How home the charge reaches us, has been made out.
South.
They come home to men's business and bosoms.
Bacon.
3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full
length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home.
Shak.
Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which
need no special definition; as, home- brewed, home-built, home-grown,
etc.
To bring home. See under Bring. -- To come home.(a) To touch or affect
personally. See under Come. (b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel,
instead of holding firm, as the cable is shortened; -- said of an
anchor. -- To haul home the sheets of a sail (Naut.), to haul the clews
close to the sheave hole. Totten.
Home"born` (hm"bÙrn`), a. 1. Native; indigenous; not foreign. Donne.
Pope.