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Homestead Movement: in U.S. history, movement that promoted the free ownership of land in the Midwest, Great Plains, and the West by people willing to settle on and cultivate it. The movement ...
Homestead National Monument of America: area in southeastern Nebraska, U.S., just west of Beatrice, established in 1936 as a memorial emblematic of the hardships of pioneer life. It is the site of the first claim ...
homicide: the killing of one human being by another. Homicide is a general term and may refer to a noncriminal act as well as the criminal act of ...
homing: ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it, often over great distances. The major navigational clues used by homing animals seem to be the ...
Hominidae: in zoology, one of the two living families of the ape superfamily Hominoidea, the other being the Hylobatidae (gibbons). Hominidae includes the great apes-that is, the orangutans (genus
Hominoidea: in zoology, a superfamily of primates containing all the apes as well as human beings. All hominoids can stand or sit erect with great facility, and all share the following ...
hominy: kernels of corn, either whole or ground, from which the hull and germ have been removed by a process usually involving a caustic agent. Hominy was traditionally prepared by boiling ...
Homma Masaharu: Japanese army general and commander of the Japanese invasion force of the Philippine Islands in World War II.
Homme, Musee de l': (French: "Museum of Man"), in Paris, museum and library of ethnography and anthropology. It was founded in 1878 and is supported by the state.
Homo: genus of the family Hominidae (order Primates) characterized by a relatively large cranial capacity, limb structure adapted to a habitual erect posture and a bipedal gait, well-developed and fully opposable ...
Homo erectus: extinct species of the human genus (Homo), perhaps an ancestor of modern humans (Homo sapiens). H. erectus most likely originated in Africa, though Eurasia cannot be ruled ...
Homo floresiensis: taxonomic name given to an extinct hominin (member of the human lineage) that is presumed to have lived on the Indonesian island of Flores as recently as 18,000 years ago, ...
Homo habilis: extinct species of human, the most ancient representative of the human genus, Homo. H. habilis inhabited parts of sub-Saharan Africa from perhaps 2 to 1.5 million years ago (mya). In ...
Homo heidelbergensis: extinct species of archaic human (genus Homo) known from fossils dating from 600,000 to 300,000 years ago in Africa, Europe, and possibly Asia. The name first appeared in print in ...
Homo sapiens: the species to which all modern human beings belong. Homo sapiens is one of several species grouped into the genus Homo, but it is the only one that is not ...
homocystinuria: hereditary metabolic disorder involving methionine, a sulfur-containing essential amino acid. The metabolic sequence of methionine normally begins with its stepwise conversion to homocysteine, cystathionine, and cysteine, successively, each step being ...
Homoean: in the Trinitarian controversies of the 4th-century Christian Church, a follower of Acacius, bishop of Caesarea. The Homoeans taught a form of Arianism that asserted that the Son was distinct ...
homogeneous reaction: any of a class of chemical reactions that occur in a single phase (gaseous, liquid, or solid), one of two broad classes of reactions-homogeneous and heterogeneous-based on the physical state ...
homogenization: process of reducing a substance, such as the fat globules in milk, to extremely small particles and distributing it uniformly throughout a fluid, such as milk. When milk is properly ...
Homolka, Oscar: Austrian-born U.S. character actor of stage and screen, known for his memorable portrayals of spies and villains.
homologous series: any of numerous groups of chemical compounds in each of which the difference between successive members is a simple structural unit. Such series are most common among organic compounds, the ...
homology: in mathematics, a basic notion of algebraic topology. Intuitively, two curves in a plane or other two-dimensional surface are homologous if together they bound a region-thereby distinguishing between an inside ...
homology: in biology, similarity of the structure, physiology, or development of different species of organisms based upon their descent from a common evolutionary ancestor. Homology is contrasted with analogy, which is ...
homomorphism: a special correspondence between the members (elements) of two algebraic systems, such as two groups, two rings, or two fields. Two homomorphic systems have the same basic structure, and, while ...
homoousios: in Christianity, the key term of the Christological doctrine formulated at the first ecumenical council, at Nicaea in 325, to affirm that God the Son and God the Father are ...
homophony: musical texture based primarily on chords, in contrast to polyphony, which results from combinations of relatively independent melodies. In homophony, one part, usually the highest, tends to predominate and there ...
homopteran: any member of the order Homoptera, a large group of sucking insects. The members exhibit considerable diversity in body size and number more than 32,000 species. All of the Homoptera ...
homosexuality: sexual interest in and attraction to members of one's own sex. The term gay is frequently used as a synonym for homosexual; female homosexuality is often referred to as lesbianism.
homotopy: in mathematics, a way of classifying geometric regions by studying the different types of paths that can be drawn in the region. Two paths with common endpoints are called homotopic ...
homozygote: an organism with identical pairs of genes (or alleles) for a specific trait. If both of the two gametes (sex cells) that fuse during fertilization carry the same form of ...
Hon'ami Koetsu: celebrated Japanese painter of the Tokugawa period who was also an innovator in lacquerwork (with raised inlays of metal and shell and bold designs), a calligrapher, a potter, a connoisseur ...
Honan: sheng (province) of north-central China. It has an area of 64,700 square miles (167,700 square kilometres). The province stretches some 300 miles (500 kilometres) from north to ...
Honaunau: village and historical site, Hawaii county, on the western coast of Hawaii island, Hawaii, U.S. Located at the southern end of Kealakekua Bay, it was once the traditional seat of ...
Honda Motor Company, Ltd.: leading Japanese manufacturer of motorcycles and a major producer of automobiles for the world market. Headquarters are in Tokyo.
Honda Soichiro: Japanese industrialist and engineer who was the founder of Honda Motor Company, Ltd.
Honda Toshiaki: one of the first Japanese scholars to undertake a thorough investigation of Western thought and customs and to advocate the adoption by Japan of many Western techniques and ideas.
Hondecoeter, Melchior de: Baroque painter of the Dutch school who specialized in bird studies.
Honduras: country of Central America situated between Guatemala and El Salvador to the west and Nicaragua to the south and east. The Caribbean Sea washes its northern coast, the Pacific Ocean ...
Honduras, British: former British colony that was renamed Belize in 1973 and became independent in 1981. See Belize.
Honduras, Gulf of: wide inlet of the Caribbean Sea, indenting the coasts of Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize. It extends from Dangriga (formerly Stann Creek), Belize, southeastward to La Ceiba, Honduras, a straight-line distance ...
Hone, William: English radical journalist, bookseller, publisher, and satirist, notable for his attacks on political and social abuses. He is remembered primarily for his struggle for the freedom of the English press.
Honecker, Erich: communist official who, as first secretary of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party of Germany (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, or SED), was East Germany's leader from 1971 until he fell from power ...
Honegger, Arthur: composer associated with the modern movement in French music in the first half of the 20th century.
Honen: Buddhist priest, founder of the Pure Land (Jodo) Buddhist sect of Japan. He was seminal in establishing Pure Land pietism as one of the central forms of Buddhism in Japan. ...
Honesdale: borough (town), seat of Wayne county, northeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., at the confluence of the Lackawaxen and Dyberry rivers, 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Scranton. Settled in the early 1800s, ...
honesty: either of the two species of the genus Lunaria, of the mustard family (Brassicaceae). They are European annuals or biennials that are widely grown for their disklike, papery, seedpod partitions, ...
honey: sweet, viscous liquid food, dark golden in colour, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from the nectar of flowers. Flavour and colour are determined by the flowers from ...
honey ant: any member of several different species of ant (family Formicidae; order Hymenoptera) that have developed a unique way of storing the honeydew, a by-product of digestion that is gathered mainly ...
honey bear: either of two bear species, the sloth bear and the sun bear (qq.v.).
honey bell: (Hermannia verticillata), rambling shrub, of the cacao, or chocolate, family (Sterculiaceae), native to Africa. Widely cultivated indoors, chiefly as a basket plant, it grows up to 15 centimetres (6 inches) ...
honey bush: (Melianthus major), evergreen shrub, of the family Melianthaceae, native to southern Africa. Because of its sweet-scented flowers and handsome foliage, it is cultivated elsewhere, notably southern California.
honey guide: any of about a dozen species of birds constituting the family Indicitoridae (order Piciformes). The honey guide gets its name from two African species, the greater, or black-throated, honey guide ...
honey locust: any of the thorny trees of the genus Gleditsia, in the pea family (Fabaceae), with about 12 species native to North and South America, tropical Africa, and central and eastern ...
honeybee: in a broad sense, any insect of the tribe Apini (family Apidae, order Hymenoptera), which includes all bees that make honey; in a stricter sense, honeybee applies to any one ...
honeycreeper: any of the tropical American birds of the subfamily Coerebinae, family Emberizidae. Birds of the Hawaiian honeycreeper (q.v.) group constitute the family Drepanididae and are commonly referred to as drepanidids.
honeyeater: any of the 170 species of the songbird family Meliphagidae (order Passeriformes), including some of the commonest birds of Australia, New Guinea, and the western Pacific islands.
honeysuckle: any of about 200 species of ornamental shrubs and climbers of the genus Lonicera (family Caprifoliaceae). Honeysuckles are native to temperate zones of both hemispheres, but they also grow in ...
Honeywell International Inc.: American advanced-technology company that manufactures aerospace and automotive products; residential, commercial, and industrial control systems; specialty chemicals and plastics; and engineered materials. The present company was formed in 1999 through ...
Honfleur: seaport, Calvados departement, Basse-Normandie region, northern France. It lies on the southern bank of the Seine River estuary, opposite Le Havre and west of Rouen. A yachting, tourist, and small ...
Hong Gai: port city, northeastern Vietnam. Hong Gai lies along Ha Long Bay of the Gulf of Tonkin, about 25 miles (40 km) northeast of Haiphong. It is an export centre for ...
Hong Kong: special administrative region (Wade-Giles: t'e-pieh hsing-cheng-ch'u; Pinyin: tebie xingzhengqu) of China located to the east of the Pearl River (Chu Chiang) estuary on the south coast of China. The region ...
Hong Shen: pioneering Chinese dramatist and filmmaker.
Hongren: foremost painter of the Anhui (Xinan) school, a centre of painting in southeast China during the Qing period that was noted for its unusual land features, especially of Huang Shan ...
Honiara: town, capital of the Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The town is situated at the mouth of the Mataniko River on the north coast of Guadalcanal. A port and communications ...
Honiton lace: bobbin lace made in England at Honiton, Devonshire, from the 17th century. By Honiton most people, however, mean the lace made there in the 19th century in which strong floral ...
Honolulu: capital and principal port of Hawaii, U.S., seat of Honolulu county. A modern city, it extends about 10 miles (16 km) along the southeastern shore of Oahu Island and 4 ...
Honor, Medal of: the foremost U.S. military decoration, instituted by Congress in 1861 for the navy and in 1862 for the army, at first awarded only to enlisted men, with officers being permitted ...
honorific: a grammatical form used in speaking to a social superior. In English it has largely disappeared, retained only in the use of the third person when speaking to someone clearly ...
Honorius: antipope from 1061 to 1072.
Honorius: Roman emperor in the West from 393 to 423, a period when much of the Western Empire was overrun by invading tribes and Rome was captured and plundered by the ...
Honorius I: pope from 625 to 638 whose posthumous condemnation as a heretic subsequently caused extensive controversy on the question of papal infallibility.
Honorius II: original name Lamberto Scannabecchi pope from 1124 to 1130.
Honorius III: original name Cencio Savelli pope from 1216 to 1227, who is often considered one of the great administrators in papal history.
Honorius IV: original name Giacomo Savelli pope from 1285 to 1287.
Honos: ancient Roman deified abstraction of honour, particularly as a military virtue. The earliest shrine of this deity in Rome was perhaps built not earlier than the 3rd century BC and ...
Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers: one of the world's oldest golfing societies, founded in 1744 by a group of gentlemen who played on a five-hole course at Leith, which is now a district of Edinburgh. ...