2. 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 in the reign of Elizabeth; — both books being certified to contain a "godly and wholesome doctrine."
HOMING
Hom"ing, a.
Defn: Home-returning; — used specifically of carrier pigeons.
HOMINY Hom"i*ny, n. Etym: [From North American Indian auhúminea parched corn.]
Defn: Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]
HOMISH
Hom"ish, a.
Defn: Like a home or a home circle.
Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life. E. E. Hale.
HOMMOCK
Hom"mock, n.
Defn: A small eminence of a conical form, of land or of ice; a knoll; a hillock. See Hummock. Bartram.
HOMMOCKY
Hom"mock*y, a.