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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Home \Home\, n. In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal; as: a (Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands. b (Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also the player. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Home \Home\, n. (Zo["o]l.) See {Homelyn}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Home \Home\, adv 1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home. 2. Close closely. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Home \Home\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Home \Home\ (110), n. [OE. hom, ham, AS h[=a]m; akin to OS hem, D. & G. heim, Sw hem, Dan. hiem, Icel. heimr abode, world, heima home, Goth. haims village, Lith. k["e]mas, and perh. to Gr.? village, or to E. hind a peasant; cf Skr. ksh?ma abode, place of rest, security, kshi to dwell. ?, ? ] 1. One's own dwelling place the house in which one lives; esp., the house in which one lives with his family; the habitual abode of one's family; also one's birthplace. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Homelyn \Home"lyn\, n. [Scot. hommelin.] (Zo["o]l) The European sand ray ({Raia maculata}); -- called also {home}, {mirror ray}, and {rough ray}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: home adj 1: (sport) used of your own ground; "a home game" [syn: {home(a)}] [ant: {away}] 2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are "my home town" 3: relating to or being a place of origin or headquarters; "the home office" 4: relating to or taking place in a home or house or household; "home cooking"; "home furnishings"; "home care for the elderly" [syn: {home(a)}] 5: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: {home(a)}, {interior(a)}, {internal}, {national}] n 1: where you live; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [syn: {place}] 2: a physical structure (e.g., a house) that someone is living in "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: {dwelling}, {domicile}, {abode}, {habitation}, {dwelling house}] 3: the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" 4: an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" 5: an institution where people are cared for "a home for the elderly" [syn: {nursing home}, {rest home}] 6: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: {base}] 7: (baseball) a rubber slab that must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn: {home plate}, {plate}] 8: place where something began and flourished; "the U.S. is the home of basketball" 9: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: {family}, {household}, {house}, {menage}] adv 1: at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" 2: on or to the point aimed at "the arrow struck home" 3: to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" v 1: provide with or send to a home 2: return home accurately from a long distance, as of some birds; "homing pigeons" From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Home, KS Zip code(s): 66438 Home, PA Zip code(s): 15747 Home, WA Zip code(s): 98349
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