Homespun
(Home"spun) a.
1. Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain. "Homespun country garbs." W. Irving.
2. Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse. "Our homespun English proverb." Dryden. "Our
homespun authors." Addison.
Homespun
(Home"spun), n.
1. Cloth made at home; as, he was dressed in homespun.
2. An unpolished, rustic person. [Obs.] Shak.
Homestall
(Home"stall`) n. [AS. hamsteall.] Place of a home; homestead. Cowper.
Homestead
(Home"stead) n. [AS. hamstede.]
1. The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. Dryden.
2. The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.
W. Tooke. 3. (Law) The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied
by him and his family.
Homestead law. (a) A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp.,
a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws,
with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also homestead
exemption law. (b) Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of
public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers. [U.S.]
Homesteader
(Home"stead*er) n. 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.]
Homeward
(Home"ward) a. Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way.
Homeward
(Home"ward Home"wards) adv. [AS. hamweard.] Toward home; in the direction of one's
house, town, or country.
Homeward bound, bound for home; going homeward; as, the homeward bound fleet.
Homicidal
(Hom"i*ci`dal) a. Pertaining to homicide; tending to homicide; murderous.
Homicide
(Hom"i*cide) n. [F., fr. L. homicidium, fr. homicida a man slayer; homo man + caedere to
cut, kill. See Homage, and cf. Concise, Shed, v. t.]
1. The killing of one human being by another.
Homicide is of three kinds: justifiable, as when the killing is performed in the exercise of a right or performance
of a duty; excusable, as when done, although not as duty or right, yet without culpable or criminal intent; and
felonious, or involving what the law terms malice; the latter may be either manslaughter or murder. Bouvier.
2. One who kills another; a manslayer. Chaucer. Shak.
Homiform
(Hom"i*form) a. [L. homo man + -form.] In human form. [Obs.] Cudworth.
