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Plainly; inelegantly. [R.]

Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] "Wifely homeliness." Chaucer.

A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench.

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.

The European sand ray (Raia maculata); -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.

Made at home; of domestic manufacture; made either in a private family or in one's own country. Locke.

A practitioner of homeopathy. [Written also homoeopath.]

Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy. [Also homoepathic.]

According to the practice of homeopathy. [Also homoepathically.]

A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. [Written also homoepathist.]

unded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. [Written also homoepathy.]

A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets; resembling the poetry of Homer. Homeric verse, hexameter verse; -- so called because used by Homer in his epics.

Pining for home; in a nostalgic condition. -- Home"sick`ness, n.

Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. "Homespun country garbs." W. Irving.

Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.

The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. Dryden.

One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner. [Local, U.S.]

Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.

Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country. Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.