homer

10 definitions found

homer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Homer \Hom"er\, n. (Zool.)
     A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home
     from a distance.
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  Homer \Ho"mer\, n. (Zool.)
     See Hoemother.
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  Homer \Ho"mer\, n. [Heb. kh[=o]mer.]
     A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths,
     equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and,
     as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two
     pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]
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  Homer \Ho"mer\, n. (Baseball)
     Same as Home run.
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  Hoemother \Hoe"moth`er\, n. [A local Orkney name; cf. Icel.
     h[=a]r.] (Zool.)
     The basking or liver shark; -- called also homer. See
     Liver shark, under Liver.
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  Liver \Liv"er\, n. [AS. lifer; akin to D. liver, G. leber, OHG.
     lebara, Icel. lifr, Sw. lefver, and perh. to Gr. ? fat, E.
     live, v.] (Anat.)
     A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral
     cavity of all vertebrates.
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     Note: Most of the venous blood from the alimentary canal
           passes through it on its way back to the heart; and it
           secretes the bile, produces glycogen, and in other ways
           changes the blood which passes through it. In man it is
           situated immediately beneath the diaphragm and mainly
           on the right side. See Bile, Digestive, and
           Glycogen. The liver of invertebrate animals is
           usually made up of c[ae]cal tubes, and differs
           materially, in form and function, from that of
           vertebrates.
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     Floating liver. See Wandering liver, under Wandering.
        
  
     Liver of antimony, Liver of sulphur. (Old Chem.) See
        Hepar.
  
     Liver brown, Liver color, the color of liver, a dark,
        reddish brown.
  
     Liver shark (Zool.), a very large shark (Cetorhinus  maximus
        ), inhabiting the northern coasts both of Europe
        and North America. It sometimes becomes forty feet in
        length, being one of the largest sharks known; but it has
        small simple teeth, and is not dangerous. It is captured
        for the sake of its liver, which often yields several
        barrels of oil. It has gill rakers, resembling whalebone,
        by means of which it separates small animals from the sea
        water. Called also basking shark, bone shark,
        hoemother, homer, and sailfish; it is sometimes
        referred to as whale shark, but that name is more
        commonly used for the Rhincodon typus, which grows even
        larger.
  
     Liver spots, yellowish brown patches on the skin, or spots
        of chloasma.
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homer - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  homer
      n 1: a base hit on which the batter scores a run [syn: homer,
           home run]
      2: ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the
         Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
      3: an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10
         ephahs [syn: homer, kor]
      4: United States painter best known for his seascapes
         (1836-1910) [syn: Homer, Winslow Homer]
      5: pigeon trained to return home [syn: homing pigeon, homer]
      v 1: hit a home run

homer - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Homer
  heap, the largest of dry measures, containing about 8 bushels or
  1 quarter English = 10 ephahs (Lev. 27:16; Num. 11:32) = a COR.
  (See OMER.)
  
    "Half a homer," a grain measure mentioned only in Hos. 3:2.

homer - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Homer, AK (city, FIPS 33140)
    Location: 59.63546 N, 151.52217 W
    Population (1990): 3660 (1673 housing units)
    Area: 28.3 sq km (land), 40.8 sq km (water)
  Homer, GA (town, FIPS 39720)
    Location: 34.33382 N, 83.49967 W
    Population (1990): 742 (332 housing units)
    Area: 24.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 30547
  Homer, IL (village, FIPS 35814)
    Location: 40.03189 N, 87.95893 W
    Population (1990): 1264 (516 housing units)
    Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 61849
  Homer, LA (town, FIPS 35870)
    Location: 32.79357 N, 93.05868 W
    Population (1990): 4152 (1800 housing units)
    Area: 11.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 71040
  Homer, MI (village, FIPS 38920)
    Location: 42.14547 N, 84.80998 W
    Population (1990): 1758 (685 housing units)
    Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 49245
  Homer, NE (village, FIPS 22920)
    Location: 42.32197 N, 96.49110 W
    Population (1990): 553 (208 housing units)
    Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Homer, NY (village, FIPS 35276)
    Location: 42.63781 N, 76.18356 W
    Population (1990): 3476 (1379 housing units)
    Area: 4.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 13077

homer - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "homer":
     carrier, carrier pigeon, goal, grand slam, hit, hole, hole in one,
     home run, homing pigeon, mail car, mail coach, mail packet,
     mail train, mail truck, mailer, mailplane, packet boat,
     pigeon post, post boat, post car, post coach, post-horse,
     post-office car, poster, railway mail car, score, slam, strike,
     touchdown