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homen.1adj. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian hēm a person's house or abode, homestead, dwelling (West Frisian hiem yard, farmyard), Old Dutch heim homestead, dwelling (in place names and compounds; Middle Dutch heem , heim , Dutch (now rare) heem homestead, dwelling, a person's house or abode, the place where a person lives or was raised), Old Saxon hēm house (Middle Low German hēm a person's house or abode, the place where a person lives or was raised, native country, homeland), Middle High German heim abode, residence, homestead, dwelling (German Heim ; the sense ‘native country, homeland’ is expressed by Heimat (see Urheimat n.)), early Scandinavian (runic: Sweden) aimi (dative singular), em (accusative singular), (runic: Denmark) him- (in compounds) homestead, abode, world, Old Icelandic heimr dwelling, abode (chiefly in compounds denoting mythological parts of the universe, e.g. Jǫtunheimr , lit. ‘abode of giants’, Niflheimr , lit. ‘abode of mist’), (in compounds) village, (more usually) earth, world, universe (with the semantic development, compare Russian mir , which is attested from an early date in the senses ‘community, commune’ and ‘world’: see mir n.2, Mir n.4), Old Swedish hēm , heem a person's house or abode (Swedish hem ), Old Danish hiem , hēm a person's house or abode (Danish hjem ), also (with different suffixes and different (feminine) gender) Old High German heima abode, residence, homestead, dwelling, native country, homeland, Gothic haims village; further etymology uncertain and disputed: perhaps < the same Indo-European base as Early Irish cóim , Welsh cu beloved, dear, Lithuanian šeima family, kin, Latvian saime occupants of a homestead collectively, Russian Church Slavonic sěm′ person, Old Russian sěm′ja family (Russian sem′ja ), (with added suffix) Old Prussian seimīns , Lithuanian šeimyna occupants of a homestead collectively, all formations with -m -suffix < the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek κεῖσθαι to lie, classical Latin cīvis citizen (see civic adj.), and the first element of the Germanic compounds cited at hird n. (ancient Greek κώμη village (see Comarch n.) is probably unrelated, although it has sometimes been regarded as showing a cognate with different ablaut grade); perhaps further related to Old Prussian caymis village, Lithuanian kiemas farmyard, farm, homestead, village, kaimas village, rural (as opposed to urban) area, Latvian ciems occupants of a homestead collectively, homestead, village, although the nature of the relationship is uncertain. In Old English a strong masculine; the inflection of the word frequently shows an endingless dative singular hām (in e.g. æt hām : see at home at Phrases 1a) as reflex of an original locative form, beside the regular dative form hāme . The β. forms show the regular southern development of the reflex of Old English ā (see O n.1). Forms with initial y- show development of a palatal on-glide (see discussion at earth n.1). Forms with initial w- , wh- , or hw- show development of a velar on-glide (see discussion at oat n.). See J. Wright Eng. Dial. Gram. (1905) §123. The Middle English form heem, attested once in MS Hengwrt of Chaucer's Reeve's Tale 4032, probably shows a loan < early Scandinavian (specifically from East Norse; compare the Danish and Swedish cognates), rather than an unexplained phonological development within English. See S. C. P. Horobin in Notes & Queries 245 (2000) 16–18. The word is a common place-name element. As a second element in settlement names, it is apparently chiefly attested in names of the early period and sometimes seems to be associated with the very earliest period of settlement; it now usually appears in the form -ham (which shows shortening of original Old English long ā in unstressed position as the second element of compounds) and is probably often to be interpreted in sense A. 1 (compare ham n.3), as e.g. in Dæccanhaam , Essex (a693; now Dagenham). In early use, it is sometimes combined with another early place-name element, -inga- , genitive plural of -ing suffix3, e.g. in Godmunddingaham , East Riding, Yorkshire (8th cent. in manuscripts of Bede Eccl. Hist. (a731); apparently now Goodmanham). As a place-name element it is often difficult to distinguish from ham n.2 See further J. M. Dodgson in Anglo-Saxon England 2 (1973) 1–50, B. Cox in Jrnl. Eng. Place-Name Soc. 8 (1976) 12–66, M. Gelling & A. Cole Landscape of Place-names (2000) 47–9. In later place-name formations chiefly in field names, such as (the widespread) Homefield , e.g. Le Homfeld , East Barnet, Hertfordshire (1267), Homfeld , Middlesex (1274), Homfeld , Hankerton, Wiltshire (c1300), etc.; compare senses A. 2 and B. 1a. With sense A. 6 perhaps compare the attestation of terms for animals in place names such as Phincham , Norfolk (1086; now Fincham; compare finch n.), Martham , Norfolk (1086; now Martham; compare Old English mearþ : see marter n.1); however, these are more likely to refer to places of human habitation frequented by the named animals. The word shows considerable semantic overlap with house n.1 A. n.1 I. The place where a person or animal dwells. †1. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town, village, or collection of dwellings > [noun] eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) ii. xiv. 146 He rad betweoh his hamum oðþe be tweonum [OE Corpus Oxf. tunum; L. inter ciuitates siue uillas aut prouincias suas] mid his þegnum. eOE (Parker) anno 900 Æðelwald sæt binnan þæm ham mid þæm monnum þe him to gebugon & hæfde ealle þa geatu forworht in to him & sæde þæt he wolde oðer oððe þær libban oððe þær licgan. eOE (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) ix. 18 He Romane secgan geherde þæt on sume tide Troiaburg ofertogen hæfde lega leohtost, lengest burne hama under hefonum. OE (Parker) anno 1001 Foran ða þanon west oþ þæt hy coman to Defenan..& forbærndon Tegntun & eac fela oðra godra hama. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 9707 Þa wes Verolam a swiðe kine-wurðe hom. ?a1300 Maximian (Digby) l. 239 in C. Brown (1932) 99 (MED) I rod þoru-out rome, Richest alre home. the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > a landed property or estate OE (Northumbrian) xix. 22 Erat enim habens multas possessiones : wæs forðon hæbbend monigra hamas uel æhta. OE Will of King Ælfred (Sawyer 1507) in F. E. Harmer (1914) 17 Ic an..minre yldstan dehter þæne ham æt Welewe; & þære medemestan æt Clearna & æt Cendefer; & þære gingestan þone ham æt Welig & æt Æsctune & æt Cippanhamme. OE (Claud.) xlvii. 20 Iosep bohte eal Egypta land, þa hy cypton ealle heora hamas for þæs hungres micelnysse. lOE Royal Charter: Æðelstan to Holy Trinity, Winchester (Sawyer 427) in A. J. Robertson (1956) 50 Se ðæt sæ bisceop a þæ ðær þonne sie him do hira fullan fostær butan hira beodlandum of his bisceophamum [L. de suis propriis episcopalibus villis]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 9748 Ne læten ȝe næuere þas hæðene bruken eoure hames [c1300 Otho homes], þæs ilke awedde hundes walden eouwere londes. c1450 (c1405) (BL Add. 41666) (1936) l. 602 (MED) He taughte þaym..þaire tithing to bringe Of al manier grene..Of fructe and of floxe in felde and in homes. 2. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun] OE (Northumbrian) xiv. 2 In domo patris mei mansiones multae sunt : in hus fadores mines hamas..meniga sint [OE West Saxon Gospels: Corpus Cambr. manega eardungstowa]. OE 275 Ic her geþolian sceal þinga æghwylces.., þæs ic seolfa weold, þonne ic on heofonum ham staðelode. lOE (Rochester) iii. 3 Gif cyning æt mannes ham drincæþ, & ðær man lyswæs hwæt gedo. c1275 in C. Brown (1932) 50 Al hit wolle agon—His lond & his hus & his hom. c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Otho) (1963) l. 4998 Þe king..heom an hond solde mochil deal of londe al aboute Catenas, þar hii homes makede. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xii. l. 46 God is nat in þat hom. (Harl. 221) 244 Hoome, or dwelly[n]ge place, mancio. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 4902 Ȝit was a mynstir on þe mounte... Þis hame at houes on þis hill was in þe hiȝe est. 1490 W. Caxton tr. (1885) xxviii. 588 All the sike..retourne to theyr home in goode helthe. 1578 J. Rolland 156 The Emprice..Maid hir to pas vnto hir Father hame. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. i. 123 I best though[t] it fit To answere from our home. a1667 A. Cowley Elegy in (1810) VII. 61 There banish'd Ovid had a lasting home. 1735 J. Morgan tr. P. de la Motte 140 Those good Fathers, separating, conducted even smal Companies of those Slaves to their own Homes. 1749 H. Fielding IV. x. ii. 7 The half-drunk Clown..staggers through the Church-yard, or rather Charnel-yard, to his Home. 1849 T. B. Macaulay I. iii. 351 That attachment which every man naturally feels for his home. 1871 E. A. Freeman IV. xvii. 81 [He] returned to the home which, almost alone among princely homes, supplied a model for lowlier homes to follow. 1882 Dec. 58/1 A lovely drive..is bordered with homes, many of which make pretensions to much more than comfort. 1918 Mar. 64/1 Wallpaper emits a warmth, a cheer, a restfulness that makes a house a home. 1930 31 Jan. Wilson wounded Elliott and his wife in a dispute Wednesday at the Elliott home in Mendota. 1955 A. Ross 37 More houses (or ‘homes’ as a house is kindly called here) are needed. 1973 18 May 1/6 Motorway schemes..often wipe out considerable numbers of reasonable homes in accessible areas. 1991 F. King (1992) vi. 41 ‘You have a lovely home,’ he ventured, looking around him. 2002 A. Behrman (2003) viii. 211 That night, when I return to my new home, I double-lock the door. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home > one's home with associated feelings 1546 J. Heywood i. iv. sig. B Home is homely, though it be poore in syght. 1600 N. Breton 5 I should easily make thee finde the sweete of the old prouerbe, that home is home, be it neuer so homely. 1606 W. Birnie xix. sig. F3 That being preuented by death..he should neuer see home. 1770 J. Andrews II. xl. 72 The Pleasures of Home, are discarded to make Room for Pastimes that contribute much more to dissipate and confuse the Mind. 1782 Gulliver's Lect. in R. Johnson I. v. 9 We have passed our time very agreeably; yet I must own, that there is nothing like home and my books. 1814 Ld. Byron iii. xviii. 89 Oh! what can sanctify the joys of home? 1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 24 Jan. in (1980) 50 This miserable life of wandering makes a three days' residence seem like home. 1882 A. W. Ward vii. 223 He was most English in that love of home to which he was never weary of testifying. 1920 Oct. 126/1 He still calls Claysville home, as does also John Miller, who holds down the good old farm. 1957 J. Braine xxx. 237 Home would be an abstract notion—Father, Mother, safety, hugs, and hot milk. 1994 Jan. 24/1 The place felt more like home to me than the big white duplex where I actually lived. 2002 Summer 112/2 I live in different hotels in different cities, out of suitcases. I miss home a lot. 1838 Aug. 346 We wish..to have the school room and those who superintend and direct it, viewed not as adjuncts to, but as substitutes for, the home, the domestic circle, and the parent. 1884 J. Hall 69 Such spiritual irrigation we must use in the home for the good of one another. 1905 15 Dec. 5/2 (advt.) You can get wooden articles and ornaments of use in the home, ready traced for burning. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse iii. 36 If there's one thing that gives me the pip, it's unpleasantness in the home. 1957 E. S. Bomback i. 9 We live in an age of colour-consciousness. This applies not only to clothes..it applies to the home in the form of gaily coloured plastics. 1991 Winter 45/1 They are subject to harassment on the job and violence in the home. 2007 V. Smith ix. 297 Prince Albert's death from ‘bowel fever’ (typhoid), supposedly caught from the antique sewer system at Windsor Castle, frighteningly emphasized the importance of good sanitary provision in the home. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household 1876 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ I. ix. 178 Fanny shall be my assistant, Mills our housekeeper, so the old home shall not be broken up. 1894 H. Drummond 390 Sacred and happy homes..are the surest guarantees for the moral progress of a nation. 1922 W. B. Tucker ii. vi. 77 Then the fires Roared over fat pine knots in big box stoves; And all the home was glad. 1975 R. S. Weiss ix. 168 In this chapter..I describe the changed structure of the one-parent home. 2007 G. Taylor in T. Middleton 31/1 For most of the next fifteen years that home was in turmoil. Husband and wife fought... Harvey was imprisoned for debt. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > of a house 1887 No. 34. 369 The creditor relies..on the power of selling up the ‘home’. 1888 16 Oct. 3/2 He emigrated to America, leaving his wife and children with a home of furniture. 1919 C. Collins 3 Off went the cart with the home packed in it, I walked be-hind with my old cock lin-net. 1954 ‘C. Hare’ 106 ‘Mr. Todman..what was you planning to do with Mrs. Pink's home?’ Todman looked disdainfully round at the ‘home’ of his late tenant, the furnishings whose quality had struck Horace Wendon so favourably. 2006 L. Soderlind ii. 155 They packed up their home and shipped it all to Billings. the world > life > death > [noun] > state or condition of OE Cynewulf 92 Ic freonda beþearf liðra on lade, þonne ic sceal langne ham, eardwic uncuð, ana gesece læt [read gesecean, lætan] me on laste lic, eorðan dæl, wælreaf wunigean weormum to hroðre. OE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 421) in A. S. Napier (1883) 265 We wæron þider gehatene and gelaðede to ðam halgan ham and to ðam cynelican friðstole, þær drihten Crist wunað. OE Vision of Leofric in (2012) 63 550 Feowertyne nihton ær his forðsiðe he foresæde þonne [read þone] dæg þe he sceolde cuman to Cofantreo to his langan hame þær he on restet. c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1938) 16 (MED) O helle, deaðes hus..heatel ham & heard wan of all wontreaðes. c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) l. 38 in C. Horstmann (1887) 463 (MED) Deiden fader and Moder..Men..to heore longue home brouȝten heom ful sone. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 9195 To þy long home, sone shalt þou wende. c1480 (a1400) Prol. 32 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) I. 2 Quhen he sal cume til his lang ham. a1500 (Marchm.) (1877) I. 386 To graith thaire gait on to thair langest hame. 1535 Eccl. xii. 5 Man goeth to his longe home. 1594 W. Shakespeare i. i. 83 These that I bring vnto their latest home . View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert (rev. ed.) 204 A deadly flux..brought that religious Gentleman..in the vigour of his age, to an immortall home. 1667 J. Milton x. 1085 Till we end In dust, our final rest and native home . View more context for this quotation 1713 Bp. G. Burnet 175 The last Agonies, the fixed Eyes, and the dismal Ruttle,..tell all those about the Dying-Bed, that he..is now going to his Home. 1793 A. Seward (1811) III. 330 You would be sorryish to hear, that poor Moll Cobb..is gone to her long home. 1833 I. Taylor iii. 70 Whatever is spurious is marked already for oblivion, and moves on to its home. 1861 C. Reade II. xiii. 266 Here's a venomous old toad! he knows a kick from this foot would send him to his last home. 1932 B. Devoto viii. 194 Man had always been infinitely less important than man's eternal home. 1999 Dec. 54/1 At 1.45pm the scuttling charges were fired..but it was almost three hours before she went to her long home. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > place to which one belongs OE 117 Uton we hycgan hwær se [read we] ham agen, ond þonne geþencan hu we þider cumen. OE (1932) cvi. 35 Þær he [sc. God] hungrium ham staðelude [L. collocavit illic esurientes], and þær gesetton swylce ceastre, þær hi eard namon awa syþþan. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 260 Þepilegrim in worl des wei þach he ga forðwart towart þe ham of heouene. a1400 in C. Brown (1924) 114 (MED) Loue, loue, where shalt þou wone?..For cristis herte þat was þin hoome—He is deed, now hast þou noone. a1500 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Lansd.) (1880) l. 17 The wrestlyng of this world axith a fall Heer is noon hoom heer is but wildirnesse. a1500 (a1460) (1994) I. xiv. 164 (MED) In euery place he [sc. Christ] shall haue hame. 1548 f. xxxviiiv He subdewed Wales..and broughte that vnruly parte to his olde home and aunciente degree. 1567 N. Throckmorton Let. to Eliz. 9 Aug. in P. F. Tytler (1864) III. 270 They [sc. the Hamiltons] account but the little king betwixt them and home, who may die. 1598 W. Shakespeare iv. i. 57 A randeuous, a home to flie vnto. 1662 T. Arundell 36 Be thou my help in want, my strength in weakness, my joy in sorrow, my comfort in grief, my riches in poverty, my palace in Prison, my home in banishment, [etc.]. 1777 H. Blair xv. 442 God has tinged them all with vanity, on purpose to make him feel, that this is not his rest; that here he is not in his proper place, nor arrived at his true home. 1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. ii. xv. 313 Wherever a woman has a tongue, there Mrs. Grundy has a home. 1884 Mar. 315 In the Church of England he found a satisfying home. 1940 H. Kuttner in Nov. 19/1 You are space-born, Ardath. You cannot quite realize that only on a planet can a man find a home. 1977 A. Shaw (new ed.) viii. 162 52d St. was home if you played jazz. 2005 M. Zwerin xviii. 192 I never get nervous before going onstage because the stage is home to me. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > homeland or native land the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > [noun] > Britain OE 457 Ne ðær ænig becwom herges to hame, ac behindan beleac wyrd mid wæge. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iii. xxxviii. 258 Þa sona æfter þon seo reðe þeod Langbeardna wæs gelæded of þam hame hire eardunge [L. de vagina suae habitationis]. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) l. 1751 (MED) Hwat, miȝte [a1300 Jesus Oxf. nuȝte] ȝe..his hom! He wuneþ at portes hom, At one tune ine dorsete. c1450 (c1350) (Bodl.) (1929) l. 46 (MED) He wolde fare wiþ his folk in a faire wise To biholden here hom and non harm wirke. 1598 Bp. J. Hall iv. vi. 48 He..Wishes for home a thousand sithes a day. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. i. 31 Till then faire boy Will I not thinke of home, but follow Armes. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. v. 64 That presently you take your way for home . View more context for this quotation 1755 G. Washington Apr. My command was reduced, under a pretence of an order from home. 1770 J. Banks 3 Sept. (1962) II. 145 The greatest part of them [sc. the ship's company] were now pretty far gone with the longing for home which the Physicians have gone so far as to esteem a disease under the name of Nostalgia. 1837 (1843) 92 Home always means England; nobody calls India home. 1842 Suppl. II. 40 In accordance with instructions from home. 1886 J. A. Froude (ed. 2) 78 The Controller..had many questions to ask about ‘home’ and what was going there. 1889 6 Apr. 2/5 I have every reason to believe that the proposed New Zealand team will go home at the end of this season. 1915 R. Brooke 15 A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. 1942 A. L. Haskell p. xxi England is automatically referred to as Home, even in such a common paradox as ‘I have never been Home’. 1988 M. MacMillan iii. 46 It was considered extremely important to keep as much of Home alive as possible. 2001 A. F. Khater v. 114 ‘Home’ had changed, and romanticized images were quickly dispelled. Politically, Mount Lebanon was in the midst of both continuation and change. the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] > dwelling place or shelter OE Homily: De Sancto Iohanne (Corpus Cambr. 198) in (1885) 8 478 Þæt fugelcynn eall ferdon heom hamweard, ælc to his earde.] a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lxxxvii. 1237 Tame swyne knowen here owne hous and home and lerne to come þerto wiþouten guyde. 1666 G. Alsop 10 The Hogs..do disfrequent home more then the rest of Creatures that are look'd upon as tame. 1760 J. Beattie tr. Virgil 2nd Pastoral in 125 Th' untended goats shall to their homes repair, And to the milker's hand the loaded udder bear. 1774 O. Goldsmith IV. 32 It continues for some hours at a distance from home, until the alarm be past away. 1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. i, in 1 170 Foam, Which the leviathan hath lash'd From his unfathomable home. 1854 F. C. Woodworth 84 In a small family in the south part of Portsmouth, N. H., there was a parrot who had found a home for many years, and had become a pet of the family. 1864 J. G. Wood (title) Homes without Hands, being a Description of the Habitations of Animals. 1909 G. Stein 67 Stray dogs and cats Anna always kept until she found them homes. 1936 C. F. M. Swynnerton in 84 520 Home..that portion of the tsetse-habitat used by the tsetse..for both resting and breeding. 1962 R. M. Gordon & M. M. J. Lavoipierre xxix. 184 Such centres or foci are referred to as ‘permanent breeding places’, ‘primary foci’ or ‘homes’. 2002 Winter 11/2 The Sociable weaver..builds a gargantuan nest in the trees, which becomes home for up to 3000 birds. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] 1829 May 216/2 It is of the utmost importance that a generous public..should provide some general Sailors' Home, for all the Sailors who come from abroad. 1829 May 217/1 They [sc. sailors] will gratefully appreciate the importance of a Home being provided to rescue them from immorality, and provide them with a hiding-place from the wind and a covert from the storm. 1847 C. Dickens 28 Oct. (1981) V. 177 I am in a state of great anxiety to talk to you about your ‘Home’ (that is the name I propose to give it) with which I have been very busy for some time, and which will be ready for the reception of its inmates..on Saturday fortnight. 1863 S. Low 31 The Home for Confirmed Invalids. 1897 282 Dr. Barnardo's Homes for Orphan Waifs. a1948 D. Welch (1951) 34 I remembered that he was Grace's mad friend who had just been let out of a home. 1972 T. Keneally vi. 47 Mrs Hayes..got her kitchen-maids from a home for wayward girls in Sydney. 1994 24 Nov. (OnLine section) 2/3 The finalists sent in plans for everything from a dogs' home to an extension to the United Nations building. 2000 L. Coady viii. 150 The soft-hearted son could not bear the notion of putting dear Mother in a home. II. Extended and elliptical senses. 8. the world > space > place > [noun] > where a thing is native or most common c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 3550 Illc mann shule cumenn ham..inn till rihht crisstenndom..In till þatt soþfasstnessess ham. Þatt mann wass shapenn inne. 1603 J. Davies 217 (margin) Hell, the home of Pride. 1687 J. Norris 39 Come we'l e'n to our Country Seat repair The Native home of Innocence and Love. 1706 M. Prior 315 Flandria, by plenty made the home of War. 1871 E. A. Freeman IV. xviii. 125 The return of the Conqueror was ushered in by the destruction of the ecclesiastical home of the nation. 1874 J. R. Green vii. §5. 386 The South and the West still remained..the great homes of mining and manufacturing activity. 1886 H. M. Posnett iv. ii. 258 Sicily, then, was the real home of bucolic poetry. 1914 7 Aug. 378 Oxford has often been called ‘the home of lost causes’. 1962 T. Blume in R. G. Reisner 58 Kansas City is the home of jazz as New Orleans is of Dixieland. 2000 1 Jan. a20 (caption) Once the home of Valley Girl culture, the Sherman Oaks Galleria in Southern California is being demolished to make way for new construction. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. ix. 461 Þise signes beþ iclepid housis, for þey beþ þe home and wonynge place of planetis. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 27 Þai..Of þe ordere of þat odde home þat ouer þe aire hingis Knew þe kynd, & þe curses of þe clere sternys. 1759 Aug. 383/1 This once blooming, this now fading rose, Fresh from its stalk, my bosom was its home. 1837 Oct. 467/1 The illustrious Franklin..tore the lightning from its home in the cloud. 1893 R. S. Ball 295 To rend this stone from the home where it was originally placed. 1896 Sept. 17/1 The destruction of the old art building which is now the museum's home, is a sad pity, but it is doubtless inevitable. 1912 1 June 761/1 The gold in the pay-streak was derived from its home in rocks at a date which preceded that of the formation and deposition of the gravel which overlies and surrounds it. 1964 29 Nov. 81/5 This building is the home of toys for ‘tykes’. Founded eight years ago, this group will repair over 3000 toys for needy families by Christmas. 1991 A. Nikiforuk x. 173 The thymus, home of those important T-cells, atrophies in hungry women and children. 2002 Jan. (East Suppl.) 57/2 Workers tipped the 27 subway cars off a floating barge and allowed them to plunge to their new homes on the continental shelf. 9. society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] > home or base 1743 E. Hoyle ii. 11 Suppose his Tables are broke at home, it will be then your Interest to open your Barr Point. 1844 S. Williams 49 One player takes his station at a spot called the ‘home’, while the others go to seek out various hiding-places in which to ensconce themselves. 1856 C. Dickens (1857) i. vii. 50 The prison children..whooped and ran, and played at hide and seek, and made the iron bars of the inner gateway ‘Home’. ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Backgammon 141 The object of the game is to bring the men round to your own ‘home’, or inner table. 1907 W. James viii. 44 The four of us played tig round the ship, with the fire buckets for home. 1979 M. Seth-Smith & R. Mortimer ii. 61 A furlong from home it seemed that Marksman..was assured of victory, but Hermit was making rapid headway. 2004 S. Gordon 33 The first team to successfully reach the other team's home and call ‘Abarisa!’ wins the game. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > baseball ground > [noun] > slab marking home base 1845 Rules Knickerbocker Base Ball Club in C. A. Peverelly (1866) 341 The bases shall be from ‘home’ to second base, forty-two paces. 1869 2 Aug. 201/1 Kern was the first to wield the willow, and, as usual, made his base, and stole home on passed balls. 1917 10 Oct. 15/4 Faber explains that he made his famous steal of third because he thought Weaver had previously reached home and was not resting on the far corner bag. 1955 Nov. 91/1 There was a time when stealing home was as common as hitting home runs with bases filled is today. 2010 J. F. Winter 110 Home to first and first to second were almost exact in length, but second to third was considerably shorter, and third to home was shorter yet. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > lacrosse > [noun] > specific positions 1869 W. G. Beers xii. 196 Home should perfect himself in frisking the ball. 1892 49 746 Outside home, and inside home. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. I. 607/1 The three Homes must be adepts in taking short and hard catches with absolute certainty. 1906 6 Dec. 528/2 Their combination in attack [was] far superior, particularly in the region of goal, where the homes worked together with rapidity and precision. 1973 4 Mar. 38/6 First home, Janet Roberts, with her dynamic underarm flick, deserved more than the two she obtained. 2000 (Nexis) 3 May b11 Kane, a regional all-American in soccer who has been playing lacrosse for two years, is a third home. 1936 4 Apr. 20/3 You'll probably laugh at the six homes I've dug up for you. Well, let's get it over... Not a bright looking lot, are they? 1960 24 Mar. 4/5 Has he not heard of the Four Aways, the Nine Homes, the ‘Easy Six’, &c.? 1983 12 May 30 (advt.) 10 homes—£3.05. 4 aways—£15.30. 1992 M. Clapson 173 The ‘Penny Points’ coupon held sway,..along with a host of other schemes such as ‘Four Homes’, ‘Four Aways’ and so on. 1999 Feb. 29/2 (advt.) There are 14 sample bets, set out on eight example coupons, for all types of bets including homes, aways, draws, correct scores, and double results. 11. slang (originally and chiefly in African-American use). the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > male friend from one's own neighbourhood 1942 19 Sept. 16/1 Lay it down, lay it down; I'm Sam D. Home just come to town.] 1944 D. Burley 109 Well, Home,..you'd better get on it if you want it. 1980 D. Berry ii. v. 51 Them Australian chicks don't wear much, Home. You gonna be tempted. 1991 M. S. Jankowski ix. 281 If me and my homes do things the way we know we can, then the cops can't touch us, they just like the song says—purple haze. 2009 D. Mouzon xlii. 138 Mouse fired 2 shots at the car that tried to kill his home, boom! boom! he knew he had to end this bang out quick. 1974 July 21/1 The first thing I did in the joint was to..learn to fight with a home piece—somebody from my neighborhood on the streets. 1984 3 Aug. b5/2 Home slice—best friend. 1985 11 Feb. 10/2 Homeboy (a friend; variations: homey, home slice, home taste, home cat, home piece, etc.) and maxin'..were born in the early seventies on Rikers Island. 1994 G. Phillips x. 136 What ya got, home skillet? 1997 N. Revoyr (1998) x. 187 Wassup, homedog? 2009 C. Holton (2010) 139 Mel was holding the pitcher up. ‘More toxins, Bimbette?’ she said to Sara. ‘Sure, Homeslice, fill it up.’ society > communication > broadcasting > radio broadcasting > [noun] > radio service > specific 1947 ‘G. Orwell’ 25 Jan. (1968) IV. 276 It was done on the Eastern and African services, but in those days I wasn't well-connected enough to crash the Home. 1965 G. Melly vi. 64 Loudspeakers in every bedroom with a control switch marked ‘Light. Home. Room Service’. 2007 D. Hendy i. 28 In January 1947..some 40 per cent of the Home's output consisted of music. 1971 xiv. 96 Cursor controls are as follows... home positions the cursor at the first character location of the first line. 1982 Nov. 333/2 All word processors designate keys for moving the cursor around any given page: up, down, sideways, or home. 1997 P. Duffett-Smith 97 The viewing direction can be altered using the arrow keys for small steps, or ‘page up’, ‘page down’, ‘home’, and ‘end’ for large steps. 2008 (Nexis) 24 July As with nearly all keys, the actions of Home and End can be modified. B. adj. (chiefly attributive). N.E.D. (1899) distinguishes between the adjective (in senses B. 1, B. 2) and the noun used in attributive compounds, remarking: ‘These uses do not differ essentially [from those treated under Compounds]; but home, being here written separately, functions as an adjective used attributively.’ 1. the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > most important society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adjective] > of or belonging to home > surrounding home 1267 in J. E. B. Gover et al. (1938) 274 Le Homfeld. a1500 in C. W. Foster (1935) III. 361 ije acre in Le Hom Crofte. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer vi. 90 The home-fields of the countries breed. 1662 in (1893) III. 17 The high way..where John Steere his howse standeth and his home share of Land. 1699 in (1881) VII. 236 A great White Oake standing neer by Mr. Benja White's home meadow. 1746 W. Ellis I. May vii. 33 My Rows of broad Beans in my Home-close. 1774 3 All the home-steads, home-closes, and ancient inclosures. 1816 J. Austen I. xii. 211 Keeping in hand the home-farm at Donwell. View more context for this quotation 1870 W. Morris 486 Over the homefield toward the wall they drew. 1886 17 Dec. 11 The home covers were shot on Friday. 1915 D. H. Lawrence i. 6 A confusion of sheds spread into the home-close. 1966 9 54 The home paddock and the night paddock which..must in the early years have been the same piece of land. 2007 B. Steel & M. Burns in E. Barclay et al. 70 A paddock some distance from his home block. society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in specific place > [adjective] 1429–30 in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 1 (1883) App. 138 in (C. 3773) XXXVII. 1 Tryacleman, Hombaker, Clokmaker. 1490 Robertus Dehytyngton, homebaker. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch 244 The hometarriers and housedoues that kept Rome still. 1630 H. Lord Ep. Ded. Informe the home-residers with the Manners and Customes of the People. 1815 tr. V. J. E. de Jouy II. 21 I believe that the good woman would have talked till now, if my wife had not found just time between two respirations, to tell her that it was a home nurse that she wanted. 1876 Apr. 802/1 Our supposed home dressmaker must be guided, as regards style, in a great measure by the amount of material she possesses. 1878 ‘Wyvern’ i. xxx. 184 The paraphernalia of the home-baker should be:—a large enamelled iron milk basin, two wooden spoons, [etc.]. 1958 Feb. 11 (advt.) For the home moneymaker The Stitchmaster Automatic Button-holer. 1960 11 Sept. 15/6 The ideal fabric for the home dress-maker. 1996 J. Lanchester (1997) 1 The omission of a single word or a single instruction can inflict a humiliating fiasco on the unsuspecting home cook. 2009 ‘Zane’ ii. 129 A home nurse would be coming by daily to check on me. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adjective] > of or belonging to home society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adjective] > of or belonging to home > made, grown, etc., at home 1552 R. Huloet Home supper, domicœnium. 1573 T. Tusser (new ed.) f. 52v Home wants to supplie. 1601 S. Daniel Ciuill Warres (rev. ed.) vi. liv. f. 90, in Th' ayde home disobedience would afford. 1602 R. Carew ii. f. 97 Afflictions by home-neighbours. 1797 II. lxi. 107 Every day in the ensuing week is taken up already with engagements: the particular Wednesday you ask us for is destined to receive a home party. 1852 ‘E. Wetherell’ I. xix. 268 The barest-looking and dingiest of houses..without one softening or home-like touch from any home-feeling within. 1866 Apr. 113/1 We may learn how much of improved home-comfortableness (I coin the word) and tasty effects may be had from a judicious studying of arrangement. 1883 A. Thomas 84 A room that..had the real genuine ‘home look’ about it. 1941 Apr. 306 Finally she had to leave her University post... ‘I could no longer keep it and be a home daughter.’ 1968 J. D. Hicks 131 A sumptuous home dinner, provided in turn by the various wives. 1996 I. McClaurin vii. 119 [Women] are further constrained by a social belief that their primary responsibility is the fulfillment of home duties. 2006 P. Williams xii. 100 She's somehow more impressive in her downtime home clothes..than in all her heels and clattering jewellery. 1594 J. Sylvester tr. O. de la Nove sig. A5 As he sees his ship her home-hauen enter safe. 1831 J. Wilson in Aug. 180 My Bark returning gaily up the glen, All ended then her ocean-voyagings In the home-haven of Loch-Unimore. 1856 New Ser. 1 97 Of all the systems in the magnificent spectacle of order, which we denominate the Universe, that within which the journeyings of our own home-planet is confined, most nearly and most immediately concern us. 1947 22 Mar. 26/3 After some summer-stock experience in Massachusetts, her home state, she came to New York in 1945. 1958 22 June 24/3 Some have long believed that life-bearing spores, somehow guarding the vital spark of life within them, escape occasionally from their home worlds. 2004 P. F. Hamilton xviii. 585 All other animal life had finally been exterminated from the Prime homeworld during the last expansion over the temperate lands. 2005 M. Fox & O. Fox 5 Earth is our home planet and provides all the necessary requirements for life. the world > space > place > position or situation > [adjective] > based in a place 1797 E. Berkeley in G. M. Berkeley Pref. p. cclix He requested his Mother..to order the coach to carry him back to Mrs. Tucker, saying, ‘that he liked her nursing better than home nursing’. 1825 30 Apr. 274/3 We really could not put our hand on any publication of the class, better adapted either for the encouragement of home study, or for premiums at school. 1840 3 Oct. 639/1 The Doctor stated that he had met with equal success in the institution of little home-sewing schools for girls. 1850 W. M. Thackeray II. xxv. 251 But this was only a home pastime, and the young school-boy was not fond of home sports. 1886 W. J. Tucker 308 The entire garments worn are home manufacture and home tailoring. 1898 7 Apr. 3/2 A recipe..for the home-washing of lace. 1902 XXV. 686/1 The Home Arts and Industries Association. 1917 H. W. Conn (rev. ed.) xii. 173 Until home canning was stimulated by the war-time food shortage they were rarely canned except in factories. 1966 H. W. Yoxall viii. 68 When I first joined Vogue the early demise of home-dressmaking was predicted. 1979 J. Muirden (ed. 4) vii. 92 An expensive luxury which drove amateurs to try their own home-silvering methods. 1990 Apr. 197/2 Some policies offer reduced premiums if you..forgo home nursing and outpatient treatment not linked to a stay in hospital. 2004 Dec. 143/3 Get a home workout going by investing in a Swiss ball for core-stability exercises. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > domestic as opposed to foreign society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > domestic as opposed to foreign > treating of domestic affairs ?1569 sig. A.viv Hauing shewed the daunger of this home match let vs now consider with the forein match. 1595 S. Daniel v. lxxv. sig. Ddv The glory lost, which home-broyles hinder might. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny II. 137 Ech region is furnished sufficiently with home-physicke of their owne. 1622 F. Bacon 76 To set prices by Statute..vpon our Home-Commodities. 1679 12 Having reduced all Home Duties into one receit..is another great Encouragement of Domestick Trade. 1690 W. Atwood 9 The King might erect Staples, or Treasuries for Commodities of home-Growth or Manufacture. 1713 in No. 5130/6 Neither do we..fear any Foreign Rivalship to our Home-Manufactures. 1765 in (1921) 26 743 The planters..reside Mostely on the Borders of James and York rivers which is the best soil for tobaco Especially the Sweet sented which is so much Esteemed in England, where they keep it for their own use, or what they Call home Consumption. 1766 W. Gordon 365 Whether foreigner or home-trader. 1825 J. S. Mill in 3 413 If the new material..be of home growth, the production of that material would open a new channel for the profitable employment of agricultural capital. 1836 (title) Home and Colonial School Association. 1846 H. H. Wilson II. xii. 514 The Home authorities earnestly recommended to the Indian Governments the immediate [etc.]. 1885 29 June 5/1 We have reached a crisis in our home politics. 1886 25 Mar. 2/4 The home producer complained of foreign goods being carried at a cheaper rate than his home produce. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ 200 These average good men who had ‘joined up’ freely, who had longed for the end of home training and the transfer ‘out Front’. 1940 1 Jan. 29/3 Entente Cordiale..was probably intended as French propaganda for home consumption on the present Anglo-French alliance. 1960 15 Oct. 10/4 There were certain products..where home demand was being entirely satisfied with home production. 1972 461/1 Sir Andrew Lewis K.C.B. (Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command). 2005 52 443 We would expect to find a negative coefficient on home growth. 3. the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adjective] 1607 R. Bernard x. 71 This home-speaking is the sharpe edge of the sword. ?1610 J. Fletcher iv. sig. H3 But why, Do I resolue to grieue and not to dye. Happy had bene the stroake thou gauest if home. 1625 R. Montagu 34 This is plaine and home enough. 1655 H. L'Estrange 45 The Earl of Bristow..returned so home an answer, as the House was amply satisfied with it. a1657 R. Lovelace (1864) 203 Like a glorious general, With one home-charge lets fly at all. a1687 R. McWard (1723) 196 Your great Confidence makes plain and Home-dealing with you..necessary. 1709 R. Steele No. 31. ⁋9 The other, with a sly serious one, says home Things enough. 1748 S. Richardson IV. xxxix. 221 The dear creature..wanted to instruct me how to answer the Captain's home-put. 1783 F. Burney 9 Dec. (1842) II. 288 This was rather a home stroke to be sure. 1788 H. Walpole Reminisc. in (1857) I. ix. p. cxlii That negociation not succeeding, the Duchess made a more home push. 1844 A. R. Smith II. iv. 57 This was a very home question. 1853 34 583 To so home a taunt the Austro-Russian had nothing to reply. 1904 F. H. E. Cunliffe II. iv. 86 The scattered formation of both sides in the earlier stages of the action militating against the cohesion and impetus necessary for a home charge. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [adjective] > relating to a person in his individual capacity > personal or private 1650 W. Brough 309 Wholesome, Home-selfe-Conferences. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury 18 Such Confidence they had in this Home Dialect of Soliloquy. 1726 Bp. J. Butler x. 195 If this sincere Self-Enjoyment and Home-Satisfaction be thought desirable. 1767 20/2 Is it not a defect in these laws, that there is no guard for liberty? nor plain rule for inward or home-duties? 1855 xi. 99 ‘Indeed you think so?’ said the lady of fashion, in a home key very different from that she generally used in company. 1880 A. D. T. Whitney (1881) xlix. 499 He knew something of what Miss Ammah's home word was likely to touch upon. society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective] > home or away 1826 5 June The odds were four to one against Brighton on the second day. The triumph on the home side has been decisive and complete. 1886 21 June 10/5 The home fielding did not realize expectation. 1886 No. 632. 9/1 The home crew jumped away with the lead, but the visitors speedily joined company with them again. 1887 F. Gale v. i. 51 The principal innkeeper and a few good local players inaugurated occasionally good out and home matches, in the season. 1916 E. F. Benson iv. 60 The home team took the visitors off to the dormitories to put on their flannels. 1969 3 Apr. 473/3 The factual conclusion is that if Arsenal had fouled more in these two home games (amongst others), they might have won them. 1972 15 Feb. 12/6 Carlisle dropped an unexpected home point last weekend. 1993 31 Dec. g9/2 It was nevertheless another home win against an in-state opponent. 1997 19 Dec. 13/3 Jones and Palacio go at it, with the Cardiff man a slight favourite if only because of home advantage. 1840 II. 407 The whole amount of notes engraved for the home office, is $855,939 00. The amount charged to the branch, to be deducted therefrom, is $184,900 00. 1896 7 Mar. 161/2 It is obviously impossible for a company organized in the United States to maintain a deposit in every state of the Union. It is sufficient if an ample deposit be made by it in its home department. 1912 Jan. 80 Back of this home staff there is a still larger field organization. 1985 N. Johnson 62 ‘He wanted to know how I'd feel about it if you worked for The Firm too, though not necessarily at the home branch’ (the main office on Wall Street). 2004 P. H. Peck 61 We were notified by the Ohio organization that a major promotional event was to take place at the home headquarters. society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [adjective] > home or base 1841 19 Jan. 1/6 At the head of the home stretch Cowboy overtook him and..beat him out by a length. 1845 N. Wanostrocht ii. i. 24 You have only to adopt the attitude of the Home-block, and, as your body recedes, turn the face of the bat inwards. 1895 15 Oct. 9/1 In the new order of things this first hole has become the last or home hole. 1909 J. H. Bancroft 69 This marks the safety point or home goal for the besiegers. 2009 R. Carlisle I. 56/2 Once the player has moved all of his or her pieces to the home area, he or she then bears off the pieces by moving them off the board. Phrases P1. In adverbial phrases. a. at home. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adverb] > home > at home eOE (Kentish) Charter: Oswulf & Beornðryð to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1188) in F. E. Harmer (1914) 2 Of higna gemęnum godum ðaer aet ham, mon geselle cxx gesuflra hlafa to aelmessan. OE (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 61 Læt me æryst hit cyþan þam ðe æt ham [OE Lindisf. æd ham, OE Rushw. æt huse; L. domi] synt . c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine (1993) 22 Min cnapæ lið æt ham al on paralisim. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 79 Hie sitteð at ham and ne hauen ðarof non Ȝeswink. ?a1300 (Bodl.) (1916) l. 64 (MED) Þis breþren wendeþ afeld to witen here fe, Ac Iosep leuede at hom. c1300 St. Margarete (Harl.) l. 180 in O. Cockayne (1866) 29 Þe were betere habbe bileued atom. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 289 Þere were meny men þat hadde at home [?a1475 anon tr. at their places; L. domi] suche bookes. 1484 W. Caxton tr. 11 A lytyl catte which she hadde at home. ?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis (Pynson) i. xx. 168 To byde at whome. 1509 (de Worde) sig. A.vv At home ne dwelled neuer one On forfeyture on lyfe and londe. 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini (1576) 220 When the Catte is not at home, the Myce daunce. a1625 J. Fletcher (1639) v. sig. H3 Charity and beating begins at home. 1667 S. Pepys 12 July (1974) VIII. 333 My wife in a dogged humour for my not dining at home. 1711 R. Steele No. 24. ⁋6 The Misfortune of never finding one another at home. 1775 E. Foot Diary in L. Ulrich (2001) vi. 219 I stay'd at home & finish'd Molly's Worsted Stockings and fix'd two Gowns for Welch's Girls. 1796 C. Burney I. 70 A sure sign that your head is at home. 1820 W. Irving (new ed.) I. 39 There is still a little world of love at home, of which he is the monarch. 1824 J. Carey I. xix. 366 You have a good memory, when it's at home: but you give it lave of absence now and then. 1841 C. Dickens i. vi. 112 There was only Mrs. Quilp at home. 1923 G. S. Mason in B. C. Williams (1924) 159 This was her evening at home with her unstimulating family. 1971 ‘G. Charles’ vi. 245 I've tried to convey to you a little of what his life was like as a boy. It hadn't altered much. He was still living at home. 2008 P. Hensher 571 If it was raining as hard as this in Tottenham, then Harold would have stayed at home; he wouldn't be out causing trouble. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to native land eOE tr. Orosius (BL Add.) (1980) i. x. 30 Hie heora here on tu todældon; oþer æt ham beon heora lond to healdanne, oðer ut faran to winnanne. OE Ælfric Old Test. Summary: Maccabees (Julius) in W. W. Skeat (1900) II. 120 Þa englas..heton hine cyðan, on his cyððe æt ham, Godes wundor on him. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 3543 Illc mann shollde cumenn ham. Inn till hiss aȝhenn birde. Forr þær to reccnenn till þe king. An pening..& tatt mann shollde hiss name þær. Att hame o write settenn. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 1219 Guendoleine he sende into hire fader londe..Þa wæs Guendoleine at hame [c1300 Otho atom]..heo hit mænde to alle monnen. a1350 in R. H. Robbins (1959) 9 (MED) Betere hem were at home in huere londe Þen forte seche flemmysshe by þe see stronde. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 514 He..dwelte at hoom, and kepte wel his foolde. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 148 Men of his burȝ..he by-hind him at hame withoute hede leuyd. c1540 (?a1400) 9337 Oure buernes..þat might haue leuet in hor lond, as lordes at hame. 1548 f. cxcvv That he then myght do at his pleasure, bothe at home and in outward parties. 1597 W. Shakespeare i. i. 136 No newes so bad abroad as this at home . View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson iii. 9 The most ancient Lawgivers, got the experience, by which they had rule in their Cities, not by secure study at home, but by adventurous travels abroad. 1678 N. Wanley v. i. §93. 467/2 Unfortunate in his Wars at home and abroad. 1751 in J. F. Hageman (1879) I. 59 The administration of his Excellency..has been disadvantageously represented to the ministry at home. 1776 A. Smith II. iv. ii. 52 A capricious man of fashion might sometimes prefer foreign wares..to cheaper and better goods of the same kind that were made at home. 1861 T. Gilbert 33 The..cliffs of Mokau..call to mind the chalk cliffs of dear old England—Beachy Head, and other favourite localities at ‘home’. 1873 C. Robinson 105 To all who are struggling to get on at home and yet can hardly keep their heads above the water..we say..come out to this Land of Plenty. 1884 5 Feb. 4/8 Everything..done by the Government at home and abroad. 1908 E. J. Banfield i. ii. 77 Australians cannot with justice complain when the good old folks at home blunder..the while..so much local misapprehension prevails. 1969 B. Rubens iv. 47 And suddenly, others had become like him, as it was at home, with the same clothes and language, with the same shops, the same struggle. 1971 Aug. 51/1 Blacks should stay where they are and improve conditions at home. We should not seek to escape by fleeing to other regions of the country. 2009 (National ed.) 7 June (Travel section) 8/3 You can buy Italian wines abroad for much less than at home. (c) the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [adverb] the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [adjective] > knowing about, familiar with the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > familiarity > [adverb] c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xi. l. 28 (MED) He [sc. Dowel] ys nat alway at hom among [Vesp. a-tom wiþ] ȝow Freres. 1531 W. Tyndale f. lvii The mayde was at home also in heuenly pleasures. 1548 f. xxxjv In his custodye, where he might recon hym self at home. 1677 Earl of Orrery 15 More at home, and at ease, and safety. 1787 ‘G. Gambado’ 32 Supposing you are now at home enough on horseback, to ride out alone. 1798 F. Asbury 18 Jan. (1821) II. 368 I went from the place where I had stayed six weeks, and had received every mark of affection, to brother Drumgold's, ten miles. I felt at home here also. 1841 C. Dickens i. vi. 114 That kind of acting had been rendered familiar to him by long practice, and he was quite at home in it. 1878 R. B. Smith 376 In politics he does not seem to have been at home. 1885 J. Ruskin I. v. 171 More at home on the hills than in the counting-house. 1908 R. Bagot xxiii. 293 She had evidently learned the language from servants and was, therefore, not quite at home with her h's. 1974 B. Friel i. 56 If you ask me he's more at home with the hooligans, out throwing stones and burning shops! 2008 (National ed.) 6 Jan. (Oscars Suppl.) 26/1 When a day player or a supporting actor comes on the set, one of her jobs is to welcome them and make them feel at home. a1602 W. Perkins (1607) (Heb. xi. 9) 205 Abraham made himselfe a stranger at home to auoide Idolatry; but they will make themselues at home in a strange Country, to intangle themselues in Idolatry. 1786 tr. P. J.-B. Legrand d'Aussy I. 93 Lay down your hat, and take a seat. I desire you will make yourself at home. 1842 July 12 According to the worthy man's hearty invitation, I proceeded to make myself and my companions at home. 1860 W. Gordon 11 Pray make yourselves at home, gentlemen. 1944 M. Laski viii. 77 Make yourself at home, and I'll just wet the tea-leaves. 1952 (U.S. ed.) Dec. 127/1 When we arrived there all the guys was already making themselves at home in the living room. The joint was jumping. 2002 I. Knight ii. 26 ‘Righty-ho,’ says Felicity in her jolly Sloane tones. ‘That's the intros over and done with. Make yourself at home, Stella.’ society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [adverb] > prepared to receive visitors 1691 W. Mountfort i. iii. 10 Be courteous to all Men; borrow of most Men, and pay no Man; always at home to their Whores, and ever abroad to their Creditors. 1752 H. Fielding IV. xi. iii. 147 His Wife soon afterwards began to keep an Assembly, or in the fashionable Phrase, to be at home once a Week. 1760 C. Johnstone II. i. i. 7 Turning to the footman, ‘I thought, sirrah (said she), that I was not to be at home this evening!’ 1850 W. M. Thackeray II. iii. 28 The Marchioness of Steyne would be at home to Mr. Arthur Pendennis upon a given day. 1880 103 In the country a bride's first appearance in church is taken as a sign that she is ‘At home’. 1883 J. Hatton in Nov. 830/2 The President makes it a point to be ‘at home’ on Sunday afternoons. 1927 E. A. Robinson vi. 111 If you were anyone else alive I might not always be at home to you, Or to your bland particularities. 1972 G. Holden tr. É. Zola 318 She gave him to understand that he must never come in the morning, but only between four and six in the afternoon..because that was when she was at home to visitors. 1991 M. Johnston (1994) 111/2 Mrs. Rufus Cage, Mrs. E. W. Hutchinson, Mrs. R. E. Bering, and Mrs. J. M. Bering all chose to be at home on Wednesdays. Mrs. Charles Dillingham was at home on Thursday. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [adverb] > score 1791 ‘A. Pasquin’ iii. 68 He is certainly at home if he makes his next deal within fifteen points of the game. 1796 C. Jones 294 By attending to the above Calculation any Player may judge whether he is at Home or not. 1837 G. Walker vi. 89 The non-dealer being so nearly at home for his next deal, may break his hand, in order to throw a powerful baulk into his adversary's crib. 1877 VI. 577/1 Each player ought to reckon slightly over six in hand and play and five in crib, or seventeen and a half in two deals to be at home. A player who scores more than the average and leaves his adversary six or seven points in arrear is safe at home. When at home it is best to play off; when the adversary is safe at home it is best to play on. society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adverb] > home or away 1833 Sept. 326 The first match Dorset won—‘at home’. 1869 25 Sept. 4/6 The custom is to play the rules of the club upon whose ground the game is played, and the consequence is that the club playing at home generally wins. 1898 1 Jan. 3/2 Last season,..a splendid victory was achieved at home, the locals winning by 2 goals to 0. 1930 5 Dec. 20/3 Clapton Orient, ‘at home’ to Luton Town at Highbury. 1958 Aug. 72/1 The third-place Phillies of 1900 won 45 and lost only 23 at home, while compiling a poor 30-40 mark while away. 2001 C. Glazebrook 210 The red and white scarves mean the Magpies are playing at home to Sunderland. 2010 (Nexis) 22 June s11 Mexico is better but South Africa is at home, and the point in the standings will jazz the host nation. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > vocally > specific utterance > in phrase expressing doubts about identity 1845 C. Lever 95 ‘And who is Mr. Lucas when he's at home?’ said Owen, half-sneeringly. 1888 R. Kipling Taking Lungtungpen in 99 You..dimonstrate to my frind here, where your frinds are whan they're at home? 1889 33 631 ‘And what room is this when it's at home?’ inquired Binks. 1930 J. B. Priestley ii. 64 ‘And we can't all look like Mr. Ronald Mawlborough either.’ ‘Who's he when he's at home?’ Mr. Smeeth inquired. 1960 R. Collier viii. 112 Peachy? I have no idea what you mean. What's that when it's at home? 2001 J. Coe (2002) 142 ‘Quick and easy crossword’. I ask you! I mean, what's a ‘condition of perfect bliss’, when it's at home? b. from home. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adverb] > home > at home > not c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1938) 4 Ne bið neauer his hus for þeos hinen wel iwist for hwon þet he slepe oðer ohwider from hame [Royal fare from hame], þet is hwen mon forȝet his wit. c1300 St. Katherine (Harl.) l. 177 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill (1956) 539 (MED) Þemperour fram home was afare. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 461 We beeþ nouȝt at home in þis worlde, but from home and gistes; we come nouȝt to dwelle here, but to wende hens. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 3350 Ysaac was not fra hame. c1450 (?a1400) (Ashm.) l. 461 Now hafe I..all to lange lengid fra hame. 1526 f. xiiv Sirra I vnderstand that thou dost ly euery night with with my wyfe when I am from home. 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini (1576) 223 I come from home [It. vengo di casaccio], that is, I neither winne nor lose. 1618 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgr. in (1883) 27 Her husband being from home. 1672 R. Townley Let. 15 Aug. in H. Oldenburg (1973) IX. 212 I have of late beene so much from home yt I could not attend ye successe of my water bellows. 1738 S. Johnson 225 Sign your will, before you sup from home. 1796 J. Moser I. 238 He was continually from home, running from one house to another. 1816 J. Wilson ii. ii. 15 I have been kept from home, beyond my promised hour. 1886 M. W. Hungerford III. vi. 113 Having run away from home. 1886 R. L. Stevenson 23 ‘You will not find Dr. Jekyll; he is from home,’ replied Mr. Hyde. 1946 D. Du Maurier iv. 37 It showed want of delicacy to come here asking to see me when my brothers are from home. 2003 N. Barr (2004) 318 For young men not long from home there was no person more reassuring than a woman their mothers' age. 1740 H. Bracken (ed. 2) II. ii. 77 You are never from Home, if you have such a Horse under you. 1870 T. Purnell in C. Lamb I. p. xxiv He was from home with formal and conventional people. The friends he most cherished were men who had some individuality of character. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting a type of place > [adverb] > nearer one's own dwelling place the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > intimately or closely > closely connected with the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > intimately or closely > into close contact 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart II. cx. f. cxxiiiv/2 Nowe I wyll speke of matters nerer home. 1565 T. Harding i. v. f. 13v To come neare home, Ioan of Kent that filth, who tooke forth a lesson further then ye taught her (I trowe) or yet preach, was she a syster of yours? 1577 W. Harrison (1878) iii. ii. ii. 13 Peradventure we might haue found the same neerer home. 1657 S. Purchas xxv. 166 No wonder if hee were a stranger abroad that was ignorant of Countries near home. 1667 N. Fairfax Let. 5 Dec. in H. Oldenburg (1967) IV. 14 I doubt ye busines lyes deep nearer home. 1709 22 The Dr. ought to look nearer home. 1791 Mar. 217/1 That village, which, I am persuaded, would afford much gratification to the Antiquaries, as perhaps it has been a path untrodden by being too near home. 1819 25 Sept. 622/1 To turn a Scot into ridicule is coming too near home, it might by a ricochet, and by a recoiling action, light upon himself. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato (ed. 2) III. 167 There are whole countries too, such as India, or, nearer home, Ireland. 1925 B. Vanzetti Let. 31 July in (1997) ii. ii. 166 The picture of the moccasin flowers are beautiful. I saw and plucked some on a hill near home in Plymouth, Mass. 1954 C. P. Snow iv. xxviii. 206 ‘Don't you like extravagant people?’ she asked. ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘Unless it comes too near home.’ 2009 H. Mantel ii. ii. 69 Nearer home, his own sister Margaret..divorced her second husband and remarried. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adverb] > home > at home 1795 B. Dearborn 139 Improprieties, commonly called Vulgarisms..[include] To home for At home. 1833 J. Neal I. 62 When he's to home..he's match for gab with anybody 't ever you come across. 1868 F. P. Verney ii I'm main sorry Master Broom ain't to home. 1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ (U.K. ed.) xii. 222 'Tain't every girl would know how to take care of a fat old woman, and make her feel to home. 1910 3 450 [Western New York] Is your father to home? 1972 J. Gores (1973) viii. 52 White meat don't turn me on. I got Maybelle and four cute kids to home. 2007 J. Clinch i. 11 I expect that woman of yours ain't to home, you running around like that. 1862 E. L. Blanchard ii. 8 So you'd brush, eh, would you, miss, back home? 1891 B. E. Fernow iv. 48 The Eastern man who..plants a few shade trees in front of his Dakota sod shanty, hoping that they will grow as they do ‘back home’. 1903 23 Mar. 7/2 Each of the six friends back home wrote to me. 1965 E. Gruening in C. L. Lokke p. xi To their communities back home the rushers sent accounts of their experiences, which were willingly published by their local newspapers. 2006 T. Anderson (2008) iv. 127 The take-off was interesting—exactly the same whitewater scramble as that of the Severn Bore back home. P2. Phrases (many proverbial) expressing love or affection for one's own home, home country, etc. 1546 [see sense A. 2b]. 1611 R. Cotgrave at Pouvoir When all is done home's homelie. a1656 Bp. J. Hall (1660) 204 We are ready to say, Home is homely, and our heart is there, though our bodies be away. 1840 M. Moffat Let. 25 Nov. in J. S. Moffat (1888) xxiii. 230 I long for my own home, for though loaded with the kindness of friends, and welcome everywhere, still home is homely! 1856 New Ser. 1 314 Those two classes adopt two different forms of a very old proverb, which sets forth that home is home, be it ever so homely. One class adopts that, but the other is rather disposed to say, that home is homely, be it ever so homely. 1600 [see sense A. 2b]. 1725 I. Watts ii. i. 228 There are some Propositions, wherein the Terms of the Subject and Predicate seem to be the same, yet the Ideas are not the same;..such as, Home is Home; that is, Home is a convenient or delightful Place. 1845 E. T. Clapp 217 The first essential of true home is, that it be our own: ‘home is home’, is the inspired song of the affections. 1897 A. B. Bruce v. 124 Home is home in all the centuries. 1943 Oct. 5/3 I'll find..my bed in the room above, or the place where the bed once stood, if the Japanese haven't taken it away or destroyed it. No matter. Home is home. 2010 K. Giffin xii. 137 ‘Boy, we're two and oh. You sure you wanna be leavin' now?’ ‘Two and oh, or ten wins and no loses... Home is home.’ a1699 J. Beaumont (1749) 51 But Home, sweet Home, releaseth me From anxious Joys. 1796 tr. Dulce Domum (song) in Mar. 209/1 Home, the seat of joy and pleasure, Home, sweet home, inspires our lay! 1800 E. Sandham 169 Though a ramble of this sort was sometimes pleasant,—‘home—sweet home’, is always welcome. 1822 J. H. Payne (song) (title) Home, sweet home. 1881 E. H. Hickey 60 Home, sweet home! at last, in the own country. 1901 H. F. Gordon xi. 161 So the returned invalid, with the words tenderly whispered, ‘Home, sweet home,’ started by train, and arrived safely at the Rectory. 1963 A. Baraka vii. 88 The bee gets the honey and brings it to the comb, Else he's kicked out of his home sweet home. 1991 C. Hiaasen xx. 171 Carrie turned a corner into a trailer park, and coasted the car to the end of a narrow gravel lane. ‘Home sweet home,’ she said. 1810 J. Robinson ix. 114 Home at last—quite exhausted—no place like home. 1822 J. H. Payne (song) Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. 1874 27 June 11/2 Many who are incurable have kind friends and families willing..to nurse them at home. For such, we admit: ‘there is no place like home’. 1946 I. Gershwin Paris (FR.) (song) in (1959) 74 Don't mention Tripoli, London or Rome; Sing out hip-hippily: No place like home! 1955 L. P. Hartley xiv. 136 When he said, ‘There's no place like home, is there?’ her thoughts did not wince at this obvious remark. 2002 July 59/2 Her friendship with Marr made her realize there's no place like home. ‘I was really getting ungrounded... I really need my home right now.’ P3. figurative. to call (a person) home. 1580 To Rdr. sig. A.iv The Lord of his goodnes hath called him home; so that he did not so much delight in plaies in times past, but he doth as much detest them now, and is hartilie sorie that euer he was such an instrument to set vice afloate. 1612 J. Mason 52 He..had seen that the Lord had alwaies called him home againe into the right way by aduersity and troubles. 1612 J. Boys 68 Such a Gallant Augustine was in his vnruly youth, vntill almightie God effectually called him home by a voyce from heauen, crying..Take the booke and reade. a1674 J. Janeway (1676) 18 After she had done a great deal of work for God and her own soul, and others too, she was called home to rest, and received into the arms of Jesus before she was ten years old. a1732 T. Boston (1776) vi. 62 I judged them happy, who, having done their work in the vineyard, were called home, and not made to see the dishonour done to God amongst us. 1774 Feb. 45/1 Scarce a cloud intercepted the rays of his felicity, until the partner of his soul was called home to her native skies. 1806 Oct. 473/2 His death..was very quick..;—his heavenly Father called him home; and he was well prepared to meet his God. 1841 20 Mar. Death called him home, and left his disconsolated wife a widow. 1899 19 Jan. 96/1 It seemed not death, but peaceful sleep, so gently did it come. When Jesus called him home. 1911 23 Dec. 2 He took up the scalpel, never to lay it down until the Great Physician called him home. 1989 G. H. W. Bush in (Nexis) 25 Apr. (Foreign News section) 10 We will not, cannot, as long as we live, know why God has called them home. 2002 14 Aug. b3/2 Frederick Earl S—..returned to his Heavenly Father on July 29... Fred was called home quickly and unexpectedly with a massive heart attack. 1829 21 Feb. (title of poem) 'Tis home where the heart is. 1857 J. T. Bickford xxi. 235 ‘Describe me a home, Willie.’ ‘Well, I should say, a woman of Kate Bently's appearance—’ ‘Nay, I said not a wife, but a home.’ ‘Home is where the heart is, Katie.’ 1922 R. D. Paine xxxix. 398 This cheerful, kindly, gray-haired man and his motherly wife said they liked the desert. Perhaps it was because their faces hinted that home is where the heart is. 1976 5 Aug. 7/7 Home is where the heart is, and we should be grateful to those who are prepared to put their hearts abroad for a while on behalf of the rest of us. 2009 C. Harrison 236 I found it interesting that, even after fifteen years, she still used the word ‘home’ to describe England rather than Italy. If home is where the heart is, it suggested hers lay elsewhere. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home > place like or as good as home 1866 19 May 7/3 He cannot too strongly recommend as ‘a home from home’ the Waverley Temperance Hotels. 1873 27 Sept. 520/1 Peaceable and quiet. A home away from home. 1907 30 Nov. 3/3 The British man is a clubbable animal, and doesn't mind paying handsomely for his ‘home from home’. c1926 ‘Mixer’ 21 It's like a home-away-from-home. 1962 6 Oct. 12/4 The idea is to provide a ‘home from home’ atmosphere for boys between 16 and 19. 1997 Aug. 42/1 A good café is a home away from home. 2010 Apr. 57/2 The Emperor 8-leg bedchair really is home from home for the carp angler. 1889 8 70 The next thought, gentlemen, comes closer to home... Are we armed, equipped and ready to impart the knowledge and properly instruct the people? I am afraid not. 1905 Feb. 430/2 Our satiro-parodist strikes the reading public very close to home, dealing out quips and quizzes without favor or fear. 1959 24 June 22/8 I wonder, too, if the picture of the young people of Japan searching for something to believe in,..was not, also, rather close to home. 1978 12 Aug. 13 It [sc. the Liberal party] has nothing of importance to say to anyone if it starts fine tuning on its basic principles when they come a little too near to home. 2001 J. A. Brown iv. 123 The negative stereotypes..that some of the older readers..feel hit rather close to home at times. 1894 2 Apr. 6/2 A territory which embraces 30,570 square miles, and is home to a population of 1,150,000, 689,000 of whom are negroes. 1945 Sept. 45/1 It [sc. Winslow] is home to a fleet of 68 main line Diesel-electric freight engines. 1972 1/2 Forests and dense bushy areas are home to Ruffed Grouse, or ‘Pats’. 1989 Nov. 44 e/1 In addition to its ultraexpert terrain, Mt. Mansfield is home to another whole world of skiing. 2009 J. A. Coyne iv. 110 St. Helena, though lacking many groups of insects, is home to dozens of species of small, flightless beetles, especially wood weevils. a1938 T. Wolfe (1940) iii. 324 They did not know that you can't go home again. America had come to the end of something, and to the beginning of something else. 1969 7 Apr. 54/1 Okay. So you can't go home again. But it's sort of nice just to take a stroll around the old neighborhood, even though admittedly it's not the same. 1989 A. C. Bredahl viii. 127 Clyde discovers the obvious, that you can't go home again; but his act of return initiates the process of ‘stock taking’ that enables him to abandon nostalgia. 2009 (Nexis) 12 Aug. 12 The Americans have a phrase for it: you can't go home again. Once you leave, that is it. There are few second and even fewer third acts in the life of an international sportsman. Compounds C1. a. Objective (chiefly in sense A. 2a). Cf. home-keeping adj., homemaker n., etc. 1664 Duchess of Newcastle xxiii. 43 Houshold Friends for the most part are Home-lovers, that is, the He-friend makes love to the Wife, or the She-friend is Courted by the Husband. 1833 5 May 323/1 That fire-side luxury, with which every domestic endearment has associated itself in the English character, has rendered the people a sort of home-lovers, unmindful in their state. 1933 S. Walker 279 It is Caspar Milquetoast, home-lover, bridge-player, and fine fellow, who has put himself on the spot. 1999 21 Mar. i. 4/1 There have been other attempts recently to transform the image of White Van Man from lout to homelover. 1799 May 396/2 The amiable and home-loving Mr. Cracherode was, however, one who frequented the literary coffee-house juxta the Mewsgate. 1856 R. W. Emerson xviii. 298 Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men. 1902 3 June 1/2 The Boer is, above all things, a home-loving man. 1990 8 Sept. 24/5 Maybe he's just a home-loving guy who doesn't like the bright lights. 1850 3 Jan. There are hundreds of men in this city anxious to be home owners, but are unable to do so, because the vacant lots in this city are monopolized by a few. 1945 G. Nelson & H. N. Wright xvii. 203/1 There are almost 35,000,000 dwellings in the United States. Maybe you own one of them... To the homeowner who is intrigued by..tomorrow's house, several possibilities are open besides..selling the roof over his head. 2006 6 May 4/1 A growing band of Sydney home owners..are facing negative equity as property prices sag. 1884 x. 282 These two weak points, the lack of diversified industry and the lack of home ownership, will no longer exist. 1972 6 July 24/7 Home ownership in cities averaged 42 per cent. 2006 14 Sept. 10/2 First-time buyers are continuing to find ways of getting a toehold on the property ladder, showing just how popular home-ownership is to many young people. 1852 D. S. Curtiss 289 Let us establish and secure as many independent, self home-owning citizens as possible in the nation. 1881 18 June The true philosophy of home making and home owning. 1926 July 36/2 The advantage of home owning over renting is variously estimated as equal to four to six months' rent saved. 2005 H. Stretton v. 122 A rising number of the private landlords of suburban houses are home-owning households themselves. 1828 E. Atherstone I. 115 Friend-leavers! and home-seekers! 1911 1 Apr. 12/1 (advt.) Pandora Avenue Homeseekers. We have the finest residential buy in Victoria today. 2002 V. Coren & C. Skelton xxii. 159 These eager, probably newlywed, home-seekers are forced to pick their way over rented tripods, lights cables, [etc.]. b. eOE (Corpus Cambr. 173) xlii. 74 Se mon se ðe his gefan hamsittendne wite, þæt he ne feohte, ær ðam he him ryhtes bidde. OE 686 Ða þæt gehogode hamsittende, Meda aldor.., þæt he Babilone abrecan wolde. 1596 W. Warner (rev. ed.) xii. lxxvi. 310 I wille not aske..why you should home-left Love forgit. 1728 R. Savage 7 Far be the Guilt of homeshed Blood from All, On whom unsought, embroiling Dangers fall! 1749 M. Browne 40 If thy mate, or home-left family..Thy visit need, thy lonely haunts refrain. a1854 E. Grant (1988) I. xii. 250 The wives were all in homespun, homedyed linsey woolsey gowns. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ I. ii. 55 Various home-filled bottles. 1909 3 Nov. 9/3 Those determined that loved ones far away shall share in the home-chopped suet, home-stoned raisins and home-beat eggs. 1917 H. E. Bennett xx. 222 Particularly in contending against home-formed and home-encouraged habits of speech is eternal vigilance the price of thoroughness and economy. 1970 16 Dec. 12 A house-owning, two-car, fashion-conscious, home-entertaining, overseas-holidaying middle class. 2000 Oct. 83/1 We used a home-constructed turntable with incremental hash marks around its 360-degree perimeter. (b) 1812 E. M. Ward viii. 52 Keep regular tenor of his onward pace, Till safe arrived at home-abiding place. 1886 M. Howitt in 545 The home-abiding poet Whittier. 1987 30 357 There are practically no home-abiding housewives in Estonia. 1750 ix. 118 Take of new Cow's milk, and oatmeal tea or barley-water..and with the crumbs of a fine roll or bread (if home baked the better) make it of a proper consistence. 1816 J. Austen II. ix. 186 The finest looking home-baked apples I ever saw in my life. View more context for this quotation 1870 J. R. Lowell 251 The home-baked Saxon loaf. 2000 G. Smith in N. Hornby 31 And after, fruit pie and custard or cream. A proper, home-baked pie, mind you—none of your tins and packets. 1920 May 387 Home-based industry. 1944 8 British and American home-based bombers made..day or night raids. 1995 Sept. 93/1 Neighborhood coffee shops and corner cafés have also opened, becoming watering holes where home-based workers socialize and ‘network’. 1873 24 June 386/2 Let us have home-canned fruits and home-made pickles, by all means. 1979 Sept. 48/2 The deadly botulin toxin thrives primarily in improperly home-canned low-acid fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, and fish. 2008 S. P. Dowdney i. 19 A home-canned vegetable is not fresher or better than a store bought fresh one, even one that has traveled thousands of miles over several weeks. 1835 Rep. Select Comm. Hand-loom Weavers' Petitions 27 in (H.C. 341) XIII. 1 Are not a great part of our home-consumed goods those of the hand-loom? 1904 27 Dec. 4/3 A considerable proportion of export tonnage besides home-consumed manufactures..is conveyed by horse-drawn vehicles. 2002 F. Tarp et al. 103/1 Home-consumed goods are..valued at producer prices, while marketed goods are valued at purchaser prices. 1751 May 203/2 I have had the goodness of our home-cured herrings. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Cousin Phillis i, in Nov. 619 I handled and weighed in my fancy the home-cured ham. 1959 236 Breakfast was home-cured ham, thick, well grilled, with eggs and tomato. 1991 M. C. Blew (2001) 183 She heats a skillet and begins to cook a meal. Home-cured salt pork, home-canned beans and tomatoes. 1782 23 Mar. Even of his home-killed mutton and beef, if, by way of regale, he indulges in a joint of it fresh, all the rest is salted. 1906 20 Sept. 6/1 Not even an expert could tell the difference between home-bred and home-killed meat unless he were on the spot. a1978 S. T. Warner (1985) 194 There would be no more..spices to redeem home-killed mutton from the aroma of decay. 1728 J. Browne 16 Let the Ship be built of home produced Materials or not. 1863 Sept. 270/3 We found that a large proportion of the families in that State depended mainly upon home-produced sorghum syrup for family sweetening. 1966 28 Mar. (Austral. Suppl.) p. v/6 Home-produced crude oil. 1994 July 64/1 Dinner and home-produced wines were taken at a long wooden table. 1739 22 It is true, a small Proportion of the home-rais'd Flax comes to the Market. 1866 I. 103 Everything was either home-made or home-raised. 2007 May 206/3 Watching his wife Claudia's nonna cook her own home-raised rabbits every Sunday on the wood stove in her kitchen. 1769 Apr. 152/1 Home-rear'd poultry's oft your fare. 1886 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) I. 3 Home reared birds. 2004 H. Fearnley-Whittingstall ix. 193 The kidneys of my own home-reared pigs, eaten on the day of slaughter, are one of my favourite of all offally treats. 1790 J. Naismith ii. v. 243 The advantage was rather in favour of the home saved seed. 1872 21 Nov. 399/1 Lord Hawke..says that his own home-saved bulbs have suffered very much, his imported ones not so much. 1939 16 Oct. 2/7 Those who have not any home-saved seeds on hand should order some at once. 2000 18 Feb. 56/4 Most cereal seed is home-saved. But bad lodging in oilseed rape several years ago persuaded them to switch to blends of bought-in varieties which are then mixed. 1797 S. T. Coleridge Let. Mar. in (1868) III. 602 All my compositions have the same amiable home-staying propensity. 1854 H. D. Thoreau 170 I the home-staying, laborious native. 1905 9 June 8/5 The home-staying Englishman. 2004 J. Scott in J. Scott et al. vii. 115 A study of ‘homestaying’ children in Norway. 1597 H. Lok sig. Xviiiv Such home-wouen robes, such wholesome dyet these. 1888 36 769/1 Home-woven hats, or knitted caps. 2001 L. Ulrich viii. 281 Country girls wore calico gowns on Sunday and home-woven ‘tyers’ over homemade gowns during the week. c. Similative. 1841 15 Mar. 155/1 Thy home-sweet looks of beauty. 1882 H. S. Holland (1885) 216 Its dear shores and home-sweet hills. 1995 W. H. Gass (1999) 268 Words, then, gentlemen—not in Mother's homesweet mottoes, but in the miseries of history. 1596 G. Markham sig. B Shee of her home-begotten woes bemoanes the wronged case. 1605 M. Drayton sig. Ii5 Home-begotten hate. 1823 T. Moore 104 Calm, wedded affection, that home-rooted plant. 1853 T. N. Talfourd iv. iii We'll ensure one hour of home-fraught comfort. 1897 30 Mar. 8/2 Work amongst the home-tied and crippled children of London. 1902 Nov. 847/2 And the autumn passed—a smiling, radiant season that was balm to Harriet's home-rooted soul. 1982 M. P. Ryan (1985) ii. 64 The problem of sending home-sheltered young men and women into an increasingly complex society. 1987 11 May 23/7 Mobility can mean the difference between the freedom of an active social life and a lonely hometied existence. 1996 E. D. Hirsch iv. 91 The home-provided background knowledge of advantaged students helps make them quicker and more academically advanced than their less-advantaged classmates. C2. Many of the formations listed here are compounds of the noun, but some may alternatively be interpreted as compounds of the adjective.society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > addressing letter > address 1847 13 Mar. The officers or persons belonging to the Squadron, wishing to subscribe for the Californian, by giving us their home address, can have their papers regularly. 1886 M. W. Hungerford (1888) xxiii. 156 If you will give me his home address. 2002 2 Aug. 30/3 Inquiries are made in an effort to trace Wilson who is not at his home address. 1969 29 Nov. 35/2 It soon became the practice to ask for the customer's home and contents insurance as a condition to provision of coverage for his car. 1980 1 Dec. 9/2 (advt.) Home and Contents insurance covers everything from your house to the smallest item inside which you consider valuable enough to protect. 2010 (Nexis) 18 Oct. 8 The requirement an insured dwelling remain occupied was a common inclusion on home and contents policies. 1955 22 Feb. (advt.) Enjoy our ‘Red Line Special Bank-By-Mail’ service, providing complete home banking. 1979 (Nexis) 24 Jan. 8 (headline) Ultimate growth of home banking awaits resolution of legal & technical issues. 1984 23 Oct. i. 8/6 Mentioning his own company's telebroking service, Mr Baughan said home banking and home broking would soon be linked. 1995 8 May 71/2 A ‘home banking’ empire, a digital dreamland where you'll apply for loans, pay bills and buy mutual funds from your living room with a click of the mouse. 1839 Sept. 491 Since we have pretty well exhausted our home beats, and I have heard that some ground, about ten miles distant, is in prime order, I have determined to take a try there. 1901 23 Aug. 12/1 (heading) Policemen to travel home beats. 1924 12 Aug. 4/6 Owing to the death of Mr. Charles Goring,..a share is offered in this year's shoot of the home beat. 1972 8 Nov. 21/1 The five-year-old adoption by the Met of the Accrington home beat scheme that attempted to introduce into the towns the principle of the village policeman. 1994 J. Gierach (2005) viii. 100 We trudged back to the hut on the Home beat for lunch. 2005 G. Towers iii. 66 Many local authorities have set up neighbourhood offices to deliver some of their services, while the Police have established ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ and ‘Home Beat’ policing. society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [noun] > attachment to home life > person 1703 W. Freke xxix. 186 Home Birds live not out half their time. 1821 A. Moore II. v. 88 You know we are always home birds, therefore come whenever you can prevail on Lady Wyedale to part with you. 1886 F. W. Robinson II. xx. 101 I was too much of a home-bird to be satisfied with the change. 1902 N. Everitt xii. 137 The semi-tame home birds should have made their presence known to the migratory fowl. 1994 J. Kelman 160 He wasnay a homebird. He wasnay used to it. So he liked going out, he liked the pub, no just for the bevy, he liked the crack as well. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > homeland or native land 1846 16 Dec. 2/3 It is a disgrace to our public, that they have not turned out en masse to the patronage of such talent of home birth. 1868 25 Aug. 193/2 The mortality in these hospitals can be compared with that which took place in the remaining 18,992, or the home births, in the Dublin district. 1910 7 Apr. ii. 4/3 We suggest appropriating every idea, whether it is of home birth or of foreign origin. 1922 17 It covers hygiene and diet of pregnancy, clothing, simple and inexpensive preparations for a home birth, and the early care and training of the baby. 2006 M. Wagner viii. 193 A woman in the Netherlands having a low-risk pregnancy can choose to give birth at home or in the hospital, but there are significant incentives for choosing home birth. society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > day pupil 1816 271 Some of the boys are boarders, and others come to the school as home-boarders. 1905 H. A. Vachell xi. 228 He wished to educate his only son at Harrow as a ‘Home-Boarder’, or day-boy. 2003 E. R. Lambert iii. 93 As a home boarder at Westminster School he distinguished himself academically. 1901 18 Feb. 10/7 (advt.) Soap. Home brand—buy a box and season hard—reg'ly 6 cakes 25c. 1951 23 Nov. 6/3 The equipment for turning out a home brand, but effective, supply of dynamite sticks. 1960 21 Sept. 23/2 (advt.) Try our delicious home brands, and save money. 1985 (Nexis) 2 Sept. Unbranded paints, or home brand paints, from supermarket or hardware chains were often considerably cheaper. 2004 A. Haynes 56 Home brands at major supermarkets and department stores are usually a cheaper option. 2011 B. J. Bryant & K. M. Knights (ed. 3) iii. 66/1 The generic or ‘home-brand’ product is often as effective as the ‘upmarket’ brand name product. 1864 3rd Ser. 155/2 There are laws for the house-breaker who breaks a door, but none for the home-breaker who breaks the heart. 1919 2 Jan. 61/1 People have wanted weapons for home defense since the first cave man discouraged the first home breaker with a club. 1928 2 Sept. 17/1 As a home-breaker woman is..as good as a man. 2001 D. Jacobs 217 Armed with righteous indignation, Mary strode off to assail this home breaker with her crimes. 2008 S. King (2009) 456 And why an electric fence in the first place? The Motherfucker had spouted a lot of bullshit having to do with discouraging potential home-breakers. 1849 12 528 Murder, robbery, theft, and home-breaking, were at the same time declared to be unbailable offences. 1873 Dec. 730 I see the heart-break of the home-breaking falling upon, but powerless to spoil, my new content. 1907 18 June 3/6 Home-breaking is a more serious offence against society than house-breaking. 1980 L. Auchincloss (1991) 224 I had more deplored him for weakness than condemned him for home breaking. 1995 F. E. Zimring & G. Hawkins (1997) vii. 138 The fear of homebreaking associated with burglary is apparently downplayed. 1825 E. Tailor 10 Her full sails catch the home-breeze joyfully. 1893 A. Webster 118 The dear home breezes blow to me Over the well-known meadows. 1913 J. K. Lawson 30 As thrills the sailor's heart some chime By soft home-breezes borne along. society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > shopper > other shoppers 1774 R. Hotham 30 Revenue is most essentially injured by this illicit trade, as well as all home buyers. 1893 29 Apr. 279/2 Just beyond this circle is the golden zone for home buyers. 1921 21 Apr. 1071/2 Many foreign inquiries have come in recently at machine tool shops, and considerable business has been done; but home buyers are holding back contracts. 1973 6 Oct. 1/1 A plan to help young home-buyers is likely to be announced within the next week. 1996 13 Oct. (Business section) 10/1 During the recent housing slump, experts advised homebuyers to nest, rather than invest. 1625 W. Laud 47 He may haue leisure from Home-Cares. 1838 Sept. 205 Is it not true that as our schools become more perfect, there is less home care and instruction? 1841 E. C. Grey I. xxi. 274 Leaving behind, for a brief space, all home cares and vexations. 1900 Jan. 283/1 Home care of the sick is an important branch of domestic science. 1961 17 Mar. 352 The great increase of home-care cases that must follow the demolition of the mental hospitals. 1974 28 Mar. 58 Aretha Franklin stayed at the posh downtown Sherry Netherland Hotel to be away from home cares. 2007 M. K. Aronson & M. B. Weiner xi. 147 Respite services can also be provided with home care, using a temporary, twenty-four-hour, live-in aide. 1899 16 June 6/5 (advt.) Nothing can be prettier and more convenient for home-carer's wear in these hot-weather times, than the two-piece striped print chintz suits we have just put on sale. 1929 J. A. Hill xv. 150 Families in which the father and the only daughter are working and the mother is the home carer. 1981 15 Oct. 86 Home carers and home care workers. 27 October, 2.15 pm. Meeting organised by the London Social Services Research Group. 2007 G. Smith xvi. 219 Home carers provide crucial support to their loved ones, often for years and under very difficult circumstances. 1790 H. Walpole Let. 3 July in M. Berry (1865) I. 198 The home-chapter will be dull as usual. The Boydels and Nichols's breakfasted here yesterday, in return for their civilities at the Shakespeare Gallery. 1883 308 Eminently qualified for the station of High Priest by his unrivalled rendering of the ritual, he served many terms in his home Chapter. 1937 16 Oct. i. 5/6 Dr. Overton H. Mennet of Los Angeles, recently elected National Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, was honored yesterday by his home chapter. 2004 (Martha Stewart Living) 6 The home chapter is made up of maintenance and repair information, home-improvement hints, and clothing-care advice. 2005 E. D. Hopkins iv. 74 I worked for two weeks in Winston-Salem, where my home chapter was organizing a grand free food giveaway in the housing project closest to our office. 1760 7 How much to be lamented, that in our home-circle of business..the like division of good and bad was not as equally made! 1791 W. Combe V. 228 What may be called the home circle of his particular friends. 1841 C. Dickens 16 Mar. (1969) II. 238 With love to all your home circle, and from all mine. 1853 Sept. 89/2 They [sc. unexplained sounds] occur in the privacy of home circles, and where an earnest desire exists not to encounter publicity, but to ascertain..the cause of a phenomena to them inexplicable. 1875 Apr. 163 We would suggest to those who wish to know the truth of these manifestations, for a few friends to form ‘a home circle’, according to directions on the cover of the Magazine. 1917 C. S. Cooper (1919) ix. 121 Many of their happiest hours are spent within the home-circles. 2000 13 May d5/3 Each and every family member needs to maintain a bond with all the other persons in their home circle. 2004 S. McMullin ix. 163 The spirits visiting the Lacey home circle reflected a sympathy for socialism. society > law > legal power > [noun] > extent or range of jurisdiction > a district > under specific jurisdiction 1664 7 July For the Home-Circuit, The Lord Chief-Justice Bridgeman, and Mr. Justice Browne. 1772 July 339/1 England is divided into the six following circuits; namely, the home circuit, the Norfolk circuit, the Oxford circuit, the midland, the western circuit, and the northern circuit. 1861 A. Trollope (1862) I. x. 75 Mr. Furnival practised at the common law bar, and early in life had attached himself to the home circuit. 1876 13 Mar. 11/5 The incongruity of the old name of the Home Circuit with a district which takes in Norwich and Lewes, Maidstone and Huntingdon, is manifest, and even the most uncompromising Conservatives of the Circuit Mess are probably gliding easily into the use of the new title. 1993 F. Barker ii. ii. 175 With the exception of three who are unidentified, we know the names of all those who died in prison on the Home Circuit in the period. the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > [noun] > material comfort(s) 1797 I. i. 6 He considered her death as no real deprivation of home comforts and happiness. 1805 Nov. 682/1 No means to bring home comfort to the lowly habitations of the destitute poor. a1855 C. Brontë (1857) II. xxv. 223 To sit on a foot-stool at the fire-side—to enjoy home-comforts. 1867 J. E. Cooke iii. xii. 465 Of the good old mansion, once the abode..of home comfort and hospitality, there remained only a pile of smoking bricks. 1922 J. Joyce ii. xii. [Cyclops] 289 Their abodes were equipped with every modern home comfort. 1977 21 Mar. 13/2 Five plane spotters serving jail terms in Greece will get a spot of home comfort today. 2004 P. W. Desjardins xii. 171 A man appreciative of his home comforts, he preferred the city life to being dragged out to these bush towns. society > computing and information technology > hardware > computer > [noun] > personal computer 1949 Apr. 38/3 Future long-range offensive missiles will most likely radio back what position information they can gather, and have it processed in a home computer, out of which radio-transmitted answers will give the missile its instructions. 1955 J. E. Pfeiffer xvii. 250 One result of the trend toward compactness might be home computers no larger than television sets. They could serve as electronic calendars to keep track of dinner engagements, laundry lists,..and some of the other details of living. 1967 32 123/1 They earn more respect among colleagues by building a record collection than by putting together a home computer. 1993 D. Sheff xv. 370 His video-game system would transform into a multiuse, multipurpose home computer. 2004 (National ed.) 26 Aug. e2 (advt.) Suite of powerful, personal security applications that protect your home computer against worms, trojans, zombies & more. society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > house arrest 1724 in Index sig. Ee A Citizen's taking the Air in the Country from his home Confinement. 1841 June 108 We do not wish to dwell much on the enormous difference of expense between transportation and home confinement. 1867 43 85 Another illustration of the caution with which those who can afford the cost of home confinement..should desire to be confined in hospitals. 1921 K. Kawabé viii. 66 The authorities became alarmed, and in 1876 changed the home confinement to penitentiary sentence. 1922 C. C. Van Blarcom vi. 86 An equipment which will prove adequate to meet the ordinary requirements of a home confinement. 1995 4 Nov. 1209/1 Freedom for women to choose a home confinement, pool birth, or elective caesarean section. 2010 (National ed.) 10 Sept. a6/5 Mr. Chen's continued home confinement under guard, a practice known in China as ‘soft detention’, has no basis in Chinese law. 1937 12 Sept. v. 13/8 These figures assume that the fire insurance policy is for $5,000, and the home contents policy for $2,500. 1972 13 Oct. (Insurance Brokers Suppl.) p. iv/6 5 per cent of insurances on home structures arranged through brokers, and 4 per cent of home contents insurance. 1995 (Sun Alliance) Winter 33/1 Your friend must have Accidental Damage included as part of her home contents policy. 1910 Nov. 736/3 A favorite Southern way of home-cooking a guinea. 1950 15 Oct. iv. 4/3 Even the food we used in our scenes was home-cooked by farm wives. 2009 D. L. Long iv. 127 She will learn how to home cook well seasoned low fat, low-calorie meals. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adjective] > of or belonging to home > made, grown, etc., at home 1811 T. F. Dibdin Let. 19 Aug. in (1836) I. viii. 486 A home-cooked beefsteak, lightly sprinkled with snow-white horse radish, and flanked with the best lettuce my garden can bestow. 1923 H. Crane 12 Oct. (1965) 150 A very fine home-cooked chicken dinner. 1997 B. Clough 97 Whenever he felt like a home-cooked meal or sleeping in a bed, Rob selected a fat cat and briefly became his best friend. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > style of cooking > simple 1853 3 Mar. (heading) Home cooking. 1921 29 Mar. 6/3 Plain and fancy articles will be on sale, also home cooking and a fish pond. 1968 O. Wynd i. 5 The other patrons..all came often to get away from home cooking. 1988 31 Mar. 15/3 The hallways were jammed with fans pumped up to cheer their Main Man... This was a night on which Jesse Jackson badly needed that type of home cooking. 1992 7 May 49/2 Most of us have memories of Mom's home cooking. The comfort foods she fed us when we were home from school with the flu. 1796 J. Burchell 130 If the home correspondent has effects, he is bound to comply with the order for Insurance. 1833 June 265 We have lately received from our Home correspondents a variety of communications. 1840 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow (1891) I. 359 I hope I shall be a better home-correspondent than I have been hithertofore. 1914 (U.S. Army) iii. viii. 166 In addition to the requirements for home correspondents, a foreign correspondent must have served in other campaigns. 1998 J. McManners I. ii. xii. 377 Dubois de Fosseux..took the opportunity of making him his home correspondent, sending regular letters describing how things were going in the village and on the estate. the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > districts of England 1695 C. Davenant 77 The Eleven Home Counties, which are thought in Land Taxes to pay more than their proportion, viz. Surry with Southwark, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgshire, Kent, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, Berks, Bucks, and Oxfordshire. 1785 M. Madan 87 Such an administration of the laws has been long creeping in upon us, as the length of the gaol-calendars, more especially in the home counties, too plainly testify. 1898 4 153 The publication,..will..relate not only to London, Middlesex and Hertfordshire, but also to Essex, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey and Kent; that is, to the Home Counties. 1966 11 Aug. 218/1 The chances are..small that a writer setting his play in outer suburbia or inner Home County will make of it more than a painful banality. 1972 J. Blackburn ii. 29 Her accent clashed dramatically with the jargon of Home Counties suburbia. 2002 ‘H. Hill’ xxviii. 165 The buses would trundle in from the Home Counties night after night, filled with menopausal mums and the Barbour-clad recently retired. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > homeland or native land society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > [noun] > aggregate of sovereign states under one rule > mother country in relation to colonies 1707 14 June 214/1 This foreign Country, call'd Scotland, by the intervening Accident of the Union, becomes the same Home-Country with England. 1761 11 Aug. 147/2 The places taken from us as of small trade or produce,..useless to their nations, and greatly chargeable to keepe, draining the home Countries both of men and money. 1844 3 464 Provisions here are much cheaper than in the home country. 1860 A. Reid III. xi. 327 For the last time, I sought the shores of my home country. 1948 G. W. Southgate (new ed.) viii. 72 The plantations were not regarded as daughter-nations..but as outposts of the home country, to which, from an economic standpoint, they were subordinate. 1953 15 54 Abmigration occurs when a bird..accompanies foreigners which have also wintered here to their home countries in the Spring. 2002 T. Nairn iii. 36 Little England..came to denote territorial (and industrial) England, the ‘home country’ minus its colonies, and without its overseas role as a global gendarme. 2008 S. Armitage (2009) 165 Of all the crimes my home country can rightly be accused of, I didn't expect to have to add altitude-ism to the list. society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > craft > pursued at home 1879 1 July 8/5 A natural taste craves it [sc. ginger] as a delightful element in the economy of homecraft. 1914 M. Hill (title) Homecraft in the classroom. 1927 26 Feb. 5/2 Women who seek a pleasant paying homecraft. 1972 Sect. 102 London Postal Area E-K 513/3 Homecraft Supplies. 1994 Aug. 24/1 People with an inventive eye for homecrafts have spotted other uses—for painting on fabrics, ceramics and plastics, and even for cake decoration. society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility 1782 30 Mar. 314/2 Lord Shelburne is to act as Secretary of State for the Home Department as well as Colonial Secretary. 1825 A. Caldcleugh I. iv. 96 [Brazil has] an absolute hereditary monarchy, with a council of state, secretaries and boards for the administration of the treasury, war, and home departments. 1966 17 Mar. 373/1 The Ministry of Defence is classified as a ‘home’ rather than an ‘overseas’ department. 2002 3 Feb. 24/6 David Blunkett MP is Secretary of State for the Home Department. 1579 J. Frampton in tr. M. Polo Ep. Ded. sig. ⋆.ij Committing the same to printe in the Englishe tongue, perswading, that it mighte..delight many home dwellers. 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in (1899) iv. pr. i. 76 Homedweller in thy country. 1825 12 96 They live separate and alone, sojourners rather than home-dwellers. 2004 D. M. Flournoy viii. 396 Modern home dwellers now expect that communication with the outside world must be easier, faster, and more personalized. 1849 7 Sept. 1/5 Why should any people refuse to home educate their children, and thus retain their freshest and most undying associations, as well as their never-ending love, reverence and tenderest affections! 1981 31 Mar. b1/6 Gollmitzer-St. Louis' plan to home-educate her son could be approved if she strengthens the curriculum she is offering him. 2004 18 Mar. (Education section) 5/4 I home-educated my daughter for two terms after she suffered bullying, and it worked out better than I could have hoped. 1818 Feb. 17 It is..a very wise wish, indulged by the British people, that a home-educated and British-born Prince should sit upon the throne. 1824 3 134/2 I love to talk to home-educated children; they are the only wise people we have left. 1907 R. Sellar viii. 64/2 A native-born and home-educated priesthood. 1920 J. E. Courtney 200 A girl from Norwich, home bred and home educated except for a couple of years' attendance at a mixed grammar school in her native town. 2009 M. Perry 29 A coterie of friends covering the spectrum from pagan shamans to a home-educated evangelical Christian nutritionist. society > education > [noun] > systematic education > education at home 1673 R. Allestree ii. iii. §7 In that competition sure the home Education will be cast. 1730 J. Clarke (ed. 2) 204 This is an Objection..against a Home-Education. 1856 Aug. 124/2 Home education forms by far too insignificant a part in the instruction of youth. 1914 Oct. 124/2 A home-education division of the Bureau of Education has been established. 2004 7 Aug. 37/3 How can we wonder that parents are choosing home education and that they want to do so without reference to the education authorities? 1842 July 114/2 The daily, hourly opportunities possessed by the home educators. 1938 12 July 17/6 The wireless is the poor man's home-educator as well as his entertainment-provider. 2008 C. Honoré vi. 136 Like most home educators, the Burkes let their son take the lead much of the time. 1896 5 May 11/6 4 clear lots, Evanston; want home equity. 1969 24 463 Home equities are built up to 10% only in the seventh year after endorsement if real estate prices rise by approximately 2% per year. 2007 20 Aug. 16/1 Go ‘piggybacking’: Take out a home-equity loan against your new house to meet those minimal payments. the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > other farms 1749 W. Ellis ii. i. 119 By the Decease of his Father in the Year 1746, he took his Home Farm into his Hands, that before was rented by a Tenant at about seventy Pounds a Year. 1805 R. Parkinson i. v. 200 On his home-farm he had above one hundred acres of wheat. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ 19 The Mains..had been the Castle home farm in the long past times. 2002 (Nexis) 20 June 7 Alongside the mansion and home farm were threshing barns, a granary, stone rick stands,..all of which are unaltered and being restored to their original uses. the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > fed or nourished > well fed or nourished 1573 T. Tusser (new ed.) f. 30v Fat, home fed sowce, is good in a howse. 1780 W. Combe IV. 127 Such an education, assisted by parental arts, will continue the childhood of the home-fed boy to an advanced period of life. 1858 R. S. Surtees lxxv. 329 He had killed a south-down,—not one of your modern muttoney-lambs, but an honest, home-fed, four-year-old. 1904 Dec. 87/1 If it is necessary to inspect so closely our home-fed animals we would suggest that it is quite as essential that the carcases of foreign-killed animals should also be examined. 2007 D. Favre & A. E. Hunt v. 61 I felt sorry for those TV people. They were used to dressing Hollywood size fours, and now they found themselves facing a couple of home-fed Mississippi girls. society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > navy > a naval force or fleet > [noun] > specific fleet 1705 J. Michelborne ii. iii. 76 Tis our Home Fleet is come in, our two Privateers that were Abroad. 1797 Ld. Nelson Apr. (1845) II. 374 Had there been no Fleet in the Channel, the French might have come up the Mediterranean and taken us all; therefore the Home Fleet certainly took care of us and covered us. 1883 15 Sept. Our harbour is once more almost empty, as the Home Fleet are fishing off Douglas. 1904 14 Dec. 162/1 The Present Home Fleet is to be called the Channel Fleet. 1906 24 Oct. 7/4 A distinct fleet will be constituted from the ships in commission in reserve, to be called the ‘Home Fleet’. 1922 W. C. King 127/2 Germany, in addition to her home fleet, had eleven warships in other seas, protecting her thousands of merchant vessels. 2001 R. Moore 10 A Mediterranean Fleet was based at Malta and Gibraltar until 1967, when it was merged with the Home Fleet. 1903 July 329/2 We fell to talking about home and the flag and Hail Columbia and home-fried potatoes. 1954 26 Mar. 15/1 These herbed, home-fried potatoes are especially good with broiled lamb chops, fish steaks and other foods that are not highly seasoned. 2008 J. D. Doss ii. 8 A breakfast of three fried eggs, a slab of Virginia ham thick as a boot sole, a heap of crispy home-fried potatoes and a quart of steaming black coffee. 1927 21 June 6/1 If these gods were anything like our own Lindbergh, they relished now and then an order of ham and sunny side up, a good cup of Java and a side of home fries. 1955 5 Feb. 89/3 To potato chips, French fries and home fries can now be added ‘potato flakes’, a new kind of dehydrated mashed potato. 2000 S. Heighton i. i. 17 Home fries fringed and crowned with the rusty crackling Torrins knew his son loved. 1853 12 May On our second floor we keep a complete line of Home Furnishing Goods of all styles. 1858 115 Let all your home-furnishings and surroundings be typical of comfort, typical of order, typical of refinement. 1959 12 Oct. 73/1 For a long time fur went out of fashion as a home furnishing. This fall, fur..is the newest style in rugs. 1989 15 Apr. 11/1 You can buy a certain ensemble of home furnishings, scents, clothes, sports, clubs and interests in a sort of matched job lot, called a lifestyle. 2002 B. Batchelor v. 101 Bok counseled them on everything from proper decorum to home furnishing and decoration. 1676 J. Fox 144 The Husbandmen have their home-Harvest. 1729 G. Jacob Medsypp, A Harvest Supper, or Entertainment, given to the Labourers at Home Harvest. 1877 I. Banks (1881) v. 40 The bustle and excitement of the Home-harvest had unfitted the ordinarily active little woman..for a walk in a broiling sun. 2009 J. A. Flammang xi. 223 Thanksgiving, which joins together the pre-Christian European folk tradition of home harvest with Christian festivals thanking the Virgin Mary for a wholesome food harvest. 1600 F. Hastings sig. A3v I wish them all from my heart, that as they are home-borne, so they may be home-hearted Subiects. a1810 R. Tannahill (1815) 142 His valorous deeds he might boast undisguis'd, Yet home-hearted landsmen hold Tom as a stranger. 1945 3 Dec. 62/3 More International Sterling is now being made. And more and more home-hearted women are making it their choice. 1843 Jan. 44 It needs but a few steps more to drive this home-heartedness wholly out of doors. 1853 E. S. Sheppard I. 7 A domestic presence of purity, kindliness, and home-heartedness. 1915 E. C. Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich i. 25 A kind of home-heartedness carried me on to effort with the stirring sense of life's revealings. eOE (Royal) (1865) ii. xxxvii. 244 Mettas..swa swa sint scilfixas finihte & ham [&] wilda hænna [L. gallinae domesticae et phasiani et perdices] & ealle þa fugelas þe on dunum libbað. 1862 8 Feb. The cases of sickness now under treatment in the Home Hospital, Market-street. 1877 4 May 7/2 (heading) Home hospitals for the well-to-do. 1887 21 Sept. 15/2 Miss P…has opened a home-hospital in Weymouth Street. 1993 R. B. Rosenburg viii. 149 After the last veteran died in 1934, the home hospital was converted into apartments for the last seven widows. 2008 10 27 The chaos of war changed life for many nurses who had to work hard in a physical environment very different to home hospitals. 1691 H. Kelsey in (1929) 18 They would not venture down fearing lest ye home Indians would not let ym up again. 1706 in G. Williams (1975) 55 Two canoes of home Indians came from the north shore. 1952 A. Malkus 9 The Home Indians came into the Fort with their furs. 2010 A. Sweeny ii. 31 The following spring, Knight ordered Stewart to take Thanadelthur and travel west with a large party of 150 Crees (Home Indians) and try to make peace with the Dene. 1810 Aug. 76 It is to the home influence of the Bible Society that Dr. Wordsworth is chiefly inclined to object. 1852 C. M. Yonge xiv. 255 Marian had..weakened the only home influence..which held Caroline to the right. 1966 D. Jenkins v. 208 Home influence..[is] a major factor in determining whether people will be able to take advantage of educational opportunities. 1996 D. B. Chesebrough 28 These men had been good and honest individuals but had become the victims of mischievous home influences. 1875 3 June 349/1 In a great conflagration..home insurance, in however solvent or trustworthy companies, is a delusion and a snare. 1916 Jan. 23/2 Heretofore we have been talking to ourselves and among ourselves about our ‘home insurance’. 2005 C. Rush ii. 79 I'm dealing now with all the old witch's affairs: home insurance, Council Tax, gas, electric, British Telecom, Home Care, bank, lawyer and vet, all in a shambles. 1806 1st Ser. 7 504 General Norton..suggested..that troops in the home islands should be attested to serve..until 6 months after the termination of any war. 1948 C. L. B. Hubbard xviii. 205 In its home islands it [sc. the Shetland sheepdog] is known as the Tounie Dog or Peerie Dog. 2000 P. Moore (2001) xxiii. 390 Lara was from Trinidad, and not much liked outside his home island. 1791 29 Oct.–1 Nov. The decayed popularity of M. Neckar is a home lesson to the vanity of Statesmen. 1853 19 Feb. (Suppl.) 4/6 Another feature in the progress of the year is the extensive purchase of school-books made by the children, and the consequent introduction of home lessons. 1887 10 Sept. 1220/2 Home lessons, also, are longer and more exacting than with us. 1905 June 403 I was surprised one day to find the following problem given to the girls for a home lesson. 2000 A. B. Elliot xxiii. 210 The Schroeder's two young children..were being educated with home lessons, supplemented with radio programs. 1709 J. Swanne 15 Letters sent into Foreign Parts, to be allowed for receiving to the Purser in Proportion to their Postage, as home Letters. 1894 H. Nisbet 212 Have you got your home-letter ready? 1998 K. Ayres 70 The home letters make me so lonesome I have to bite back the tears. society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan > other loans 1851 3 June 6/4 Foreign Exchanges... Amsterdam... Home Loan, Three per Cents. 1859 27 Aug. 244/1 The impression, however, appears to prevail that the home loan has a firmer hold upon the credit of England than that which is raised in India. 1892 July 118/1 He was employed in a Home Loan office, and had to keep track of petty chattel mortgages. 1919 B. F. Moore (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) vi. 92 There was a threat in the home loan that if it was not subscribed the Government would resort to forced contributions. 1921 5 Mar. 16/2 Electing to take either a cash bonus or to receive a farm or home loan. 1966 7 Apr. 12/1 The ban on home loans by local authorities has been lifted. 2009 5 Oct. 31/1 Many mortgage companies extended home loans to low- and middle-income applicants who couldn't afford to repay them. 1822 J. M. Good II. 747 Home-longing, when at a remote distance from one's friends and country. 1900 Aug. 166 Down there in far Brazil there begins to stir a home-longing in him. 2004 L. Anderson ix. 76 No one can promise either Jews or Palestinians that their home-longings will be resolved any time soon. 1811 J. Crowther iii. 260 The home missions, properly speaking, include those among the poor benighted Roman catholics in Ireland, those in Wales, who preach in Welsh, and those in different dark, neglected, and very wicked parts of England. 1855 E. C. Gaskell 27 July (1966) 363 Papa..finished up his Home Mission with an address to the Students in the Chapel. 1932 Feb. 2 (heading) Extension Magazine The Official Organ of the Home Missions. 1990 7 June 10/3 He was a natural choice to become leader of the Home Mission Division, and has made his own distinctive contribution to its life. 1809 P. Mitchell iii. 131 You have done every thing in your power to check the success of our home missionaries. 1842 1 232 I had occasion to accompany a home missionary into a few of the dens of London. 1889 2 Nov. What may be called the home-missionary spirit. 1938 M. C. Boatright in B. A. Botkin (1949) i. iv. 96 A Presbyterian home missionary came to a cabin and engaged a woman in conversation. 1990 22 Oct. 465/1 The relations between the women home missionaries and the male society they challenged. 1721 H. Maxwell 21 Do you think they cou'd get a Home Monopoly, as for Instance, of Tobacco? 1842 19 Mar. 5/3 The consumer is most of all to be benefitted by the removal of prohibitions or prohibitory duties by which the home monopoly has been made absolute. 1920 Sept. 239/1 The tariff protected home monopoly has always the threat of foreign competition to prevent their raising prices too high. 2003 J. F. Richards xvi. 594 The Dutch Noordsche Compagnie maintained its home monopoly until successful challenges from aspiring independent Dutch whalers and merchants led to its demise in 1642. 1848 W. T. Thompson xvii. 147 You musn't call the nigger waiters, boy, nor uncle, nor buck, nor any frendly, home name. 1886 27 Nov. 569 Her home name is ‘the Princess Mary’. 2003 A. Vanderhoof (2005) 117 Evette tells us to call her by her ‘home name’, Dingis—‘I was a very small baby, and dingis are little boats’. 1982 10 i. 36 The device that will be at the heart of the home network will be long debated. Suffice to note that an enhanced television with a 16-bit micro-processor..could, with today's technology, run a timeshared home bus network. 1998 Nov. 66/1 Your PC is lonely. Night after night it hums quietly to itself... It's time to build a home network. 2009 (Nexis) 20 Oct. 10 The new HomeGroup feature helps share files, folders, printers and storage devices across a home network. 1664 Earl of Arlington 8 Apr. (1701) II. 18 This, I hope, will find your Excellency safe arrived at Madrid, whither we have nothing to send you yet..except it be our home News. 1852 E. C. Gaskell 2 Mar. (1966) 181 I don't think there is much home news. Last week was very quiet; and very busy with writing. 1936 5 Aug. 144/3 It is one of our principles that our students should earn while they learn, and for this reason our first practical efforts will be in the realms of the easiest department of Romantic Journalism, namely Home News. 2004 P. Lennon 10 Alongside home news, popular items tend to include TV guides, cartoons, horoscopes and stories about star personalities. society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > number 1898 30 Mar. 3/4 In each case the soldier gave his home number and street. 1907 May 246/1 After a good deal of trouble he got his home number, but it was not his wife who answered him. 2001 B. Broady 135 I dialled the home number and then redialled and redialled but always got the unobtainable's flat-line blare. 2008 (Nexis) 9 Feb. After that it's time to input the address, and that's when things get interesting. The site gives you the option to enter a home number and street name. 1757 II. ii. 24 The Surgeon..thought of visiting his home Patients before he should take the Ride to the 'Squire's. 1827 59 Persons residing in Lincoln..unable to attend at the dispensary, shall be deemed home-patients. 1990 D. Zibell-Frisk in A. S. Bloch xxvii. 321/2 The nurse has an active role in teaching home patients how to administer parenteral nutrition. 1898 Nov. 436/3 Telephones, Main 2818 and Home Phone 53.] 1902 4 Oct. ii. 4/3 (heading) Home 'phone promised sure. 1968 70 1077/2 The caller employs a lexical item, and perhaps an intonation, that is standardly used by called parties in answering their home phones. 2009 G. Alexander v. 49 The next morning Madden called Larry on his home phone. 1840 11 Aug. 4/2 His colonial preferment was by no means an eligible compensation for the surrender of his home position. 1847 12 Jan. 637/1 Certain changes of the solar system in its own home positions. 1900 T. M. Lindsay v. 113 His kingdom was the most compact in Europe, his home position secure, and his foreign policy had hitherto been successful. 1922 R. C. Bryant iii. 58 After the log has been slabbed on one side and turned, all knees are again set in the ‘home’ position. 2001 P. Verdin & N. Van Heck i. 40 Having your home position attacked by a competitor, whether local or global, is a serious thing. 2007 C. L. Wilson x. 193 She raced back to her home position on the grid. 1696 C. Davenant 33 I do not see how such Prohibitions would at all Advance the Vent of our Home Product. 1772 A. Young iii. §iii. 91 What a population is here! and what a consumption of necessary manufactures and home products! 1874 ‘G. Hamilton’ vi. 106 The truth is, the foreign fabrics are of better quality than our home products. 1914 4 July 13/1 The seller of certain home products such as ‘Mother's Cleanser’ and ‘Miller's Lasting Starch’. 1928 L. North 270 Rotarians and women's clubs wrote her letters applauding her patriotic stand for home-products. 1970 19 Aug. 8/4 (heading) Carbon tetrachloride use in home products banned. 2010 D. McNeill & K. McNamara in M. K. Goodman et al. vii. 150 The boutique hotel bedroom thus became a catalogue of home products that can be tried and tested. society > communication > broadcasting > radio broadcasting > [noun] > radio service > specific 1939 15 Nov. 10/3 M. Reynaud..spoke last night in the B.B.C. home programme. 1948 1548 1663 The programme account..is not broken down as between the Home, Light, and Third Programmes. 2001 J. Stapleton 167 The distance between the Home Programme and the Third Programme was described by one BBC executive as that ‘between Malcolm Muggeridge and Isaiah Berlin’. 1687 R. L'Estrange I. ii. x. 229 Now This was a very short Answer, to a Home Question. 1741 S. Richardson IV. xxxv. 198 I will be your Judge, and put home Questions to you. 1878 J. Payn II. xi. 111 ‘How much has he a year?’ inquired Mrs. Wardlaw simply. ‘Well, really,’ said Miss Milburn, ‘that is rather a home-question.’ 1977 D. W. Jones (2003) xii. 142 That was a home question. 1830 Jan. 215 The graziers, and drovers, and little shopkeepers, look with apprehension to the loss of their cheap and home remedy for recovering their debts. 1850 9 105/1 The expensiveness of the Water-Cure at the establishments, then, is an argument for its employment as a home remedy. 1926 Feb. 43/2 The best home remedies for coughs are inhalations of steam and mustard pastes. 2002 D. W. St. John i. 35 She doesn't want him popping her neck or anything even vaguely painful. She doesn't want anything but her bed. ‘What are we talking about here?’..‘A home remedy that works.’ 1965 8 Mar. 1/5 (advt.) Write Home Reversions Department, M.G.S. & Co. 1990 Aug. 459/3 Home reversions. You sell all or part of your home to a specialist company, which agrees to pay you an income for the rest of your life. But there may be problems if you need to move later. 2004 A. Vice vi. 94 As we are all living longer, you can see why roll-up mortgages and home reversion schemes favour the over 70s. 1915 191 Using the letters and words which have been learned on the ‘home row’ proceed to introduce these new letters into combinations forming new words. 1981 8 Jan. 67/2 The fingers tend to locate themselves on the ‘home’ row (where they are based), making touch typing easier. 2010 E. E. Peterson in I. E. Catt & D. Eicher-Catt i. 72 I can hear my typing teacher intoning: ‘feet flat on the floor, back straight, eyes on the text, arms out level, fingers on home row.’ 1941 July 209 (advt.) On your own home screen—gorgeous full-color ‘stills’—with Kodachrome. 1985 13 Oct. f16/3 The upper right-hand corner of the ‘home screen’, the first to appear when one begins working on the spreadsheet. 1997 H. Hood v. 164 Tonight we are going to try to bring to your home screens as accurately as possible transmissions directly from the interior of the spacecraft. 2008 J. Chen & A. Pash ii. 24 All you need is right there on the home screen, and each application will launch as soon as you tap the respective application icon. society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > types of signal system > types of signal 1857 12 July 8/4 There are three parallel rows of marks impressed on the surface of the paper—the innermost representing the home signal, the next the distant signal, and the third the seconds. 1867 Rep. Accidents on Railways 23/1 in LXII. 219/1 The station is protected by distant signals in both directions, worked by wires from the east of the passenger platform, and by a home signal of inferior construction. 1889 G. Findlay 68 The distant signal is placed at varying distances behind the home signal, according to circumstances. 1940 A. E. Tattersall i. 16 Home and starting signals only for each direction at stations on single lines which are staff or electric token posts will be necessary. 2001 S. Hall (ed. 3) 35/1 The first stop signal at a signalbox is known as the Home Signal. At some signalboxes there may be more than one Home Signal, known variously as Outer and Inner Home Signals. 1730 ‘The Mariner’ 11 The Home Squadron takes the Middle Station, the Middle the Foreign, and the Foreign the Home. 1837 15 Dec. The Senate passed a bill to-day, to authorize the establishment of a Home Squadron for the protection of navigators on the Atlantic coast, and sent it down to the House. 1904 6 June 5 New battleships and cruisers for the home squadrons would be an infinitely better investment. 2002 in M. E. Wagner et al. vii. 548 After Lincoln proclaimed a blockade of Confederate ports, the extensive..Southern coastline and the dearth of Union ships made it impossible for the existing Home Squadron to carry out the president's order. 2008 D. I. Hall v. 75 Fighter Command released eighty-seven Hurricanes from home squadrons and Bomber Command contributed forty-one Wellingtons and eighty-five Blenheim IVs. 1826 26 July (advt.) Some valuable hills for Sheep, making it an invaluable station for large Stockholders, as a home station. 1865 M. A. Barker (1870) v. 31 By the time we reached the Home Station we were ready for luncheon. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ (1891) 353 They were fairly on the sandy home-station track. 1903 30 Mar. 2/2 What military stations abroad are now reckoned as Home stations. 1941 9 Oct. 174 The Havocs fly out over enemy aerodromes when the night bombers are returning and shoot them down over their home stations. 2002 (Nexis) 15 May 83 He runs 40,000 Merinos on the home station. 1834 Jan. 259 The consequences of taking them out of the market are just as good for some of the home-stayers, as the consequences of their not been sent there can be bad for any of the others. 1908 G. A. B. Dewar viii. 173 Save for their impulses of migration, most butterflies are essentially home-stayers. 2003 F. Itani ii. 62 Bernard is the home-stayer. That is what Mother calls him. 1773 J. Boswell Jrnl. 19 Aug. in (1785) 55 Dr. Watson observed, that Glasgow University had fewer home students, since trade increased, as learning was rather incompatible with it. 1826 2 Sept. 47/1 He now returned to his father's house; and..settled down into a most arduous and unwavering home-student. 1876 11 446 The amount of money received from foreign students, together with what is paid by home students who study the languages and take painting and drawing lessons, is not far from $1,600 per annum. 1979 29 Nov. 680/2 Because the British educational system is designed primarily to service ‘home’ students, the minority of overseas students should be treated as a ‘marginal’ cost. 2009 P. Herriot iv. 128 The presence at home of one of the parents is a strong predictor of the choice to home-school (61% of home students vs. 26% of state school students). 1876 29 Sept. Miss Hardy is a lady of rare ability and comes of a family of artists, and we recall with emotions of pleasure, many a delightful hour passed in the gallery belonging to the home studio. 1950 Sept. 218/2 Free-lance artists who use a corner of the basement as a home studio will appreciate this large drawing-board easel. 1970 19 Dec. 6/1 The music is boastfully casual, scraps of his home studio. 1993 Apr. 89/1 Both Basehead and Sebadoh are bands whose records will always sound like something cooked up on a home studio. 2010 R. Mariz ii. 19 I'd really like recording and mixing gear for a home studio. 1956 17 Aug. 9/4 (caption) The tape will permit home taping of TV shows. 1981 29 Oct. 3/8 The campaign..has as its theme ‘home taping is killing music’. 2010 B. S. Noveck in D. Lathrop & L. Ruma iv. 68 Fearing a loss of ad revenue from customers' home taping, the movie studios and television broadcasters initially feared the new tools. society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of 1893 878/2 (heading) A loud home telephone. 1978 8 Oct. 10/2 If—repeat, if—the security forces have been tapping the home telephone of the editor of the Economist. 2006 W. Werris 280 I'd received many calls on my home telephone from individuals wanting to place orders with me rather than through the proper bookstore channels. the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > other types of land 1703 35 They have no Gold or Silver growing in the Bowels of their home Territories. 1833 G. P. Scrope xv. 390 Treating the most fertile and accessible of our colonies as an extension of our home territory. 1957 13 142/2 Automation..is home territory for Clark Controller. 1993 4 Feb. ii. 11/4 Johnson was on home territory, Schubert, Mahler and Strauss, and working with an artist with radiant equipment, a big operatic colourful voice. 2010 J. C. A. Boeyens ix. 310 Space exploration has confirmed the theoretical picture of the solar system, which we now consider as home territory. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > a cinema > [noun] > types of 1914 19 Dec. 10 (advt.) With town entertainments scarcer than ever, this world-popular instrument [sc. a ‘His Master's Voice’ gramophone] becomes indispensable. It is a veritable Home theatre. 1971 15 May d16/2 While the TV sets packaged in consoles may be fine, the cabinetry is often inferior. Most designers will be happy to testify to the fact that the ‘giant home theaters’ are aesthetic sins. 1999 May 90/1 This kit is good enough to serve as your PC's speakers or as a capable addition to a home theatre. 2009 T. Smyth & T. Dewar xiii. 128 Now we shop online, seek entertainment from our home theatres, and plug into MP3 players. 1829 Emmanuel in 14 Nov. 742/3 Around thee draw thine own home ties. 1911 J. E. Stuart xii. 207 The only security is a complete armour of self-control based on faith, and a home tie which is a guarantee for happiness. 1931 10 Feb. 4/5 Swinton, should they survive to-morrow's game at Featherstone, will have a home tie with Halifax. 2001 N. G. Schiller & G. E. Fouron iv. 77 Many immigrants thus continue to nurture their home ties as a source of financial security. 2009 D. Macionis i. 11 A home tie against Middlesborough looked on paper like a desirable one. 1883 1 May 87/2 Many of our Liberal churches in the West have but one service on the Sunday. The rest of the day is home-time for the congregation. 1974 28 310/1 They remained there with their teacher until home-time at 11 am, except for two five-minute and one longer break. 1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold ii. 199 She only flashed the green light after Katzenberg..vowed that Steven would still have plenty of home-time to spend with Kate and the kids. 2003 P. Kay et al. 1st Ser. Episode 2. 34/2 Come on, Captain, home time. I want to lock up. 1697 G. Stanhope tr. P. Charron II. iii. iii. 412 Frankness of Humour, and Home-Truths by way of Admonition or Reproof..are yet seldom well taken. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury III. Misc. v. iii. 328 If he has indiscreetly spoken some Home-Truth. 1843 G. W. Le Fevre II. i. xiii. 16 People who pique themselves upon telling home truths. 1935 C. Isherwood xv. 243 Arthur's orientally sensitive spirit shrank from the rough, healthy, modern catch-as-catch-can of home-truths and confessions. 1992 J. Torrington xxii. 190 Let's face some home truths, Clay; you're a moral skunk, a feculent fuckup of a man. 1864 Jan. 54/2 He had one foot in the stirrup, and the other on the soft home-turf. 1916 Jan. 31/2 Similar success on the polo field can be chronicled; not only on the home turf where every summer brings a long series of well contested matches. 1973 22 Feb. 29/1 ‘Jive’..is very daring. Daring quite simply because it challenges Jerome Robbins on his home turf. 2000 J. Goodwin i. 14 By the time the trusty Donny Dodger has carried me back to home turf, I can sense I'm losing it slightly. 2010 P. Daniels xxix. 191 He was having to go all surreal and internal—which wasn't his home turf (or mine) by any stretch of the imagination. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > flat or apartment 1929 17 Aug. 4/5 These modern home units are just nearing completion, being specially constructed to fill the long-needed want of the small family. 1933 Dec. 847/2 With the present four-story plan, Roadtown would house 200 home units per mile. 1973 26 Aug. 11/2 (heading) A bolt of lightning damaged a block of home units at Vaucluse. 1993 M. Gee (1994) 49 Dorothy Skeat..stayed on in the house until the mid sixties, when she sold it for a very nice price and bought a home unit in Epsom. society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > [noun] > consultation session > in patient's home 1750 93 It is very seldom that the Christians pay any of these home Visits, because the Algerines..have their several Rendezvous. 1869 3 Apr. 462/2 In 1865, 203,393 Assistance doctors' home visits were made. 1982 M. T. Tsuang viii. 65 [Patients] can be helped by..home visits from..a psychiatric community nurse. 2007 7 Jan. 10/3 Fortunately, the patient responded to a home visit by a multidisciplinary team of three consultants using psychodynamic dream therapy. the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun] > in specific part of world 1838 Mar. 158/2 The consequent agitation which must often possess those who are re-entering upon home waters. 1915 R. Kipling 26 From the peace of the German side he had entered our hectic home-waters. 2003 Sept. 28/1 Awarded DSO in 1944 for making Sceptre one of most successful S-boats in home waters and part in Operation Source, towing X-class midget submarines to attack Tirpitz. 1836 2 July 6/2 Young ladies for home wear have dresses of white Scotch cambric. 1878 7 Feb. 87/3 Various colored threads..to mark the various articles of home wear. 1915 20 Nov. 326/1 Evening dress..has ceased to exist, its place being taken by smart little demi-toilettes for restaurant and theatre wear, and rest-gowns that are really restful for home wear. 2007 J. Chamberlain 75 This time she was dressed in a cotton trouser suit with wooden peg buttons—simple home wear. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cxvii, in (1878) IV. 130 Soe farre Devided..as hee shall not heare Home-whineinges. 1732 E. Boyd 122 The Dutchess had now been six Months missing, and was on the first home Wind on her Return. 1855 H. W. Longfellow iv. 61 Ruler shall you be..Of the home-wind. 1892 R. Kipling 177 The East Wind roared..‘And me men call the Home-Wind, for I bring the English home’. 1996 S. Maitland (1998) 12 Will he come..out of the sunset boldly with the sails set filled with a home wind and a golden light? 1838 Mar. 490 The next class of songs most popular among the Swiss are those expressive of their attachment to their native hills, and of their melancholy or ‘home-woe’ when away from them. 1894 T. Hardy 136 One of the worst of the sufferers from this home-woe, as he called it in his own tongue, was Matthäus Tina. 1921 Mar. 191 Ah, blame men not, that, yielding to the homewoe's ceaseless urge, They yearn from land to land..Seeking ever the golden shores of desire. 1849 I. 84 Often..did strange and affecting images of that home worship, the supplications and tears of his wife and little ones for their wandering father, pass over his memory. 1917 50 110/2 In the older type of home worship three factors were prominent: a priest, a guidebook, and a definite plan of worship. 2005 C. Barner-Barry iv. 95 Usually, home worship for Pagans involves only members of the circle, coven, grove, kindred, hearth or nest, and their invited guests. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). homen.2 Origin: Probably formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: homelyn n. Etymology: Probably shortened < homelyn n. rare. the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > raia maculata (homelyn) 1836 W. Yarrell II. 429 The Homelyn Ray,..The Home, Sand Ray, and Spotted Ray. 1902 Oct. 221 It is necessary to point out that R. circularis of Day is the Homelyn Ray—Home, Sandy, and Spotted Rays of Yarrell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). homev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: home n.1; home adv. Etymology: Partly < home n.1, and partly < home adv.Compare also Old English gehāmian to settle or establish in a home, to obtain a home for (one isolated attestation in reflexive use; < y- prefix + home n.1):OE (Northumbrian) Aldred Colophon (Lindisf. Gospels) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Doc. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 36 Aldred presbyter..[ðis boc] of'gloesade on englisc & hine gihamadi mið ðæm ðriim dælum: Matheus dæl Gode & Sancte Cuðberhti, Marc dæl ðæm biscope, & Lucas dæl ðæm hiorode, & æht ora seolfres mið to inlade; & Sancti Johannis dæl for hine seolfne, .i. fore his saule..þætte he hæbbe ondfong ðerh Godes milsæ on heofnum. society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] 1802 R. Southey Let. 28 Nov. in C. C. Southey (1850) II. ix. 195 When I am housed and homed. 1852 P. J. Bailey (ed. 5) 174 Homed and heavened within the embrace of God. 1864 5 792/2 As colonists or as settlers [they] have homed themselves all the world over. a1914 ‘M. Field’ Ras Byzance ii, in (1918) 151 She and I together Were homed as one within my province. 1985 Dec. 52/1 Given a call from the local supermarket to say that 200 turkeys are left over and in need of a table, Salvationists have been known to home the lot within two days. 1993 June 76/2 (advt.) Each year thousands of cats which could have been homed are being needlessly put down simply because there is nowhere for them to go. society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] 1832 J. Bree 160 He homed where man had immortal grown. 1890 R. Bridges iii. 13 Dost thou..home in our creations? 1919 39 244 A thousand years later came the Aramaeans,..homing in Mesopotamia, and drifting into Babylonia. 1966 S. R. Delany i. i. 9 The exhaustion and pressure of the last months homed in his belly,..harshening his words. 1993 V. Scannell 75 Above the town, on Beacon Hill, the rain Homed in her hair as sweetly as on leaves. society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > go home 1847 ‘Everpoint’ 141 I'd now got to hum [1845 go hum] to my wife. 1878 May 846/1 Withheld from homing to my Italy. 1893 14 Oct. 559/1 Your tourist is homing from abroad. a1903 W. E. Henley (1921) 194 A spent witch homing from some infamous dance. 1958 M. Kerr ii. 21 The married life of..Mr. F., has broken up on more than one occasion. He has always then homed to his Mum. 1990 D. Davie (new ed.) 427 Black Hoyden homing from the mill. 4. the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [verb (intransitive)] > of homing pigeon: fly home the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (intransitive)] > return home from a distance 1854 1 573/2 It is generally considered that a cock [pigeon] homes quickest when driving to nest, and a hen when she is feeding squabs. 1889 24 Aug. 6 One bird [sc. a swallow] homed from Paris in ninety minutes. 1899 12 Apr. 9/1 The first [pigeons] homed at Brest at nine o'clock yesterday evening. 1934 E. S. Russell iv. 71 Chiton tuberculatus..keeps to one limited area and does not wander very far, though it does not appear to ‘home’ to a particular spot as does the limpet. 1966 R. Ardrey (1967) iv. 134 No random hunting or zigzag uncertainties marred the voyages. Sunfish truly home, and home to territories. 1971 17 Sept. 218/2 Visual recognition of their external surroundings..was used to resettle birds to ‘home’ to new loft-sites in place of old ones. 2002 G. Mccafferty xlvii. 192 The bird homed to base at 11.20 a.m. the same day. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [verb (transitive)] > train or fly pigeons 1877 20 July 456/1 A race between a carrier pigeon and a mail train took place on Friday last from Dover to London. The pigeon was of the Belgian breed, and was ‘homed’ to a house in Cannon-street. 1928 29 July 22 Leatham (Downpatrick) has achieved what many thought impossible—viz., homing a bird from San Sebastian (Spain), distance over 800 miles, to the Emerald Isle. 1997 (Nexis) 6 Jan. 18 He had to use Imbrogno's birds as breeding stock only, however, since they were now permanently homed to the wrong house and unable to race any more. 5. the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards [verb (intransitive)] > as if to a target society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > home on landmark or radio beam 1920 Mar. 728/2 The pilot can detect instantly from the signals, especially if ‘homing’ towards a beacon. 1940 44 569 The tanker must be equipped with D.F. gear, so that the two aircraft may ‘home’ on each other if visibility is poor. 1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington 119 Torpedoes and bombs that follow or ‘home’ on to their targets. 1968 Nov. 107/1 The only way another ship could get here would be to home in on the drone that our Line ship homed in on. 1971 23 Aug. 1/5 The other helicopter located the dinghy by homing in on the bleeping of the emergency distress [call]. 2000 T. Carew (2001) ix. 193 The SAM-7 is a tail-chaser. It homes on exhaust emissions. 2006 10 July 464/2 A cluster bomb that can deploy scores of small bomblets with individual guidance systems to home in on specific targets. the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > be absorbed in [verb (intransitive)] > be intent > on a focal point 1955 C. M. Kornbluth 53 That was near. He crossed the street and it was nearer. He homed on the thought. 1971 16 Sept. 629/1 Mexico's Professor S. F. Beltran homed in on education as a critical need. 1985 Jan. 18/2 In England, the soaps home in on the working and lower-middle classes. 1996 C. Bateman ix. 70 ‘Hi, Jackie,’ I said. His small blue eyes homed in on me. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). homeadv. Origin: Apparently a word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Apparently cognate with or formed similarly to Old Saxon hēm (only in hēmbrung ‘act of bringing home’; Middle Low German hēme , hēm ), Old High German heim (Middle High German heim , German heim ), Old Icelandic heim , all in sense ‘to or towards one's home’, uses as adverb of the accusative singular of the respective cognates of home n.1 With the syntactic development compare the use of the accusative as case of direction in classical Latin īre domum ‘to go home’. As Old English hām home n.1 frequently shows endingless dative singular hām in locative function after prepositions (see discussion at that entry), it is not entirely certain that the adverb hām reflects adverbial use of the accusative rather than the dative. However, the fact that in Old English the adverb typically occurs after verbs implying motion (see sense 1a) or (more rarely) in contexts implying ellipsis of such a verb (see sense 1b) suggests adverbial use of the accusative. The locative use in sense 1e perhaps developed by ellipsis (e.g. of a past participle of verbs of motion in phrases such as is gone home or is come home ; compare quot. a1393 at sense 1a). Locative adverbs in cognate Germanic languages, on the other hand, show contrasting adverbial uses of the accusative singular of the noun to indicate the goal of motion and the dative singular to indicate position or rest at a place; with the latter compare the following: Old High German heime (Middle High German heime; superseded by German daheim (Old High German thār heime, lit. ‘there at home’, Middle High German dā heim, dā heime)), Middle Low German hēme, hēm, all in sense ‘at one's home’. Old Icelandic heima ‘at home’ shows a use as adverb of a morphologically distinct noun. 1. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adverb] > home > homewards OE (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 53 Hyg cyrdon ealle ham [OE Lindisf. in hus hiora; L. in domum suam]. lOE (Laud) anno 1100 Ðeoses ylces geares eac innan hærfest com se eorl Rotbert ham into Normandi..fram Ierusalem. c1175 ( (Bodl. 343) (1894) 30 Heo comen alle ham to þam wife. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) l. 1531 (MED) Wan he [sc. the husband] comeþ ham [a1300 Jesus Oxf. hom] eft to his wiue, Ne dar heo noȝt a word ischire. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) vi. l. 1493 Here king is come hom ayein. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 69 Now gos he home. ?a1475 (1922) 27 (MED) I krepe hom to my stynkyng stalle. 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. ii. f. 35v She shuld be restored home again to her husbande. 1578 in W. H. Stevenson (1899) IV. 181 Or fetche anne wayre whome vpon the Sabothe Daye. 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in (Wing C4662) 37 God would have chang'd his doome, Not forc'd him wander, but confin'd him home. 1673 J. Locke Let. 14 Feb. in H. R. F. Bourne (1876) I. 317 You may possibly bring home with you a new use of our Bath waters. 1719 D. Defoe 229 I lugg'd this Money home. 1780 J. Boswell Jrnl. 18 Feb. in (1977) (modernized text) 182 When I came home, was sick and threw up. 1831 J. Sinclair II. 208 The value of the ship and cargo, going out and coming home. 1850 C. Kingsley II. v. 55 O Mary, go and call the cattle home. 1884 W. C. Smith 50 I'll see Miss Ina home. 1918 W. Faulkner Let. 22 Nov. in (1992) 134 They are going to start demobilization about Monday, so that..I'll be on my way home in three weeks. 1962 16 Aug. 163/1 His girl-friend..challenges him to ‘borrow’ the car of her choice..and drive her home in it. 1995 C. B. Divakaruni (1997) 284 I hurried home from work. OE (Nero) ii. lxxiii. §2. 360 Þeah heo [sc. wuduwe] nydnumen weorðe, þolige þæra æhta, butan heo fram þam ceorle wylle eft ham ongean. OE (Tiber. B.i) anno 1049 Se cing lyfde eallon Myrceon ham. 1417 in (1904) 15 130 Dies Jovis yo carte to Kryngylforth for a lode stre home to yo Hospital. c1425 (Huntington) (1948) 172 Borowed þing wole home, My leue childe. c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 2216 Hom to myn cuntre dare I nat for drede. a1500 (?a1475) (Cambr. Ff.2.38) l. 8385 (MED) I wyll home to myn own lande. 1583 T. Stocker tr. i. 112 a The fugitiues..had..made their reckoning, that they should home to their houses. 1611 L. Barry v. i. sig. H4 I will home, On with my neatest robes, perfume my beard, Eate cloues, Eringoes and drinke some aquauita. 1668 S. Pepys 12 Oct. (1855) IV. 33 Here we met with Mr. Batelier and his sister, and so they home with us in two coaches. 1674 J. D. v. i. 63 I will home and claw my Wife, my fine whorish Wife, away for this. 1715 J. Browne & W. Oldisworth II. 266 Thank you for your kind Advice, That I may home, and learn to be more wise. 1796 G. Colman i. i. 12 I must home to the lodge quickly. 1825 J. Neal I. vi. 172 Break up your meeting! Home to your houses! 1859 G. Meredith II. v. 74 ‘Shall we home?’ Adrian inquired. 1915 Oct. 280 We stayed for tea at the club house and then home again. 1997 C. Coulter (1998) xxi. 187 I'll reevaluate her again in the morning. Now I'm home to bed. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adverb] > in or to native land OE Wulfstan (Hatton) (1957) 150 Cyrus..gefreoda..eal þæt Iudeisce folc þe þa on life wæs & let hy faran ham to [heora] earde. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 53 Chirus..let hem..faren hom in to ierusalem. 1581 P. Wiburn 124 The proclamation for the recalling home of her Maiesties subiectes from beyonde the seas. 1613 S. Purchas 523 (note) A letter which was brought home by the last Indian Fleet. 1698 152 They [sc. Roman colonists]..were subject to be call'd home, if the Romans thought fit to dissolve the Colony. 1762 in B. Peirce (1833) 278 The persons who sued for it will make application home for another [Charter]. 1827 E. Griffith et al. IV. 267 A specimen somewhat inferior in size was brought home from Sierra Leone by Colonel Charles Maxwell. 1874 J. Gairdner (1875) vii. 133 The Regent Bedford..wrote home to the government in England. 1908 11 June 6/4 Sir Robert Hart, who to-day returns home, as people in the East call it, after a residence of nearly fifty years in the Chinese capital. 1961 H. S. Commager (1962) p. vii Minnesota farmer-wives painfully writing letters home to the old country. 2003 E. Feinstein (2008) xii. 92 Finally, in 1948, we were allowed to return home. Israel is the home of the Jewish people. the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] the world > life > death > [adverb] > towards death 1561 F. Coxe sig. Av Let his sweet rod example be Of late, you saw did fall Into suche as profest the lyke Whome God now home doth call. 1604 W. Shakespeare v. i. 227 Yet heere she is allow'd her virgin Crants, Her mayden strewments, and the bringing home Of bell and buriall. 1618 B. Robertson i. viii. 344 Our dead are not dead but..deliuered from this wicked world, and gone home to the Lord. 1779 J. Newton in J. Newton & W. Cowper i. liii. 68 But when home our souls are brought, We will love thee as we ought. 1798 S. Rowson (1799) II. xvi. 353 I expect thou dost know already that Jacob Holmes is gone home. 1816 W. Scott III. iii. 60 But ye are sure your mother, the Lady Countess, is gane hame? 1856 Extra Christmas No, 6 Dec. 21/2 Guide and guard me with Thy blessing, Till Thy Angels bid me home. 1913 May (end matter) (advt.) The complete manuscript of this booklet was found amongst the papers of the author after God called him home. 1999 M. Lucado (new ed.) xviii. 190 The old saint tells us that when we get home, God himself will wipe away our tears. society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [adverb] > home society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [adverb] > home > at home c1580 ( tr. (1925) I. i. l. 805 The stoutest of vs all..Sall sone ȝarne erar hame to be Than [etc.]. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. xvii. 202/1 in (new ed.) I They [sc. ships] will be there in thirtie or fourtie dates, & home againe in Cornewall in other eight weekes. 1615 S. Ward 13 True zeale loues to keepe home..: false zeale loues to be gadding. 1726 W. R. Chetwood 349 The Secretary would have me home with him. 1787 J. Cobb i. iii. 13 Your brother seem'd very anxious for your arrival, he will be home soon. 1848 E. Dickinson c14 Feb. (1894) I. 72 Only twenty-two weeks more, and then home again you will be to stay. 1885 W. D. Howells II. i. 20 Like people who have been home from Europe three years. 1914 A. M. N. Lyons i. i. 13 Their sons, late of the Great School, home from India on leave and unanimously worrying small moustaches of the tooth-brush pattern. 1971 J. Blume 125 Why can't I stay home and loaf around. 1977 A. Cooke i. 41 He would give his Japanese servants the sternest orders that he was home to nobody and would not answer the phone. 1997 D. Quinn (1999) 256 After a long, boring layover in Atlanta, I was home before midnight on Friday. 2. figurative. eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1871) lii. 405 Ðæt he gecyðde, ða ða he him sealde æ, & hi mid ðære ham gelaðode, & oft sende his englas us ham to spananne to him. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 289 His [sc. Christ's] merci is hire [sc. the soul] eauer ȝearu hwen se ha wule cumen ham. ?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) viii, in (1881) 4 192 (MED) Þi wit is comen hom. a1450 ( in J. Kail (1904) 50 (MED) Glade in god, call hom ȝoure herte. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. a*iiiv Whiche may nat longe..beare such eleuacions of the soule, but anone calleth it home. 1576 A. Fleming Ep. Ded. sig. ¶iijv Hauing called home my wandering witts. 1581 W. Charke in A. Nowell et al. (1584) iv. sig. Aaij Howsoeuer you labour to auoyde the direct course of disputation..I must call you home by and by. 1629 H. Burton 31 This comes home to my stating of the question. a1644 F. Quarles (1645) vii. 43 Call home thy selfe: Inspect thy selfe anew. 1686 W. de Britaine (ed. 3) Ep. Ded. sig. A3v If the World would spend that time in active Phylosophy..and come home to business. 1716 C. Bullock ii. 9 Good noble Lord, bethink you of your Birth, call home your antient Thoughts from Banishment. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile 467 in I We call your thoughts home..To the poppy-plains. 1872 H. T. Ellacombe Bells of Church in iii. 225 This is continued till the end of the peal, when the bells are brought ‘home’ to their regular places. 1922 A. Brown xx. 225 He..tried to summon his mind home from her, to fix it on Tenney. 2000 T. A. Easton (new ed.) vii. 57 Her gaze aimed toward some vague place beyond the walls of the room. Yet she noticed his expression and drew her attention home again. the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [adverb] > to one's normal consciousness the mind > emotion > calmness > self-possession or self-control > [adverb] > to self-possession 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin iv. xii. f. 75v Chastisement of wordes sufficeth..which may not harden nor confounde the synner, but bryng hym home to hymselfe. 1606 Bp. J. Hall xxi. 148 That great King..now comming home to himselfe..complaines, that [etc.]. 1660 T. Fuller ii. xxxii. 48 Manasseh..came home to himself, and destroyed the profane Altars, he had erected. 1841 tr. 191 We found no end to these daydreams of the heart, till we came home to ourselves in the world of reality. 1894 Mar. 166/1 While he spoke, it was as if I came home to myself. 1949 B. Willey viii. 232 We must drag him back from this enchantment, break its spell, and bring him home to himself. 1994 M. Kinder (1995) ii. vii. 157 It turned out that this self-knowledge was more important to him than intense striving to make money. He came home to himself. society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [adverb] > in full discharge of (bill or debt) 1527 Will of Nicholas Grenam in C. W. Foster (1918) II. 61 And when I ame broght whoom, and my dettes paid, my other good not bequieth I bequieth to Augnes my wyfe. 1573 Will of Alexander Webbe in J. O. Halliwell (1907) II. 408 I will that..my funerall to be well executed and donne, and my bodie honestly brought whome. 1607 T. Middleton ii. sig. C4 You brought her forth, she may well bring you home. 1707 C. Cibber iv. 56 The very Moment I get home the Summ I am out to him, I'll throw up my Cards. 1760 C. Johnstone II. i. ii. 9 Her patroness..having lost every rubber; and, what was still worse, several by-bets which she made to bring herself home. 1782 F. Burney V. ix. ii. 19 He has taken a very good road to bring himself home again. 1806 R. Cumberland (1807) I. 256 I believe he got home pretty well upon the sale of it. 1831 W. Scott (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xiii The book-seller..is at once, to use a technical phrase, ‘brought home’, all his outlay being repaid. 1886 14 They..determined to let this particular race be their getting-home stakes. 1895 M. E. Braddon in 6 Nov. 1/3 The publisher..has to consider whether he can ‘come home’ upon the publication of a book by a new writer. 4. the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > intimately or closely the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > [adverb] > into close and effective contact the world > relative properties > relationship > [adverb] > intimately or closely > into close contact the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adverb] > completely or thoroughly 1532 T. More iii. p. ccxc Let hym put that in fygure when he can and set there to ye cause that moueth hym therto, to byleue no chyrch wythout scrypture or myracle, and yet wyll all togyther wyth .xvi. syllogysmes brynge hym shorte home. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus f. 218 To be pared home ieste for ieste. 1588 J. Udall sig. F4v If they happen to speake home nowe and then. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. v. 92 No farther halting: satisfie me home, What is become of her? View more context for this quotation a1664 M. Frank (1672) i. 49 To drive that lesson homer. 1697 T. Smith in H. Ellis (1843) (Camden) 255 Wicked enough..to forge..old writings..and to charge this home upon the Monks. 1722 D. Defoe 348 The Witnesses swear so home against you. a1825 R. Forby (1830) (at cited word) The meat is home done. 1858 N. Hawthorne II. 13 One who cannot get closely home to his sorrow. 1935 B. Malinowski II. vi. vi. 357 The real problem before us:..how to bring home the real meaning of a meaningless, or at least distorted word. 1961 ‘W. Cooper’ iii. v. 179 ‘I enjoyed it tremendously,’ Harry repeated, just to make sure the point had gone home. 1996 S. Robinson ix. 158 Nothing else could have brought it home to me so clearly that my pain was Eddie's, and Eddie's pain was mine. the mind > will > intention > [adverb] > to its intended target the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] > contiguously > into close contact or close against a1555 J. Bradford in J. Foxe (1583) II. 1663/1 You hit me home, and geue mee that I looke for. 1586 A. Day i. sig. Q2 God when he striketh smiteth home. 1669 S. Sturmy 16 Hawl home the Top-sail Sheets. 1677 Earl of Orrery 17 Those will charge the homest, who find they are strongest, at the grapple. 1686 J. Goad iii. ii. 403 Strike the Nail homer yet. 1706 J. Oldmixon 6 Heav'ns dread Vengeance tho its Pace is slow, Strikes Home and brings the proud Aspirer Low. 1769 W. Falconer (at cited word) In the stowage of the hold, &c., a cask, bale, or case is said to be home, when it bears against, or lies close to some other object, without leaving any interval between. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in II. xxi. 502 True he lodg'd The arrow on the centre of the bow, And..drew home Nerve and notch'd arrow-head. 1831 W. Youatt x. 164 Some horses are what is called ribbed home; there is but little space..between the last rib and the hip-bone. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville (1864) xii. 83 She could see that her thrust had pierced home. 1897 E. Wood xii. 226 That the squadrons should ride home on the enemy as far as possible. 1948 F. Blake i. 46 The thuck of arrows striking home. 1985 Dec. 38/3 Screw the magazine cap fully home. 2000 K. Govier iii. 57 A punch hit home in the solar plexus. 5. Nautical. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [adverb] > to or towards ship 1578 G. Best ii. 38 We were agayne driuen [from Lundy], being but an open roade, where our Ancker came home. 1603 R. Knolles 724 Her ankers came home, and she driuen vpon the flats, was cast away. 1644 H. Mainwaring at Shearing They are faine..to steere her upon the tide, for feare she should shere-home her Anchors (that is, draw them home). 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter iii. v. 334 A sudden gust of wind brought home our anchor. 1779 C. Clerke Jrnl. 7 May in J. Cook (1967) III. i. 655 Part of the Ice..brought home our Small Bower Anchor. 1813 42 238 He was sorry to inform him that the anchors came home. 1910 Feb. 733/1 The clumsy anchor was hauled home, the broad sail spread to the western breeze, and Signor Luigi steered a straight course into the bosom of the night. 1977 P. O'Brian vii. 204 Sometimes the anchors came home or were broken or were lost altogether. 1996 A. Deane xv. 267 Strong gusts of wind came off the land at that moment and the anchors came home. 1664 E. Bushnell 11 Then set off the Tumbling Home, at the Height of the two first Haanses. 1711 W. Sutherland 165 Tumbling home, when the Ship-side declines from a Perpendicular upwards, or, as some call it, houses in. 1833 T. Richardson 13 Giving only six inches tumble home of the topside. 1884 H. Hall ii. 63 The curving home of the stem above the hawse holes went out of vogue, and vessels became longer in proportion to beam. 1918 W. J. Thompson 85 The turtle back commences at the bulwark rail, and it is from its falling home, or rounding at that point, that it derives its name. 1995 J. Moran iii. 14 Where the seats are located, the sides are flared halfway up for maximum stability, then strongly tumbled home at the top for paddling comfort. the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [adverb] > towards 1668 T. Allin 24 Oct. (1940) (modernized text) II. 54 A very brave deep bay and the stormy wind seldom blows home. 1699 W. Dampier iii. i. 3 On the East side [of any continent], the Easterly Wind being the true Trade-Wind, blows almost home to the shore. 1772 J. H. Moore 143 With regard to the Sea bringing home the Log or a Swell, it must be left to the Judgment of the Mariner. 1793 J. Smeaton (ed. 2) 193 Nothing to hinder the Ground Swells..from coming home upon the Edystone Rocks uncontrouled. 1794 Ld. Hood 5 Aug. in Ld. Nelson (1845) I. 476 (note) The wind not blowing home to the shore with so much violence. 1841 10 602 Taking the precaution not to go into the bays to leeward of Maraccas, as the high mountains prevent the wind there from blowing home. 1894 6 Sept. 3/1 It is one of those harbours where, as the sailing book says, ‘a swell is apt to come home’—especially with a north-easterly wind. 1902 (U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office) (ed. 4) II. v. 244 In the rainy season it is very light and seldom blows home to the shore. 6. society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [adverb] > home or base 1743 E. Hoyle ii. 13 This Method is to be pursued till all your Men are brought home. 1778 T. Jones 185 In order to prevent B from getting his Man home. 1812 39 184 The ball did not reach half home. ?1856 F. E. Smedley xliv. 326 I..beg to enter a horse of mine..in order to discover whether Broth-of-a-boy can show him the way home. 1897 634/1 G. Martin, Essex Beagles, was the first man home. 1913 24 Aug. s1/3 Fisher chased the pair home with a triple to the wall in left centre. 2000 K. T. Thomas et al. (ed. 2) 501 If the hitting team gets home before the ball gets to the end of the line it is a run. 1902 Sept. 449 But while insurance companies in general were thus scraping home, what was the London and Lancashire doing? 1946 C. Mann in 27 We always were lucky. He's home on the pig's ear. 1955 30 June 4/1 Nielsen's strength, his power of service, but not least his tactical skill in attacking Rosewall's service at all costs, just and only just got him home, when the whole issue was in doubt until the very last point. 1973 13 Sept. 744/1 I led a low Diamond and ruffed with dummy's Eight of Spades. When this stood up, I was home. 2007 S. L. Carter (2008) 442 That was it. Almost. Almost. She could even overlook the perfidy of his motivation in the realization that she was nearly home. 1873 13 Oct. 6/6 In the second round out Morris got four to the bad... In coming home, however, Morris managed to pull up on his opponent, and on reaching the last hole both were even on the day's play. 1909 July 53/2 The best score of the round was returned by Geo. S. Lyon who went out in 39 and home in 38. 1960 9 Jan. ii. 3/7 Coming home he found the cup with one putt on the 11th, 13th, 14th, 16th and 18th while bagging birdies at the 11th, 14th and 18th. 2001 D. Kilfara viii. 125 Par-bogey-par. Home in 38, round in 75. Five over. Phrases P1. society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)] the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)] > decrease in quantity or number > return home with reduced number society > travel > aspects of travel > return > [verb (intransitive)] > fail to return the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > fail to reach goal or objective 1548 f. clxxvv The erle of Warwicke had come to short home, to tel these tidynges, if the duke..might haue had his awne will. 1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ sig. Giv Fiue of them came short home, and the most doulte of all remained behinde. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy xxxiv. xiii. 861 Many of his enemies were caught up and came short home. 1655 T. Stanley I. iii. 29 Take heed your head come not short home. 1677 W. Hubbard (1865) II. 93 Many of the young Men..did, Sundry of them, come short Home. 1712 J. Warder 57 And will venture in, tho' they come short home. 1720 D. Defoe 200 He had not always..Success in these Enterprizes, for sometimes we came short home. 1762 5 Should Emergencies..require it, I fear 200l. will come very short Home. 1878 Nov. 13 The gang-class are desperate villains as a rule, and..if one of them comes short home sometimes, it is nobody's loss, as a man who goes out prepared to kill is a murderer. the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > happen unfortunately [verb (intransitive)] > suffer misfortune or a mishap c1555 sig. Dvv You thinke they come home by Tiburne, or S. Thomas of Watrings, and so they do in dede. 1596 J. Harington sig. C7 An hundred thousand of them came home by weeping crosse. 1603 H. Crosse sig. I2 They..come home by Need-ham crosse, and fooles acre. a1610 J. Healey tr. Cebes' Table in tr. Epictetus (1636) 154 He that either refuseth it or misapplyeth it, comes home by unhappinesse and ruine. 1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme 56 Making an Irruption into Provence, he came home by Weeping-Cross. 1972 P. O'Brian vii. 180 You watch out, cully, or you'll come home by Weeping Cross. P2. the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > have an effect on [verb (transitive)] 1625 F. Bacon (new ed.) Ded. Duke of Buckingham sig. Aiiiv I doe now publish my Essayes; which, of all my other workes, haue beene most Currant: For that, as it seemes, they come home, to Mens Businesse, and Bosomes. 1660 R. Boyle Pref. 16 He has already provided, that this piece shall..be done into Latine, that so it may come home to divers worthy Persons. 1713 R. Steele No. 48. 313 Applause must never come quite home to them. 1769 ‘Junius’ (1772) I. xvi. 111 There is no precedent in all the proceedings..which comes entirely home to the present case. 1823 9 106/2 It..comes home to the heart with a refreshing and harmonizing power. 1862 T. Carlyle III. xii. xii. 377 That Walpole will probably be lost, goes much home to the Royal bosom. 1866 15 Aug. 730 All at once it had come home to her that this love was to be hurled back upon her heart; that the man beside her had been merely trifling with her. 1931 4 Nov. 496/1 Yet we have to admit that these songs ‘get home’ on us: that, singing them, we become as little children. 1957 R. Hoggart (1959) 139 It was in the latter half of the last century..that the effects of these changes first came home forcefully to the bosoms of working-class people, in the extension of the franchise. 1958 29 Aug. 3/4 I know that a lot of this will not get home among those who do not want to resolve discord. 1999 A. S. Fink & J. Press 292 At that point I think it came home to me how nasty I had been. 1659 N. Hardy (ii. 15) xxi. 418 That he might bring the charge home to their consciences, he repeats it with the change of the Abstract into the Concrete, Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world, is an enemy of God. 1742 Sept. 425/2 Neither Boteler, nor any of them, can charge the Minister. It is Paxton only can bring the charge home to him. 1795 Ld. Nelson in (1845) II. 104 I..demand..that the person..do fully, and expressly bring home his charge. 1826 Jan. 17/1 He could not bring his charge home to any definite person. 1869 E. A. Freeman III. xii. 207 The charge is..not brought home to William. 1915 G. O. Trevelyan (new ed.) II. xx. 341 The Revolutionary authorities were unable to bring the charge home to a single one of the perpetrators. 1970 in V. Kumar (1979) IX. 269/2 The longer an investigation is deferred the greater the difficulty in bringing the charge home to the defaulter. 1997 1 May 27/3 The charge of having vegetarian proclivities has now been brought home to four species. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > official announcements [verb (transitive)] > proclaim (banns) > proclaim (people or their names) 1653 in G. P. R. Pulman (1875) (ed. 4) ii. 133 William Walker and Loveday Michel have bin called home at Froom Vauchurch three several Sundaies by me. 1763 J. Woodforde Diary 19 June in (1969) 135 For calling two People Home, I received 0. 2. 6. 1793 Dec. 1083/2 Called home, asked in church by banns; and this, either first, second, or third time. King's Sedgemoor. 1872 T. Hardy II. v. i. 179 Didn't Dick and Fancy sound well when they were called home in church last Sunday? 1891 T. Hardy II. xxxii. 153 You was not called home this morning. 1896 Apr. 355 In less than three months we were ‘called home’ at church, which is what they sezs in our part for ‘publishin' the banns’. 1908 M. P. Willcocks xxvi. 386 And 'Lisbeth Ann wouldn't hear of the banns being called home without he'd give her everything right and proper. the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > utter boastfully [verb (transitive)] > boast of the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [phrase] 1846 July 192 Slow-tongued and unimaginative men, they found little to write home about.] 1868 Aug. 205/2 Now, at last, you have something to write home about! 1903 D. Streamer 27 A timely adjunct, I've no doubt, But not worth writing home about. 1914 ‘I. Hay’ xxix. 291 ‘Anything doing at present?’ ‘Nothing to write home about, thanks.’ 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark i. 33 Fair to middling,..nothing to..shout about, nothing to wire or write home about. 1950 A. Baron 11 Oh, this is something to write home about, all right. 1958 3 Nov. 3/6 But for much of the day there was little to write home about as M.C.C.'s last eight wickets fell for 125 runs. 1967 V. Canning ii. 25 He has a small place in the country... Don't run away with the idea of anything worth writing home about when I say ‘place’. It's a crumby little cottage. 1998 S. Andrews xxii. 130 Her husband's not much to write home about as a lover. 1852 18 Feb. In case any of us are attacked, we are constantly guarded by the police, breakfast, dinner, and going home time. 1897 Nov. 18/3 After tea, when the candles had been blown out, the big cake cut and tasted, and going-home time had come. 1950 24 331/1 Ten o'clock in the evening marks the going-home time for hundreds of youths and adults who participate in community-organized programs that use the facilities of thirteen Wilmington public schools. 2005 P. Pink iv. 21 Seems from then on it rains three times a day—going to work, lunchtime and going home time. 1893 Aug. 484/1 ‘Eureka!’ cried Mr. Weatherlow. ‘Sor?’ answered his coachman... ‘Home, James!’ shouted Mr. Weatherlow, and in fifteen minutes he was at work in his laboratory. 1921 Jan. 78/2 Clarence E. Lewis drives up to work in his Nash and then, when his day's work is over, one will hear ‘Home, James, and don't spare the gas.’ 1927 E. Wallace viii. 114 ‘All right, Paul,’ returned Mr. Sparkes... ‘Home, James.’ ‘James’ grinned in the darkness, and the car moved forward. 1964 P. G. Wodehouse xi. 213 Okay, Watson, drive on. Home, James, and don't spare the horses. 1981 23 Nov. c9/1 Often you need only relax, sit back and give your horse loose rein, which is the equine version of ‘Home, James’. 2004 J. Kelman (2005) 54 I was sitting myself down for a relaxing couple of beers and then it was home james dont spare the horses. 1896 (Amer. Dial. Soc.) 1 397 In hi-spy and similar games a player is said to be home free when he ‘touches the gool’ before it is touched by the person who is ‘it’. 1922 9 Aug. 15/1 You'd think it was the best of fun To see me jump and dodge and run, And reach the home base first of all, And then ‘Home free! home free!’ I call. 1943 7 Nov. 12 c/2 Nobody will head off the Irish this season... The Irish are home free. 1949 22 Jan. 20/1 The Republicans down here are so badly split up the Democrats are home free. 2007 G. Hurley xii. 230 Mackenzie's taking the piss. He thinks he's home free. He thinks he's been home free for years. the world > action or operation > completing > [adverb] > safely or successfully at the end of something the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [adverb] > successfully at the end of something arduous 1917 1 June 8/5 ‘Are you British?’, he asked. ‘Yes’ was the answer... ‘Come on, Stewie’, he said to his mate. ‘We're home and dry.’ 1918 Oct. 14/1 All being home and dried, ‘Shorty’ went over to the ‘Q. Emma's’ to borrow a bit of ‘buckshee’ sugar. 1930 V. Palmer i. x. 86 You've done it this time, Lew! Home and dry on the pig's back! 1963 8 Feb. 1/1 Labour members felt after the ballot that Mr. Wilson was ‘home and dry’. 1993 20 Feb. 14/1 Not so long ago there was an almost irresistible temptation to regard Newcastle as home and hosed in the First Division title race. 1995 E. Toman i. 49 If only he could survive the next hour he would be home and dry. Compounds C1. In sense 1. eOE tr. Orosius (BL Add.) (1980) iii. xi. 79 Ac he Umenis him wende from Antigones hamfærelte micelra untreowða. OE Nativity of Virgin (Hatton) in B. Assmann (1889) 125 Þa ætywde hyre drihtnes encgel and hyre gecigde þone hamsið [c1175 Bodl. hamsið] hyre gemæccan. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) v. l. 925 (MED) Naulus..And Oetes..Accorded ben..to ordeyne at her hom passage To werke fully in-to her damage. 1474 in (2007) 1474/5/4 That the custommaris sall..tak soverte..of ilk a mercandis for the hame bringyne of bulyeon. 1493 in (2007) A1493/5/12 For the honorabill hamebringing of a quene. a1572 J. Knox (1587) 79 The hoame calling of the Dowglas and other such as appertaine to a vniuersall historye of the time. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer (new ed.) xvi. 200 T'attend the home-turne of my neerer kind. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 59 My wife..Made daily motions for our home returne. View more context for this quotation a1630 D. Hume (1644) 240 Entertained his home-bringer, the Chamberlain, and given him a thankfull meeting for that work. 1847 G. Grote IV. ii. xxxiv. 361 The adventures which took place at the passage of that river, both on the out-march and the homemarch, wherein the Ionians are concerned, are far more within the limits of history. 1870 W. Binnie in C. H. Spurgeon (1871) II. Ps. xlv. Introd. The home-bringing of Christ's elect. 1891 W. Morris i. 2 As the home-farer caught sight of it. 1902 Aug. 629/1 The home returning of some of us is less pleasant than it should be. 1927 W. E. Ritter xi. 192 Perhaps it is not justifiable to suppose serious injury results from such home-rushing. 2002 A. Friedman & D. Krawitz iv. 109 Home-returners are made up of divorced adults with their own children who need a place to stay after the dissolution of their households. OE (1955) 72 Repatrio, ic hamsiþie. OE Aldhelm Glosses (Brussels 1650) in L. Goossens (1974) 232 Neque nubentur : ne hi beoþ ham brohte uel geæwnode. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas i. iii. 107 Weening to home-reuoke him With a Loue-potion. 1908 E. J. Banfield i. i. 20 Many a time, home-returning at night..has its tepid fragrance drifted across the water as a salutation and a greeting. 1586 W. Warner iv. xxii. 98 To winne and weare the home-brought Spoyles. 1749 A. Hill (rev. ed.) i. 4 Thy home-bent Radiance, re-display'd, Struck the dim Doubter, and dispell'd the Shade. 1838 J. Pardoe II. 52 The salutation of the home-speeding mariner. 1863 31 Oct. 234/2 Angostura bitters from home-returning Jack. 1908 12 Dec. 6/3 Who holds up to her home-come soldier's lips The babe he hath not seen. 1916 T. Dreiser iv. 123 (stage direct.) Peers out still further, sees a home-hurrying plumber and retreats. 2008 C. E. Richards & K. L. Richards 392/2 A congregate lunch is served at the center five days a week with home-driven meals to homebound seniors. a1656 Bp. J. Hall (1660) ii. 237 The Canon is fully and home-charged. 1681 J. Oldham Prol. 4 That its each home-set thrust their blood may draw. 1755 J. N. Scott 16 Struck brave Agènor with home-thrusted Spear. 1814 44 147 The most ingenious, home-directed..cuts. 1820 W. Scott I. xv. 317 The home-driven poniard of Roland Græme. 1870 E. H. Dering 27 In all times the voice of the people doth crown With loud-echoing praises a home-driven thrust. 1909 Feb. 6/1 It was usual for them to end the sermon with a home-directed and overwhelming application. 1938 A. Kazin in 16 Oct. ix 5/4 This play—witty, noisy, full of crackle and home-driven insight—fails to master. C3. 1682 22 This is (as you think) home-put indeed. 1751 S. Richardson (ed. 3) II. xxii. 137 Very home put, truly! 1794 I. 89 The difficulty to resolve the home-put questions of those who have too much sense and spirit to accept high sounding words and abuse in the place of sound argument. 1861 J. Legge I. ii. i. 192 Tsze-go is strangely insensible to the home-put argument of the Master. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.1adj.eOE n.21836 v.1802 adv.eOE |
