Homer
['həʊmə] or ['homɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a base hit on which the batter scores a run.
(noun.) ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC).
(noun.) United States painter best known for his seascapes (1836-1910).
(noun.) an ancient Hebrew unit of capacity equal to 10 baths or 10 ephahs.
(verb.) hit a home run.
Checker: Wilmer--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
(n.) See Hoemother.
(n.) 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.
Typist: Ollie
Definition
n. a Hebrew measure of capacity amounting to about 10 bushels and 3 gallons.
Typed by Corinne
Examples
- The days of Homer were his ideal, when a man was chief of an army of heroes, or spent his years in wonderful Odyssey. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Like Homer, he is said to be buried in many other places, but this is the only true and genuine place his ashes inhabit. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He does not, like Heracleitus, get into a rage with Homer and Archilochus (Heracl. Plato. The Republic.
- You seem to know your Homer, Count, said the Rector, rather surprised at the classical knowledge of this ignorant young man. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But, if Homer never did any public service, was he privately a guide or teacher of any? Plato. The Republic.
- But they did not; and therefore we may infer that Homer and all the poets are only imitators, who do but imitate the appearances of things. Plato. The Republic.
- He was just beginning to be conscious that the past had a history; but he could see nothing beyond Homer and Hesiod. Plato. The Republic.
- The armour of Diomede, says Homer, cost only nine oxen; but that of Glaucus cost a hundred oxen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He may make Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Plato, Bacon the friends and companions of his life. Plato. The Republic.
- Aha, Miss Rosy, you don't know Homer from slang. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And I can hardly be mistaken in saying that sweet sauces are nowhere mentioned in Homer. Plato. The Republic.
- Away with the lying dream of Agamemnon in Homer, and the accusation of Thetis against Apollo in Aeschylus. Plato. The Republic.
- I think Homer, with his 'multitudinous laughter of the sea,' is the only poet who pays Ocean a compliment. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Homer to the Greeks was a Bible, a textbook of morals, a history, and a national inspiration. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Homer wrote his poem, called the _Odyssey_, some hundred years before the birth of Christ. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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