home
     adj 1: used of your own ground; "a home game" [syn: home]
            [ant: away]
     2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots
        are; "my home town"
     3: 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,
         interior, internal, national]
     n 1: where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to
          my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place
          or mine?" [syn: place]
     2: housing 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: 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]
     8: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter
        stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to
        score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"
        [syn: home plate, home base, plate]
     9: place where something began and flourished; "the United
        States is the home of basketball"
     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; "homing
        pigeons"

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.

Home \Home\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
   See Homelyn.

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.

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.

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.

Homelyn \Home"lyn\, n. [Scot. hommelin.] (Zo["o]l)
   The European sand ray (Raia maculata); -- called also
   home, mirror ray, and rough ray.

Home, KS
  Zip code(s): 66438
Home, PA
  Zip code(s): 15747
Home, WA
  Zip code(s): 98349