<B>homework, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>work done at home. <DD><B> 2. </B>a lesson to be studied or prepared outside the classroom. <BR><I>expr. <B>do one's homework,</B> </I>(Informal.) to study a subject or situation; be well versed in something. <BR> <I>Ex. I have taken the trouble to do my homework on him. I know more about him than he thinks (Maxwell Catto).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="homey">
<B>homey, </B>adjective, <B>homier,</B> <B>homiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> like home; cozy and comfortable; homelike. <BR> <I>Ex. Homey, fireside qualities that endear him to his family and friends (Saturday Review).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>homy.</B> </DL>
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<A NAME="homeyness">
<B>homeyness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> homey quality or condition. Also, <B>hominess.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="homicidal">
<B>homicidal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with homicide. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=murderous.</B> adv. <B>homicidally.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="homicide">
<B>homicide</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a killing of one human being by another. Intentional homicide is murder. </DL>
<A NAME="homicide">
<B>homicide</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who kills another human being. </DL>
<A NAME="homiletic">
<B>homiletic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with sermons or the art of preaching. <DD><B> 2. </B>like or characteristic of a homily. <DD><I>noun </I> a sermon; homily. <BR> <I>Ex. The Cardinal's letter is an unadorned homiletic (William F. Buckley, Jr.).</I> adv. <B>homiletically.</B> </DL>
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<B>homiletics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art of composing and preaching sermons. </DL>
<A NAME="homilist">
<B>homilist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who writes or delivers homilies. </DL>
<A NAME="homily">
<B>homily, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a sermon, usually on some part of the Bible. <DD><B> 2. </B>a serious moral talk or writing that warns, urges, or advises, especially one that is tedious. </DL>
<A NAME="homines">
<B>homines, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>homo</B> (1). </DL>
<A NAME="hominess">
<B>hominess, </B>noun. <B>=homeyness.</B></DL>
<A NAME="homing">
<B>homing, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the action of a missile or torpedo which directs itself to or toward a target in response to signals or radiation emanating from or reflected by the target. <DD><B> 2. </B>the system which receives the signals or radiation and directs the course of the missile or torpedo. <DD><I>adj. </I> returning home. </DL>
<A NAME="homingpigeon">
<B>homing pigeon,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a breed of pigeons trained to fly home from great distances and used in racing or to carry messages; carrier pigeon. </DL>
<A NAME="hominid">
<B>hominid, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> resembling or having to do with any one of a family of primates that includes man. Man is the only hominid extant. <DD><I>noun </I> a hominid animal. <BR> <I>Ex. The orangs ... disported themselves with that mixture of economy, play and pleasure, which should be the birthright of all hominids (The Observer).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hominization">
<B>hominization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of making manlike in character or nature. <BR> <I>Ex. Dehumanization of the living worker was complemented, paradoxically, by the progressive hominization of the machine--hominization in the sense of giving the automation some of the mechanical equivalents of lifelike motion and purpose (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hominize">
<B>hominize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-nized,</B> <B>-nizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make manlike. <BR> <I>Ex. hominized primates.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="hominoid">
<B>hominoid, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of the form of or resembling man. <DD><I>noun </I> a hominoid animal. </DL>
<A NAME="hominy">
<B>hominy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> hulled corn, often crushed or coarsely ground, or soaked whole in a weak solution of lye. Hominy is eaten boiled. </DL>
<B>homme, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the French word for "man," used in English in various French compounds, as in the entries below. </DL>
<A NAME="hommedaffaires">
<B>homme d'affaires,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a businessman; man of affairs. </DL>
<A NAME="hommedeconfiance">
<B>homme de confiance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a man of trust; a right-hand man. </DL>
<A NAME="hommedesprit">
<B>homme d'esprit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a man of wit or spirit. </DL>
<A NAME="hommedumonde">
<B>homme du monde,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a man of the world. </DL>
<A NAME="homo">
<B>homo</B> (1), noun, pl. <B>homines.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Latin word for "man," used in various Latin compounds to describe some essential characteristic or quality, as in <I>homo ludens</I> and <I>homo faber.</I> </DL>
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<B>homo</B> (2), noun, pl. <B>-mos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a homosexual. </DL>
<A NAME="homo">
<B>Homo, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) the genus of primate mammals comprising man, including one extant species, <I>Homo sapiens,</I> and various extinct species known from fossil remains. </DL>
<A NAME="homo">
<B>homo-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) the same; equal. <BR> <I>Ex. Homogeneous = of the same kind.</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>hom-</B> before vowels. </DL>
<B>homocercal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having a tail in which the upper and lower lobes are symmetrical or almost symmetrical, the end of the spinal column coinciding with the base of the tail fin. <BR> <I>Ex. a homocercal fish.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with this form of tail. </DL>
<A NAME="homochromatic">
<B>homochromatic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> relating to or possessing one color or hue; homochromous. </DL>
<A NAME="homochromatism">
<B>homochromatism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition of being homochromatic. </DL>
<A NAME="homochromous">
<B>homochromous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of the same color. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Botany.) having all the florets of the same color, as a composite flower or flower head. </DL>
<A NAME="homocyclic">
<B>homocyclic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) <DD><I>adj. </I> having a ring structure in which the ring is composed of carbon atoms only. <DD><I>noun </I> a homocyclic compound. </DL>
<A NAME="homocysteine">
<B>homocysteine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a crystalline amino acid that is an intermediate in the metabolic conversion of methionine to cysteine. </DL>
<A NAME="homocystine">
<B>homocystine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the oxidized, disulfide form of homocysteine. </DL>
<A NAME="homocystinuria">
<B>homocystinuria, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a genetic disorder, inherited recessively, characterized by the presence of abnormal amounts of homocystine in the urine. <BR> <I>Ex. In homocystinuria ... patients may be mentally retarded and suffer from osteoporosis and dislocation of the lenses of the eyes (Science News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="homodromous">
<B>homodromous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) having the spiral arrangement of the leaves on the stem and of those on the branches in the same direction. </DL>
<B>Homo erectus,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a species of man, including Java man, Peking man, and Chellean man, regarded by some scholars as the ancestor of Homo sapiens, into which it evolved at several different stages. </DL>
<B>homo faber,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> man as a worker or artisan. <BR> <I>Ex. Homo faber we all know: the shaping of a stone ax is no less a technique than the engineering of a chemical plant (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="homogamous">
<B>homogamous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) <DD><B> 1. </B>having flowers or florets that do not differ sexually. <DD><B> 2. </B>having the stamens and pistils maturing at the same time, as a monoclinous flower. </DL>
<A NAME="homogamy">
<B>homogamy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Botany.) homogamous condition, especially the condition of having the stamens and pistils of a monoclinous flower mature at the same time. <DD><B> 2. </B>the mating of individuals of the same species or of similar characteristics; inbreeding. </DL>
<A NAME="homogenate">
<B>homogenate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a homogenized substance, especially tissue that has been homogenized for study or analysis. </DL>
<A NAME="homogeneity">
<B>homogeneity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being homogeneous. (SYN) uniformity. </DL>
<A NAME="homogeneous">
<B>homogeneous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of the same kind, nature, or character; similar. <BR> <I>Ex. a dull city of homogeneous buildings.</I> (SYN) alike, congruous. <DD><B> 2. </B>made up of similar elements or parts; of uniform nature or character throughout. <BR> <I>Ex. Africais not a homogeneous place but a collection of territories that vary enormously in their qualities and their problems (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Mathematics.) <DD><B> a. </B>of the same degree or dimensions. <DD><B> b. </B>of the same kind and commensurable. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Biology.) homogenous. adv. <B>homogeneously.</B> noun <B>homogeneousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="homogeneouscatalysis">
<B>homogeneous catalysis,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> catalysis that occurs when the reacting chemicals, their products, and the catalyst are all liquids or all gases. </DL>
<A NAME="homogeneousfunction">
<B>homogeneous function,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) a polynomial in two or more variables, all the terms being of the same degree. </DL>
<A NAME="homogenesis">
<B>homogenesis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) the ordinary course of generation in which the offspring is like the parent and goes through the same cycle of development. </DL>
<A NAME="homogenetic">
<B>homogenetic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Biology.) <DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with homogenesis. <DD><B> 2. </B>having a common origin; derived from the same structure, however modified. </DL>
