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Stone forming the hearth; hence, the fireside; home. Chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone. A. Lincoln.

The act of measuring the velocity with which the blood circulates in the arteries; hæmotachometry.

Any substance resembling hepar proper, in appearance; specifically, in homeopathy, calcium sulphide, called also hepar sulphuris calcareum ( Hepar antimonii ( (Old Chem.), a substance, of a liver-brown color, obtained by fusing together antimony sulphide with alkaline sulphides, and consisting of sulphantimonites of th…

A domestic servant; a retainer. [Obs.] "False homely hewe." Chaucer.

actyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Æneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. Longfellow. Strongly it | bears us a- | long on | swel…

Winter home or abiding place. J. Burroughs.

-- also often with the reciprocal pronoun. [Rare, except in poetry] "My husband hies him home." Shak. The youth, returning to his mistress, hies. Dryden.

A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant. [Eng.] The hind, that homeward driving the slow steer Tells how man's daily work goes forward here. Trench.

The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See Liver shark, under Liver.

Home-returning; -- used specifically of carrier pigeons.

Like a home or a home circle. Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life. E. E. Hale.

Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.

Home. Chaucer.

An inn; a lodging house. [Archaic] Chaucer. "Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson. Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.

encies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle. At length have housed me in a humble shed. Young. House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse. Evelyn.

house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home. -- Household troops, troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence.

One who keeps or stays much at home. [R.] You are manifest housekeeper. Shak.

Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.

Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.

s, etc., and called by various specific names according to its construction or use, as tachometer, rheometer, hydrometer, pendulum, etc.; a current gauge.