HOMEn.
[Gr. a house, a close place, or place or rest.]
1. A dwelling house; the house or place in which one resides. He was not at home.
Then the disciples went away again to their own home. John 20:10.
Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
2. One's own country. Let affairs at home be well managed by the administration.
3. The place of constant residence; the seat.
Flandria, by plenty, made the home of war.
4. The grave; death; or a future state.
Man goeth to his long home. Ecclesiastes 12:5.
5. The present state of existence.
Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5:6.
HOMEa.
Close; severe; poignant; as a home thrust.
HOMEadv.
[This is merely elliptical; to being omitted.]
1. To one's own habitation; as in the phrases, go home, come home, bring home, carry home.
2. To one's own country. Home is opposed to abroad, or in a foreign country. My brother will return home in the first ship from India.
3. Close; closely; to the point; as, this consideration comes home to our interest, that is, it nearly affects it. Drive the nail home, that is, drive it close.
To haul home the top-sail sheets, in seamen's language, is to draw the bottom of the top-sail close to the yard-arm by means of the sheets.
An anchor is said to come home, when it loosens from the ground by the violence of the wind or current, etc.