HOMBURG

(Ger.), n. Hosm'burg. A place in the Pru ian province of He e-Na au, situated on the slope of the Taunus and generally called H. on the hill, where there are four famous mineral springs, called Ludwigsquelle, Kaiserquelle or Sprudel, Elisabethquelle or Kurbrunnen, and Stahlbrunnen. of which the second is richest in free carbonic acid, the third in iron carbonate, and the fourth in sodium chloride. [L, 30, 37, 49, 135 (a, 14).] too; U2, blue; U3, lull; U4, full: Us. urn: U8, like ii (German). [s. 351]