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The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge. [Written also, but improperly, lazaroni.]

To lodge; to sleep. Whiles I was now trifling at home, I saw London, . . . where I lay one night only. Evelyn. Mr. Quinion lay at our house that night. Dickens.

To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside. Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. Gen. xlvii. 28.

ourse or way; a reach of water. Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. C. Kingsley.

has been placed a backing of some reflecting substance, as quicksilver. There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

of body. Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home. Milton.

uthoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic. When magisterial duties from his home Her father called. Glover. We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man. Sir T. Browne. Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current paymen…

To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.

n active service. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line.

ned by evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an article of diet. See Lactose.

e, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir.

aining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed. [Written also Mahometan, Mahomedan, Muhammadan, etc.]

ke conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism. [Written also Mahometanize.]

A fabulous herb of occult power, having a black root and white blossoms, said by Homer to have been given by Hermes to Ulysses to counteract the spells of Circe. Milton.

murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. [Archaic or Poetic] The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.

Music. [Obs.] To fetch home May with their musical. Spenser.

relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warior and counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, Nestorian caution.

To be drowsy or dull; to be careless. Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. Pope.

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

An epic poem attributed to Homer, which describes the return of Ulysses to Ithaca after the siege of Troy.