How home the charge reaches us, has been made out.
--South.
They come home to men's business and bosoms.
--Bacon.
3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to
the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a
cartridge home.
Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. --Shak.
Note: Home is often used in the formation of compound words,
many of which need no special definition; as,
home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.
{To bring home}. See under {Bring}.
{To come home}.
(a) To touch or affect personally. See under {Come}.
(b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding
firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an anchor.
{To haul home the sheets of a sail} (Naut.), to haul the
clews close to the sheave hole. --Totten.
2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
{Home base} (Baseball), the base at which the batsman stands
and which is the last goal in making a run.
{Home farm}, {grounds}, etc., the farm, grounds, etc.,
adjacent to the residence of the owner.
{Home lot}, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home
stands. [U. S.]
{Home rule}, rule or government of an appendent or dependent
country, as to all local and internal legislation, by
means of a governing power vested in the people within the
country itself, in contradistinction to a government
established by the dominant country; as, home rule in
Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of
Parliament.
{Home ruler}, one who favors or advocates home rule.
{Home run} (Baseball), a complete circuit of the bases made
before the batted ball is returned to the home base.
{Home stretch} (Sport.), that part of a race course between
the last curve and the winning post.
{Home thrust}, a well directed or effective thrust; one that
wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal
attack.
The disciples went away again to their own home.
--John xx. 10.
Home is the sacred refuge of our life. --Dryden.
Home! home! sweet, sweet home! There's no place like
home. --Payne.
2. One's native land; the place or country in which one
dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.
``Our old home [England].'' --Hawthorne.
3. The abiding place of the affections, especially of the
domestic affections.
He entered in his house -- his home no more, For
without hearts there is no home. --Byron.
4. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first
found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat;
as, the home of the pine.
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. --Tennyson.
Flandria, by plenty made the home of war. --Prior.
5. A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for
outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave;
the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling
place of the soul.
Man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go
about the streets. --Eccl. xii.
5.
6. (Baseball) The home base; he started for home.
{At home}.
(a) At one's own house, or lodgings.
(b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at
home.
(c) Prepared to receive callers.
{Home department}, the department of executive
administration, by which the internal affairs of a country
are managed. [Eng.]
{To be at home on any subject}, to be conversant or familiar
with it.
{To feel at home}, to be at one's ease.
{To make one's self at home}, to conduct one's self with as
much freedom as if at home.
Syn: Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.