<B>homely, </B>adjective, <B>-lier,</B> <B>-liest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not good-looking; ugly; plain. <BR> <I>Ex. Cinderella's sisters were very homely. Let time, that makes you homely, make you sage (Thomas Parnell).</I> (SYN) uncomely. <DD><B> 2. </B>suited to home life; simple; everyday. <BR> <I>Ex. homely pleasures, homely food. The excellent and homely type of house architecture that still prevails in Philadelphia (H. G. Wells).</I> (SYN) plain, unadorned, commonplace, unpolished, rough, rude. <DD><B> 3. </B>of plain manners; unsophisticated; unpretending. <BR> <I>Ex. a simple, homely man.</I> (SYN) simple, unpretentious. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) <DD><B> a. </B>familiar; intimate; at home (with). <DD><B> b. </B>friendly; kindly. </DL>
<A NAME="homemade">
<B>homemade</B> or <B>home-made, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> made at home; of domestic manufacture. <BR> <I>Ex. homemade bread.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="homemaker">
<B>homemaker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who manages a home and its affairs, especially a housewife. <BR> <I>Ex. The Government pays for ... home health aides and "homemakers" to do household chores (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="homemaking">
<B>homemaking</B> or <B>home-making, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the managing of a home and its affairs; work of a homemaker. </DL>
<A NAME="homeoffice">
<B>Home Office,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the British government department in charge of internal affairs. </DL>
<B>homeomorphism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> similarity in crystalline form between substances of unlike chemical composition. </DL>
<A NAME="homeomorphous">
<B>homeomorphous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> crystallizing in the same or a related form (used especially of substances not having an analogous chemical composition). </DL>
<A NAME="homeopath">
<B>homeopath, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who practices or advocates homeopathy. </DL>
<A NAME="homeopathic">
<B>homeopathic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or like homeopathy. <DD><B> 2. </B>practicing or advocating homeopathy. adv. <B>homeopathically.</B> </DL>
<B>homeopathy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the method of treating diseases by very small doses of drugs, which in large doses would produce in a healthy person symptoms similar to those of the disease. </DL>
<A NAME="homeostasis">
<B>homeostasis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physiology.) the tendency of an organism to maintain internal equilibrium, as of temperature and fluid content, by the regulation of its bodily processes. </DL>
<A NAME="homeostatic">
<B>homeostatic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with homeostasis. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of an organism) maintaining internal equilibrium, as of temperature and fluid content, by the regulation of bodily processes. <DD><B> 3. </B>like homeostasis. adv. <B>homeostatically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="homeotherm">
<B>homeotherm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Physiology.) an organism that maintains a constant internal temperature. <BR> <I>Ex. Man, like other mammals, is a homeotherm--his temperature varying little with alterations of the temperature of his surroundings (Eric Neil).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>homoiotherm.</B> </DL>
<B>homeowner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who owns his own home. </DL>
<A NAME="homepermanent">
<B>home permanent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a permanent wave that a woman can put in her hair at home. <DD><B> 2. </B>the equipment necessary to give oneself a permanent wave at home. </DL>
<A NAME="homeplace">
<B>homeplace, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the place where a person or family lives, or had lived originally. </DL>
<A NAME="homeplate">
<B>home plate,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the block or slab beside which a player stands to bat the ball in baseball, and to which he must return, after getting on base, in order to score; home base. </DL>
<A NAME="homeport">
<B>homeport, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the port from which a ship originally sets out and to which it usually returns. </DL>
<B>homer</B> (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=home run.</B> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to hit a home run. </DL>
<A NAME="homer">
<B>homer</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a Hebrew unit of dry measure, equal to 10 ephahs; kor. <DD><B> 2. </B>a Hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to 10 baths; kor. </DL>
<A NAME="homerange">
<B>home range,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a definite area over which an animal roams. </DL>
<A NAME="homeric">
<B>Homeric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>by the ancient Greek poet Homer. The <I>Iliad</I> and the <I>Odyssey</I> are Homeric poems. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with Homer, his style, or his poems. <DD><B> 3. </B>in the style of Homer; having some characteristics of Homer's poems. <DD><B> 4. </B>of or having to do with the age in Greek life from about 1200 B.C. to about 800 B.C. adv. <B>Homerically.</B> </DL>
<B>homeroom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a classroom where members of a class meet, especially to answer roll call and hear announcements. <DD><B> 2. </B>the period during which this class meets. </DL>
<A NAME="homerule">
<B>home rule,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> management of the affairs of a country, district, or city by its own people; local self-government. </DL>
<A NAME="homerun">
<B>home run,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a hit in baseball which allows the batter to round the bases without a stop and reach home plate to score a run, without aid from fielding errors. </DL>
<A NAME="homeschooling">
<B>homeschooling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the teaching of children by their parents, especially as an alternative to sending them to school. noun <B>homeschooler.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="homesecretary">
<B>Home Secretary,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the head of the Home Office. </DL>
<A NAME="homeshopping">
<B>home shopping,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the act of looking at or buying goods displayed on television and then purchasing by telephone. <BR> <I>Ex. Home shopping ... is just the first of a vast array of things people will be able to do over the TV of the future (Time).</I> noun <B>home-shopper.</B> adj. <B>home-shopping.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="homesick">
<B>homesick, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> overcome by sadness because home is far away; ill with longing for home. <BR> <I>Ex. I long to see my master's face again, For I turn homesick (Yeats).</I> noun <B>homesickness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="homesite">
<B>homesite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a plot of ground where a house can be built. </DL>
<A NAME="homespun">
<B>homespun, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>spun or made at home. <BR> <I>Ex. homespun yarn.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>made of homespun cloth. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) not polished; plain; simple. <BR> <I>Ex. homespun manners.</I> (SYN) unsophisticated, unvarnished, homely, unpolished, rude. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>cloth made of yarn spun at home. <DD><B> 2. </B>a coarse, loosely woven cloth similar to it. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who wears homespun; a rustic. </DL>
<A NAME="homestead">
<B>homestead, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a house with its land and other buildings; farm with its buildings. <BR> <I>Ex. There are many old homesteads in New England.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) the public land granted to a settler under certain conditions by the United States government. <DD><B> 3. </B>the place of one's dwelling or home. <BR> <I>Ex. To make the West ... The homestead of the free (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S.) a lot and the buildings on it, which the owner and his family occupy as a home and which is legally exempted from seizure or forced sale for debt. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to take up and occupy as a homestead. <BR> <I>Ex. My grandfather homesteaded 160 acres of land.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> (U.S.) to settle on a homestead. </DL>
<A NAME="homesteader">
<B>homesteader, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who has a homestead. <DD><B> 2. </B>a settler granted a homestead by the United States government. </DL>
<A NAME="homesteadlaw">
<B>homestead law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a law protecting a homestead from seizure or forced sale for debt. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several laws passed by Congress, especially the Homestead Act of 1862, granting each settler 160 acres of public land under certain specified conditions. </DL>
<A NAME="homestretch">
<B>home stretch,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the straight part of a race track between the last turn and the finish line. <DD><B> 2. </B>the last part of a race. <DD><B> 3. </B>the last part of anything. </DL>
<A NAME="homestudy">
<B>home-study, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with a correspondence school or a course of study offered by one. </DL>
<A NAME="hometable">
<B>home table,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Backgammon.) the half of the inner table nearest to the player. </DL>
<A NAME="hometown">
<B>hometown, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the town in which one's home is, or was originally. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a hometown. <BR> <I>Ex. hometown pressures on Congress for tariff protection (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="homeunit">
<B>home unit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Australian.) an apartment. </DL>
<A NAME="homeward">
<B>homeward, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv. </I> toward home. <BR> <I>Ex. homeward bound.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> being in the direction of home. <BR> <I>Ex. The ship is on a homeward course.</I> </DL>
