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/hoʊm rul/ Listen

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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Home rule" Quotes from Famous Books

... Monday, March 9.—When on conclusion of Questions the PRIME MINISTER rose to move Second Reading of Home Rule Bill, House presented appearance seen only once or twice in lifetime of a Parliament. Chamber crowded from floor to topmost bench of Strangers' Gallery. Members who could not find seats made for the side galleries, filling both rows two deep. Still later comers patiently stood at the Bar ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 • Various

... last of the old Border radicals. 'Glasgow's stinkin' nowadays with two things, money and Irish. I mind the day when I followed Mr Gladstone's Home Rule policy, and used to threep about the noble, generous, warm-hearted sister nation held in a foreign bondage. My Goad! I'm not speakin' about Ulster, which is a dour, ill-natured den, but our own folk all the same. But the men ...

— Mr. Standfast • John Buchan

... proportion of their income,"—also what the proportion will be, if they do. Don't know if I should have thought of it, if it hadn't been for General BOOTH's book. Remarkable person, the General. Perhaps he'd order his Army to vote solid for Home Rule, if I offered him a place in my next Cabinet? Must sound him on the subject. Salvationists quite a power now. Can't cut Field-Marshal VON BOOTH up in a Magazine, so ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., November 8, 1890 • Various

... of the Scotch Education Department used to include a recreative series of howlers that had been sent up in the various reports of the Government Inspectors. These tit-bits were well calculated to keep up the gaiety of nations. Of late years these howlers have been excised, but if Scotland had Home Rule they ...

— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes

... disunited; Germany is homogeneous. We are quarrelling about the Lords' Veto, Home Rule, and a dozen other questions of domestic politics. We have a Little Navy Party, an Anti-Militarist Party; Germany is unanimous upon the question ...

— Peace Theories and the Balkan War • Norman Angell

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