite (?), n. [Holo + siderite.] (Min.) Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

Ho*los"te*an (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the Holostei.

||Ho*los"te*i (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o`los whole + &?; a bone.] ||(Zoˆl.) An extensive division of ganoids, including the gar pike, ||bowfin, etc.; the bony ganoids. See Illustration in Appendix.

Hol`o*ster"ic (?), a. [Holo + Gr.stereo`s solid.] Wholly solid; -- said of a barometer constructed of solid materials to show the variations of atmospheric pressure without the use of liquids, as the aneroid.

||Hol`o*stom"a*ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o`los whole + sto`ma, ||-atos, mouth.] (Zoˆl.) An artificial division of gastropods, ||including those that have an entire aperture.

Ho*los"to*mate (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Same as Holostomatous.

Hol`o*stom"a*tous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells.

Hol"o*stome (?), n. [Holo + Gr. sto`ma mouth.] (Zoˆl.) One of the Holostomata.

||Ho*los"tra*ca (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o`los whole + &?; shell of a ||testacean.] (Zoˆl.) A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including ||those that are entirely covered by a bivalve shell.

Hol"o*thure (?), n. [L. holothuria, pl., a sort of water polyp, Gr. &?;.] (Zoˆl.) A holothurian.

Hol`o*thu"ri*an (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Belonging to the Holothurioidea. -- n. One of the Holothurioidea.

Some of the species of Holothurians are called sea cucumbers, sea slugs, trepang, and bÍche de mËr. Many are used as food, esp. by the Chinese. See Trepang.

||Hol`o*thu`ri*oi"de*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Holothure, and -oid.] ||(Zoˆl.) One of the classes of echinoderms. They have a more or less ||elongated body, often flattened beneath, and a circle of tentacles, ||which are usually much branched, surrounding the mouth; the skin is ||more or less flexible, and usually contains calcareous plates of ||various characteristic forms, sometimes becoming large and scalelike. ||Most of the species have five bands (ambulacra) of sucker-bearing ||feet along the sides; in others these are lacking. In one group ||(Pneumonophora) two branching internal gills are developed; in ||another (Apneumona) these are wanting. Called also Holothurida, ||Holothuridea, and Holothuroidea.

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||||Ho*lot"ri*cha (h*lt"r*k), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. "o`los whole + ||||qri`x, tricho`s, a hair.] (Zoˆl.) A group of ciliated Infusoria, ||||having cilia all over the body.

Hol"our (?), n. [OF. holier.] A whoremonger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

{ Holp (?), Hol"pen (?), } imp. & p. p. of Help. [Obs.] Shak.

Hol"som (?), a. Wholesome. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hol"ster (?), n. [D. holster; skin to AS. heolstor den, cave, fr. helan to conceal, and to Icel. hulstr case, Goth. hulistr covering, veil, huljan to cover. &radic;17. See Hele to cover, Hell, and cf. Housing, Houss.] A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle.

Hol"stered (?), a. Bearing holsters. Byron.

Holt (?), 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contr. from holdeth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Holt, n. [AS. holt; akin to LG. holt, D. hout, G. holz. Icel. holt; cf Gael. & Ir. coill wood, Gr. &?; branch, shoot.] 1. A piece of woodland; especially, a woody hill. "Every holt and heath." Chaucer.

She sent her voice though all the holt Before her, and the park.

Tennyson.

2. A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place. " The fox has gone to holt." C. Kingsley.

Hol"we (?), a. Hollow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Ho"ly (?), a. [Compar. Holier (?); superl. Holiest.] [OE. holi, hali, AS. hlig, fr. hÊl health, salvation, happiness, fr. hl whole, well; akin to OS. h&?;lag, D. & G. heilig, OHG. heilac, Dan. hellig, Sw. helig, Icel. heilagr. See Whole, and cf. Halibut, Halidom, Hallow, Hollyhock.] 1. Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood. "Holy rites and solemn feasts." Milton.

2. Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.

Now through her round of holy thought The Church our annual steps has brought.

Keble.

Holy Alliance (Hist.), a league ostensibly for conserving religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia, Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe, except the pope and the king of England. -- Holy bark. See Cascara sagrada. -- Holy Communion. See Eucharist. -- Holy family (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ, his parents, and others of his family are represented. - - Holy Father, a title of the pope. -- Holy Ghost (Theol.),the third person of the Trinity; the Comforter; the Paraclete. -- Holy Grail. See Grail. -- Holy grass (Bot.), a sweet-scented grass (Hierochloa borealis and H. alpina). In the north of Europe it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints' days; whence the name. It is common in the northern and western parts of the United States. Called also vanilla, or Seneca, grass. -- Holy Innocents' day, Childermas day. -- Holy Land, Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity. -- Holy office, the Inquisition. -- Holy of holies (Script.), the innermost apartment of the Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and where no person entered, except the high priest once a year. -- Holy One. (a) The Supreme Being; -- so called by way of emphasis. " The Holy One of Israel." Is. xliii. 14. (b) One separated to the service of God. -- Holy orders. See Order. -- Holy rood, the cross or crucifix, particularly one placed, in churches. over the entrance to the chancel. -- Holy rope, a plant, the hemp agrimony. -- Holy Saturday (Eccl.), the Saturday immediately preceding the festival of Easter; the vigil of Easter. -- Holy Spirit, same as Holy Ghost (above). -- Holy Spirit plant. See Dove plant. -- Holy thistle (Bot.), the blessed thistle. See under Thistle. -- Holy Thursday. (Eccl.) (a) (Episcopal Ch.) Ascension day. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Thursday in Holy Week; Maundy Thursday. -- Holy war, a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of the holy places. -- Holy water (Gr. & R. C. Churches), water which has been blessed by the priest for sacred purposes. -- Holy-water stoup, the stone stoup or font placed near the entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water. -- Holy Week (Eccl.), the week before Easter, in which the passion of our Savior is commemorated. -- Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ." Wordsworth.

Ho"ly cross" (?; 115). The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion.

Congregation of the Holy Cross (R. C. Ch.), a community of lay brothers and priests, in France and the United States, engaged chiefly in teaching and manual Labor. Originally called Brethren of St. Joseph. The Sisters of the Holy Cross engage in similar work. Addis & Arnold. -- Holy-cross day, the fourteenth of September, observed as a church festival, in memory of the exaltation of our Savior's cross.

Ho"ly*day` (?), n. 1. A religious festival.

2. A secular festival; a holiday.

Holiday is the preferable and prevailing spelling in the second sense. The spelling holy day or holyday in often used in the first sense.

Ho"ly*stone` (?), n. (Naut.) A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships. Totten.

Ho"ly*stone`, v. t. (Naut.) To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.

Hom"a*canth (?), a. [Homo + Gr. &?; a spine.] (Zoˆl.) Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes.

Hom"age (?), n. [OF. homage, homenage, F. hommage, LL. hominaticum, homenaticum, from L. homo a man, LL. also, a client, servant, vassal; akin to L. humus earth, Gr.&?; on the ground, and E. groom in bridegroom. Cf. Bridegroom, Human.] 1. (Feud. Law) A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.

2. Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.

All things in heaven and earth do her [Law] homage.

Hooker.

I sought no homage from the race that write.

Pope.

3. Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection. Chaucer.

Syn. -- Fealty; submission; reverence; honor; respect. -- Homage, Fealty. Homage was originally the act of a feudal tenant by which he declared himself, on his knees, to be the hommage or bondman of the lord; hence the term is used to denote reverential submission or respect. Fealty was originally the fidelity of such a tenant to his lord, and hence the term denotes a faithful and solemn adherence to the obligations we owe to superior power or authority. We pay our homage to men of preÎminent usefulness and virtue, and profess our fealty to the principles by which they have been guided.

Go, go with homage yon proud victors meet ! Go, lie like dogs beneath your masters' feet !

Dryden.

Man, disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven.

Milton.

Hom"age, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Homaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Homaging.] [Cf. OF. hommager.] 1. To pay reverence to by external action. [R.]

2. To cause to pay homage. [Obs.] Cowley.

Hom"age*a*ble (?), a. [Cf. OF. hommageable.] Subject to homage. Howell.

Hom"a*ger (?), n. [From Homage: cf. F. hommager.] One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal. Bacon.

Hom`a*lo*graph"ic (?), a. Same as Homolographic.

{ Hom"a*loid (hm"*loid), Hom`a*loid"al (-loid"al), } a. [Gr. "omalo`s even + -oid.] (Geom.) Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.

||Hom"a*rus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. "omarh`s well adjusted.] (Zoˆl.) A ||genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters. -- ||Hom"a*roid (#), a.

Ho*mat"ro*pine (?), n. [Homo- + atropine.] (Med.) An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.

Hom`ax*o"ni*al (?), a. [Homo- + Gr. &?; an axle, axis.] (Biol.) Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology.

Home (hm), n. (Zoˆl.) See Homelyn.

Home (110), [OE. hom, ham, AS. hm; akin to OS. hm, D. & G. heim, Sw. hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. kÎmas, and perh. to Gr. kw`mh village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf. Skr.kshma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. &radic;20, 220.] 1. One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.

The disciples went away again to their own home.

John xx. 10.

Home is the sacred refuge of our life.

Dryden.

Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like home.

Payne.

2. One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt. "Our old home [England]." Hawthorne.

3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.

He entered in his house -- his home no more, For without hearts there is no home.

Byron.

4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.

Tennyson.

Flandria, by plenty made the home of war.

Prior.

5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.

Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.

Eccl. xii. 5.

6. (Baseball) The home base; he started for home.

At home.(a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers. -- Home department, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it. -- To feel at home, to be at one's ease. -- To make one's self at home, to conduct one's self with as much freedom as if at home.

Syn. -- Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.

Home (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.

Home base (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands and which is the last goal in making a run. -- Home farm, grounds, etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner. -- Home lot, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. [U. S.] -- Home rule, rule or government of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of Parliament. -- Home ruler, one who favors or advocates home rule. -- Home run (Baseball), a complete circuit of the bases made before the batted ball is returned to the home base. -- Home stretch (Sport.), that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post. -- Home thrust, a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack.

Home, adv. 1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.

2. Close; closely.

How home the charge reaches us, has been made out.

South.

They come home to men's business and bosoms.

Bacon.

3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.

Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home.

Shak.

Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home- brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.

To bring home. See under Bring. -- To come home.(a) To touch or affect personally. See under Come. (b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an anchor. -- To haul home the sheets of a sail (Naut.), to haul the clews close to the sheave hole. Totten.

Home"born` (hm"bÙrn`), a. 1. Native; indigenous; not foreign. Donne. Pope.

2. Of or pertaining to the home or family.

Fireside enjoyments, homeborn happiness.

Cowper.

Home"-bound` (?), a. Kept at home.

Home"-bred` (?), a. 1. Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton.

Benignity and home-bred sense.

Wordsworth.

2. Not polished; rude; uncultivated.

Only to me home-bred youths belong.

Dryden.

Home"-com`ing (?), n. Return home.

Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge.

Chaucer.

Home"-driv`en (?), a. Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.

Home"-dwell`ing (?), a. Keeping at home.

Home"-felt` (-flt`), a. Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. "Home- felt quiet." Pope.

Home"field` (-fld`), n. A field adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.

Home"-keep`ing (-kp`ng), a. Staying at home; not gadding.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Shak.

Home"-keep`ing, n. A staying at home.

Home"less, a. [AS. hmleas.] Destitute of a home.

-- Home"less*ness, n.

Home"like` (?), a. Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

Home"li*ly (?), adv. Plainly; inelegantly. [R.]

Home"li*ness, n. [From Homely.] 1. Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] "Wifely homeliness." Chaucer.

2. Familiarity; intimacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.

4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison.

Home"ling (?), n. A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench.

Home"ly, a. [Compar. Homelier (?); superl. Homeliest.] [From Home, n.] 1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. [Archaic]

With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft.

Foxe.

Their homely joys, and destiny obscure.

Gray.

2. Plain; unpretending; rude in appearance; unpolished; as, a homely garment; a homely house; homely fare; homely manners.

Now Strephon daily entertains His Chloe in the homeliest strains.

Pope.

3. Of plain or coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome.

None so homely but loves a looking- glass.

South.

Home"ly, adv. Plainly; rudely; coarsely; as, homely dressed. [R.] Spenser.

Home"lyn (?), n. [Scot. hommelin.] (Zoˆl) The European sand ray (Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.

Home"made` (?), a. Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country. Locke.

Ho"me*o*path (?), n. [Cf. F. homÈopathe.] A practitioner of homeopathy. [Written also homúopath.]

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