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adjective

Home adj.

1.

Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

2.

Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.

3.

(Games) In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal; as:

(a)

(Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands; same as home base and home plate.

(b)

(Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player.

Home base or Home plate (Baseball), the base at which the batter stands when batting, and which is the last base to be reached in scoring a run.

Home farm, Home grounds, etc., the farm, grounds, etc., adjacent to the residence of the owner.

Home lot, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home stands. (U. S.)

Home rule, rule or government of an appendent or dependent country, as to all local and internal legislation, by means of a governing power vested in the people within the country itself, in contradistinction to a government established by the dominant country; as, home rule in Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of Parliament.

Home ruler, one who favors or advocates home rule.

Home stretch (Sport.), that part of a race course between the last curve and the winning post.

Home thrust, a well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal attack.

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"Home rule" Quotes from Famous Books

... COUNTIES.—Generally, county authorities are narrowly limited by the state constitution and state statutes. This has always resulted in numerous appeals to the legislature for special legislation, and has lately given rise to a demand for home rule for counties. In the effort to reduce the pressure for special laws in the legislature, the Michigan constitution of 1908 provided for a measure of home rule for counties. The legislature is authorized to confer legislative powers on the county boards, which may pass laws and ...

— Problems in American Democracy • Thames Ross Williamson

... be an obstacle to every reform in the British Empire. We shall prevent the Chinese being sent out of the Transvaal and the blocks being stopped in the Strand. We shall be the conversational substitute when anyone recommends Home Rule, or complains of sky signs. Therefore, do not imagine, in your innocence, that we have only to melt away among those English hills as a Highland cateran might into your god-forsaken Highland mountains. We must be eternally on our guard; we must live the hunted life of two distinguished criminals. ...

— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton

... returned as a Home Ruler (one of the few Liberals who adopted this policy before Mr Gladstone's conversion) in 1886 for South Edinburgh, and was home secretary in the ministry of 1886. When the first Home Rule bill was introduced he demurred privately to its financial clauses, and their withdrawal was largely due to his threat of resignation. He retired from parliament in 1892, and died on the 29th of January ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various

... was duly organized on the 16th of September, 1799, and was remarkable for the ability and distinction of its members, most of whom had been soldiers in the Revolutionary War. This was the beginning of home rule in Ohio. The life of the territorial legislature was brief. Early in January, 1802, a census was taken of the inhabitants in the eastern division of the Territory, now the State of Ohio, by which it was found that it contained 45,028 persons. Congress promptly authorized the people to ...

— Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. • John Sherman

... "Home Rule—no, I needn't ask you that, for it is a dead horse which we don't want to flog, and now-a-days we are all in favour of a big navy, so I think that is about everything—except, of course, anti-vaccination, which you'll run for all ...

— Doctor Therne • H. Rider Haggard

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