Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Home \Home\, adv.
   1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come
      home, carry home.

   2. Close; closely.

            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.

   Note: 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.