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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.]

The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was…

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.

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.

Same as Alcoholometer, Alcoholometric.

An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused of using in their mysterious rites.

An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.

An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.

The art of measuring shells or their curves; conchyliometry.

A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, and determining their different, and the relation of their intervals. J. J. Rousseau.

The art of measuring the duration of sounds or echoes.