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homer
(encz) | homer, n: |
homer
(encz) | Homer,Homér Zdeněk Brož |
Homer
(gcide) | Homer \Ho"mer\, n. (Baseball)
Same as Home run.
[PJC] |
Homer
(gcide) | Homer \Homer\ (h[=o]"m[~e]r). [L. Homerus, Gr. "O`mhros, one who
puts together; a hostage; a pledge agreed upon between two
parties.]
The poet to whom is assigned by very ancient tradition the
authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and of certain hymns
to the gods ("Homeric Hymns"). Other poems also, as the
"Batrachomyomachia" ("Battle of the Frogs and Mice"), were
with less certainty attributed to him. Of his personality
nothing is known. Seven cities -- Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon,
Salamis (in Cyprus), Chios, Argos, and Athens -- contended
for the honor of being his birthplace: of these, the best
evidence connects him with Smyrna. He was said to have died
on the island of Ios. The tradition that he lived on the
island of Chios, and in his old age was blind, is supported
by the Hymn to the Delian Apollo. Modern destructive
criticism has led to the doubt whether such a person as Homer
existed at all, the great epics which bear that name being
supposed to be, in their existing form, of a composite
character, the product of various persons and ages. It is
altogether probable, however, that the nucleus of the Iliad,
at least, was the work of a single poet of commanding genius.
(See Iliad, Odyssey, and the quotation below.) Various dates
have been assigned to Homer. According to Herodotus he lived
about 850 b. c.; others give a later date, and some a date as
early as 1200 b. c. His poems were sung by professional
reciters (rhapsodists, who went from city to city;
Note: Homeridae). They were given substantially their present
form by Pisistratus or his sons Hipparchus and Hippias,
who ordered the rhapsodists to recite them at the
Panathenaic festival in their order and completeness.
The present text of the poems, with their division into
books, is based upon the work of the Alexandrine
critics.
Note: We may assume it as certain that there existed in Ionia
schools or fraternities of epic rhapsodists who
composed and recited heroic lays at feasts, and often
had friendly contests in these recitations. The origin
of these recitations may be sought in northern Greece,
from which the fashion migrated in early days to Asia
Minor. We may assume that these singers became popular
in many parts of Greece, and that they wandered from
court to court, glorifying the heroic ancestors of the
various chiefs. One among them, called Homer, was
endowed with a genius superior to the rest, and struck
out a plot capable of nobler and larger treatment. It
is likely that this superiority was not recognized at
the time, and that he remained all his life a singer
like the rest, a wandering minstrel, possibly poor and
blind. The listening public gradually stamped his poem
with their approval, they demanded its frequent
recitation, and so this Homer began to attain a great
posthumous fame. But when this fame led people to
inquire into his life and history, it had already
passed out of recollection, and men supplied by fables
what they had forgotten or neglected. The rhapsodists,
however, then turned their attention to expanding and
perfecting his poem, which was greatly enlarged and
called the Iliad. In doing this they had recourse to
the art of writing, which seems to have been in use
when Homer framed his poem, but which was certainly
employed when the plan was enlarged with episodes. The
home of the original Homer seems to have been about
Smyrna, and in contact with both Aeolic and Ionic
legends. His date is quite uncertain: it need not be
placed before 800 B. C., and is perhaps later, but not
after 700 a. c. --Mahaffy, Hist. of Classical Greek
Lit., I. 81.
[century Dict. 1906] |
Homer
(gcide) | Homer \Hom"er\, n. (Zool.)
A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home
from a distance; also called a homing pigeon.
[1913 Webster] |
Homer
(gcide) | Homer \Ho"mer\, n. (Zool.)
See Hoemother.
[1913 Webster] |
Homer
(gcide) | 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.]
[1913 Webster] |
homer
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster] |
homer
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
homer
(wn) | 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 |
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homer
(encz) | homer, n: Homer,Homér Zdeněk Brož |
homeric
(encz) | Homeric,homérovský adj: Zdeněk Brož |
homeroom
(encz) | homeroom, |
homers
(encz) | homers, |
solo homer
(encz) | solo homer, n: |
chomer
(gcide) | 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.]
[1913 Webster] |
Fathomer
(gcide) | Fathomer \Fath"om*er\, n.
One who fathoms.
[1913 Webster] |
homer
(gcide) | Homer \Ho"mer\, n. (Baseball)
Same as Home run.
[PJC]Homer \Homer\ (h[=o]"m[~e]r). [L. Homerus, Gr. "O`mhros, one who
puts together; a hostage; a pledge agreed upon between two
parties.]
The poet to whom is assigned by very ancient tradition the
authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and of certain hymns
to the gods ("Homeric Hymns"). Other poems also, as the
"Batrachomyomachia" ("Battle of the Frogs and Mice"), were
with less certainty attributed to him. Of his personality
nothing is known. Seven cities -- Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon,
Salamis (in Cyprus), Chios, Argos, and Athens -- contended
for the honor of being his birthplace: of these, the best
evidence connects him with Smyrna. He was said to have died
on the island of Ios. The tradition that he lived on the
island of Chios, and in his old age was blind, is supported
by the Hymn to the Delian Apollo. Modern destructive
criticism has led to the doubt whether such a person as Homer
existed at all, the great epics which bear that name being
supposed to be, in their existing form, of a composite
character, the product of various persons and ages. It is
altogether probable, however, that the nucleus of the Iliad,
at least, was the work of a single poet of commanding genius.
(See Iliad, Odyssey, and the quotation below.) Various dates
have been assigned to Homer. According to Herodotus he lived
about 850 b. c.; others give a later date, and some a date as
early as 1200 b. c. His poems were sung by professional
reciters (rhapsodists, who went from city to city;
Note: Homeridae). They were given substantially their present
form by Pisistratus or his sons Hipparchus and Hippias,
who ordered the rhapsodists to recite them at the
Panathenaic festival in their order and completeness.
The present text of the poems, with their division into
books, is based upon the work of the Alexandrine
critics.
Note: We may assume it as certain that there existed in Ionia
schools or fraternities of epic rhapsodists who
composed and recited heroic lays at feasts, and often
had friendly contests in these recitations. The origin
of these recitations may be sought in northern Greece,
from which the fashion migrated in early days to Asia
Minor. We may assume that these singers became popular
in many parts of Greece, and that they wandered from
court to court, glorifying the heroic ancestors of the
various chiefs. One among them, called Homer, was
endowed with a genius superior to the rest, and struck
out a plot capable of nobler and larger treatment. It
is likely that this superiority was not recognized at
the time, and that he remained all his life a singer
like the rest, a wandering minstrel, possibly poor and
blind. The listening public gradually stamped his poem
with their approval, they demanded its frequent
recitation, and so this Homer began to attain a great
posthumous fame. But when this fame led people to
inquire into his life and history, it had already
passed out of recollection, and men supplied by fables
what they had forgotten or neglected. The rhapsodists,
however, then turned their attention to expanding and
perfecting his poem, which was greatly enlarged and
called the Iliad. In doing this they had recourse to
the art of writing, which seems to have been in use
when Homer framed his poem, but which was certainly
employed when the plan was enlarged with episodes. The
home of the original Homer seems to have been about
Smyrna, and in contact with both Aeolic and Ionic
legends. His date is quite uncertain: it need not be
placed before 800 B. C., and is perhaps later, but not
after 700 a. c. --Mahaffy, Hist. of Classical Greek
Lit., I. 81.
[century Dict. 1906]Homer \Hom"er\, n. (Zool.)
A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home
from a distance; also called a homing pigeon.
[1913 Webster]Homer \Ho"mer\, n. (Zool.)
See Hoemother.
[1913 Webster]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.]
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] |
Homeric
(gcide) | Homeric \Ho*mer"ic\, a. [L. Homericus, Gr. "Omhriko`s.]
Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets;
resembling the poetry of Homer.
[1913 Webster]
Homeric verse, hexameter verse; -- so called because used
by Homer in his epics.
[1913 Webster] |
Homeric verse
(gcide) | Homeric \Ho*mer"ic\, a. [L. Homericus, Gr. "Omhriko`s.]
Of or pertaining to Homer, the most famous of Greek poets;
resembling the poetry of Homer.
[1913 Webster]
Homeric verse, hexameter verse; -- so called because used
by Homer in his epics.
[1913 Webster] |
Sortes Homericae
(gcide) | Sors \Sors\, n.; pl. Sortes. [L.]
A lot; also, a kind of divination by means of lots.
[1913 Webster]
Sortes Homericae or Sortes Virgilianae [L., Homeric or
Virgilian lots], a form of divination anciently practiced,
which consisted in taking the first passage on which the
eye fell, upon opening a volume of Homer or Virgil, or a
passage drawn from an urn which several were deposited, as
indicating future events, or the proper course to be
pursued. In later times the Bible was used for the same
purpose by Christians.
[1913 Webster] |
homer
(wn) | 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 a. thompson
(wn) | Homer A. Thompson
n 1: United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada)
noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora
(1906-2000) [syn: Thompson, Homer Thompson, {Homer A.
Thompson}, Homer Armstrong Thompson] |
homer armstrong thompson
(wn) | Homer Armstrong Thompson
n 1: United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada)
noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora
(1906-2000) [syn: Thompson, Homer Thompson, {Homer A.
Thompson}, Homer Armstrong Thompson] |
homer thompson
(wn) | Homer Thompson
n 1: United States classical archaeologist (born in Canada)
noted for leading the excavation of the Athenian agora
(1906-2000) [syn: Thompson, Homer Thompson, {Homer A.
Thompson}, Homer Armstrong Thompson] |
homeric
(wn) | Homeric
adj 1: relating to or characteristic of Homer or his age or the
works attributed to him; "Homeric Greek" |
homeroom
(wn) | homeroom
n 1: a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or
in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the
supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does
other administrative business [syn: home room,
homeroom] |
solo homer
(wn) | solo homer
n 1: a home run with no runners on base [syn: solo homer,
solo blast] |
winslow homer
(wn) | Winslow Homer
n 1: United States painter best known for his seascapes
(1836-1910) [syn: Homer, Winslow Homer] |
homerf
(vera) | HOMERF
Home Radio Frequency (WLAN), "HomeRF"
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