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Holy Rood – Honeycomb

Holy Rood

a cross or crucifix; especially one placed on the rood-beam in churches over the entrance to the chancel.

Holy rood day is a festival kept on HOLYROOD Sept. 14, in commemoration of the exaltation of the Saviour's Cross. Also called holy cross day.

Holy Sepulchre

the sepulcher in which the body of Jesus was laid between His death and His resurrection. Also the Byzantine Church, built at Jerusalem on what is by some believed to be the site of the sepulcher. The Order of the Holy Sepulcher is an order founded by Godfrey of Bouillon.

Holy Synod

a council established at St. Petersburg in the former Russian Empire, to act for the Emperor, he being the earthly head of the Greek Church in Russia.

Holy Thursday

in the English Church, Ascension Day; in the Roman Church the Thursday in Holy-week, Maundy-Thursday.

Holy Water

in the Roman Catholic Church, water which has been blessed, or consecrated, by an appropriate service, and used to sprinkle the worshipers and the things used in the church.

Holy Week

or PASSION WEEK, the week which immediately precedes Easter, and is devoted especially to commemorate the passion of our Lord. The days more especially solemnized during it are Spy Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. It is an institution of very early origin.

Homiletics

the art of preaching; that branch of practical theology which discourses of the pulpit to the spiritual teaches the principles of adapting the benefit of the hearers.

Homologous

in geometry, corresponding in relative position and proportion. In physiology, corresponding in type of structure; thus, the human arm, the foreleg of a horse, the wing of a bird, and the swimming-paddle of a doiphin or whale, being all composed essentially of the same structural elements, are said to be homologous, though they are adapted for quite different functions.

Honduras

BAY OF

Honduras

BAY OF, a wide inlet of the Caribbean Sea, having on the S.

Guatemala and Honduras, Honduras, and on the W. British Honduras and Yucatan.

Along its shores are the islands of Bonaca, Ruatan, Utila, Turneff, and numerous islets and reefs called cays.

Honduras

BRITISH. See BELIZE.

Honeycomb

the hexagonal cell formed by the hive bee for the reception HONEY SPRINGS of honey and for the eggs of the queen bee, and a habitation for the larva of the insect till reaching maturity.