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  • English Word Holt Definition A deep hole in a river where there is protection for fish; also, a cover, a hole, or hiding place.
  • English Word Holwe Definition Hollow.
  • English Word Holy Definition Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed; sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels; a holy priesthood.
  • English Word Holy Definition Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly; pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
  • English Word Holy cross Definition The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion.
  • English Word Holyday Definition A religious festival.
  • English Word Holyday Definition A secular festival; a holiday.
  • English Word Holystone Definition A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.
  • English Word Holystone Definition To scrub with a holystone, as the deck of a vessel.
  • English Word Homacanth Definition Having the dorsal fin spines symmetrical, and in the same line; -- said of certain fishes.
  • English Word Homage Definition A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; profession of fealty to a sovereign.
  • English Word Homage Definition Respect or reverential regard; deference; especially, respect paid by external action; obeisance.
  • English Word Homage Definition Reverence directed to the Supreme Being; reverential worship; devout affection.
  • English Word Homage Definition To pay reverence to by external action.
  • English Word Homage Definition To cause to pay homage.
  • English Word Homageable Definition Subject to homage.
  • English Word Homaged Definition of Homage
  • English Word Homager Definition One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal.
  • English Word Homaging Definition of Homage
  • English Word Homalographic Definition Same as Homolographic.
  • English Word Homaloid Definition Alt. of Homaloidal
  • English Word Homaloidal Definition Flat; even; -- a term applied to surfaces and to spaces, whether real or imagined, in which the definitions, axioms, and postulates of Euclid respecting parallel straight lines are assumed to hold true.
  • English Word Homarus Definition A genus of decapod Crustacea, including the common lobsters.
  • English Word Homatropine Definition An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.
  • English Word Homaxonial Definition Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematical conception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See under Promorphology.
  • English Word Home Definition See Homelyn.
  • English Word Home Definition One's own dwelling place; the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also, one's birthplace.
  • English Word Home Definition One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
  • English Word Home Definition The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
  • English Word Home Definition The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat; as, the home of the pine.