6. (Baseball) The home base; he started for home.

At home.(a) At one's own house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or

country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers.

-- Home department, the department of executive administration, by

which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at

home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it. -- To feel

at home, to be at one's ease. -- To make one's self at home, to conduct

one's self with as much freedom as if at home.

Syn. -- Tenement; house; dwelling; abode; domicile.

Home (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country;

domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

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