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Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.

One who kills another; a manslayer. Chaucer. Shak.

In human form. [Obs.] Cudworth.

A homilist.

ourse; social; affable; conversable; companionable. [R.] His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.

The art of preaching; that branch of theology which treats of homilies or sermons, and the best method of preparing and delivering them.

One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.

A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

A serious or tedious exhortation in private on some moral point, or on the conduct of life. As I have heard my father Deal out in his long homilies. Byron. Book of Homilies. A collection of authorized, printed sermons, to be read by ministers in churches, esp. one issued in the time of Edward VI., and a second, issued…

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

e hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]

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

A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. Bartram.

Filled with hommocks; piled in the form of hommocks; -- said of ice.

A combining form from Gr. "omo`s, one and the same, common, joint.

Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

Having the same center.

Having the tail nearly or quite symmetrical, the vertebral column terminating near its base; -- opposed to heterocercal.

The possession of a homocercal tail.

A body similar to, or identical with, cerebrin.