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<p><b>3.</b> <def>To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; <as>as, to drive a nail <ex>home</ex>; to ram a cartridge <ex>home</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote>Wear thy good rapier bare and put it <b>home</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Home</i> is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, <i>home</i>-brewed, <i>home</i>-built, <i>home-grown</i>, <i>etc.</i></note>

<cs><col>To bring home</col>. <cd>See under <er>Bring</er>.</cd> -- <col>To come home</col>.<sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To touch or affect personally. See under <er>Come</er>.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an anchor.</cd> -- <col>To haul home the sheets of a sail</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to haul the clews close to the sheave hole.</cd></cs>

<i>Totten.</i>

<h1>Homeborn</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 700 first paragraph, a portion of one starting on p. 699,>

<hw>Home"born`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Native; indigenous; not foreign.</def>

<i>Donne. Pope.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to the home or family.</def>

<blockquote>Fireside enjoyments, <b>homeborn</b> happiness. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Home-bound</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 700 first paragraph, a portion of one starting on p. 699,>

<hw>Home"-bound`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Kept at home.</def>

<h1>Home-bred</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 700 first paragraph, a portion of one starting on p. 699,>

<hw>Home"-bred`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Bred at home; domestic; not foreign.</def> " <i>Home-bred</i> mischief."

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>Benignity and <b>home-bred</b> sense. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not polished; rude; uncultivated.</def>

<blockquote>Only to me <b>home-bred</b> youths belong. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Home-coming</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 700 first paragraph, a portion of one starting on p. 699,>

<hw>Home-com`ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Return home.</def>

<blockquote>Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn <b>hoom-cominge</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Home-driven</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 700 first paragraph, a portion of one starting on p. 699,>

<hw>Home"-driv`en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.</def>

<h1>Home-dwelling</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 700 first paragraph, a portion of one starting on p. 699,>

<hw>Home"-dwell`ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Keeping at home.</def>

<h1>Home-felt</h1> <Xpage=<-- p. 700 first paragraph, a portion of one starting on p. 699,>

<hw>Home"-felt`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. "<i>Home-felt</i> quiet.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

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