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home(1) (iou)



home adverb. OE.
[Orig. accus. of HOME noun, as the case of destination after a verb of motion.]
To one's home; to the house, district, country, etc., where one lives. Also, to one's family circle. OE.
D. H. Lawrence He worked automatically till it was time to go home. M. Callaghan He liked to explain that he was doing well. He wrote home about it.
b. To one's grave. E16.
c. With ellipsis of verb: go, drive, etc., home. L16.
Home, James, and don't spare the horses.
To one's normal or natural condition; to one's senses, right mind, etc. E16-M17.
F. Quarles Call home thy selfe: Inspect thy selfe anew.
To the mark aimed at, to the maximum extent of penetration etc., (esp. in drive home, hammer home, press home, ram home, etc.). Freq. fig., into a person's feelings or consciousness; formerly more gen., fully, effectively. M16.
Shakespeare Anthony & Cleopatra Speak to me home; mince not the general tongue. Defoe The witnesses swear so home against you. J. Fowles I slammed the door and got the bolts home. P. Ackroyd She decided not to press home her advantage. Survival Weaponry Screw the magazine cap fully home.
b. Nautical. Directly to the shore. L18.
Expr. the result of motion: arrived at one's home after an absence. Also fig., successfully arrived at, or within sight of, the end of a difficult enterprise, (more emphatically home and dry, (Austral.) home and dried). L16.
E. Bowen Elsie came inhome from a tennis party.
b. With no implication of motion: in one's home, at home. N. Amer. M19.
A. Cooke He would give his..servants the sternest orders that he was home to nobody.
To or arrived in the mother country (from a colony or overseas possession). E17.
J. Gairdner The Regent Bedford..wrote home to the government in England.
Nautical. Towards or into the ship. Also, with ref. to an anchor: away from its hold, so as to drag. E17.
Sports & Games. To or arrived at the home (HOME noun 7) or goal. L18.
Dumfries Courier Hardy Lad is the new racing hero..after romping home at 28-1 odds.
Phrases: bring oneself home recoup one's (financial) losses. bring something home to make (a person) fully aware of something. call home dial. call the marriage banns of. come home = bring oneself home above. come home to (a) become fully realized by; (b) touch or affect intimately. come home to roost: see ROOST noun1. come short home fail to reach one's objective, come to grief. down home: see DOWN preposition. down-home: see DOWN-. go home spec. (dial.) die. nothing to write home about, not much to write home about, etc., colloq. nothing etc. to boast about, nothing etc. special. till the cows come home: see COW noun1. tumble home: see TUMBLE verb 11. when a person's ship comes home: see SHIP noun 1.