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Domestic; pertaining to one's dwelling-place or country; - opposed to foreign; as, home manufactures, home products. - Pointed; poignant; close; direct; as, a home-thrust. ( Naut .) Used on shipboard of anything that is close in its place. It is applied to the sheets of the sails, the shot and cartridge in a gun, and any article of stowage. adv. To one's own habitation or country; as, in the expre ions go home, carry home, he came home, . Closely to the point; to the proper position or place of application; as, our sins come home to us, to drive a sword-thrust home. "Accuse him home and home."-Shaks. To come home. ( Naut .) To become parted from its hold of the ground by violence of wind or sea; -said of an anchor. To haul home the sheets of a sail. ( Naut .) To haul the clues taut to the sheave-hole. NOTE. - Home is used to form various self-explaining compound words; as, home -brewed, home -made, homesick, . Home, HENRY, (LORD KAIMES,) a Scotch judge and ele- gant writer, в. 1696. Не wrote E ays upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities (1764), E ays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion , Historical Law, The Principles of Equity , The Elements of Criticism (3 vols. 8vo.), The History of Man. D.1782. Home, in Colorado , a post-office of Larimer co. Home, in Illinois , a post-office of Wayne co. Home, in Kansas , a post-village of Marshall co., on the St. J. & G. I. R. R. -A township of Nemaha co. Home, in Michigan , a township of Montcalm co. -A township of Newaygo co. Home, in Minnesota , a post-township of Brown co. Home, in Pennsylvania , a post-village of Indiana co., about 10 m. N. of Indiana. Home, in South Carolina, a post-office of Union co. Home, in Tenne ee , a post-village of Greene co. Home Bay, a small bay on the N. of Cumber land Homage, (hom'āj,) n. [Fr. hommage , from L. Lat. homa- gium , or hominium , from homo , man, the usual term by which the va al or dependant of a prince is designated in the old writers of the middle ages.] The symbolical Island, British North America; Lat. 68° 30′ N., Lon. acknowledgment of dependence due from a va al to a feudal lord or superior when invested with a fief, or obtaining it by succe ion. In the earliest periods of the feudal system, fealty and homage appear to be confounded; but in later times the distinction was clearly established, and fealty might sometimes be du where homage was not. H. was either "homagium ligeum," liege H. , by which full and unreserved allegiance was rendered; or "homagium simplex," simple H. , a mere acknowledgment of feudal superiority, with a saving or exception of the rights of other feudal lords. The one 68° W. Home'-born, a. Native; natural; indigenous; as, "home-born harm." - Donne. -Domestic; not exotic. Home'-bound, a. See HOMEWARD-BOUND. Home-bred, a . Bred at home; native; natural; do- mestic; indigenous; as, "home-bred evil." (Spenser.) - Rude; unpolished; plain; unsophisticated; uncultivated. Home City, in Ohio , a village of Hamilton co., on the Ohio river, about 10 m. below Cincinnati. Home'dahl, in Minnesota , a P. O. of Faribault co. "Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits." Homele , a. Without a home; destitute of shelter. Home'lily, adv . Plainly; rudely; inelegantly. Homeline , n. Quality of being homely; domes ticity. Plainne of features or personal appearance; want of beauty or attractive looks. - Plainne or bluntne of manners; rudene ; coarsene ; brusquerie. "Homer has opened a great field of raillery... by the homeline of some of his sentiments."- Add is on.