Home

hōm, n. one's house or country: place of constant residence: the residence of a family: the seat, as of war: a charitable institution where domestic comforts are given to the destitute.— adj. pertaining to one's dwelling or country: domestic: close: severe.— adv. pertaining to one's habitation or country: close: closely: to the point: effectively.— adjs. Home′-born , native, not foreign; Home′bound , homeward-bound; Home′-bred , bred at home: native: domestic: plain: unpolished; Home′-brewed , brewed at home or for home use.— n. Home′-farm , the farm near the home or mansion of a gentleman.— adjs. Home′felt , felt in one's own breast: inward: private; Home′-grown , produced in one's own country, not imported; Home′-keep′ing , staying at home; Home′le , without a home.— n. Home′le ne ,— adv. Home′lily .— n. Home′line .— adjs. Home′ly , pertaining to home: familiar: plain; Home′-made , made at home: made in one's own country: plain.— n. Hom′er , a pigeon trained to fly home from a distance.— adj. Home′sick , sick or grieved at separation from home.— n. Home′sickne .— adj. Home′spun , spun or wrought at home: not made in foreign countries: plain: inelegant.— n. cloth made at home.— ns. Home′stall , Home′stead , the place of a mansion-house: the enclosures immediately connected with it: original station.— advs. Home′ward , Home′wards , towards home: towards one's habitation or country.— adj. in the direction of home.— adj. Home′ward-bound , bound homeward or to one's native land.— adjs. Hom′ing , having a tendency to return home; Hom′y , home-like.— Home circuit , the south-eastern circuit of A ize, including the home counties (except Middle sex), also Cambridge shire, Norfolk, and Suffolk; Home counties , the counties over and into which London has extended—Middle sex, Hertfordshire, E ex, Kent, Surrey; Home Department , that part of government which is concerned with the maintenance of the internal peace of the United Kingdom—its headquarters the Home Office , its official head the Home Secretary ; Home rule , a form of self-government claimed by Ireland, with a separate parliament for the management of internal affairs.— At home , in one's own house: at ease: familiar: a phrase signifying that a family will be at home at a fixed date, and ready to receive visitors—as a n. —a reception; Bring home to , to prove to, in such a way that there is no way of escaping the conclusion: to impre upon; Eat out of house and home , to live at the expense of another so as to ruin him; Long home , the grave; Make one's self at home , to be as free and unrestrained as when in one's own house; Pay home , to strike to the quick: to retaliate. [A.S. hám ; Dut. and Ger. heim , Goth. haims .]