1706. Farquhar, Recruiting Officer, ii., 1. That’s home.
1888. Sporting Life, 10 Dec. In the next round got home several times without a return.
1891. Licensed Vict. Gaz., 19 June, p. 395, c. 3. Mac got home a terrific cross-counter with the left on Bob’s left eye, which seemed to split the flesh open both above and below.
3. (turf).—To recover a loss; neither to win nor lose; to come out quits. Also, to bring oneself home.
4. (venery).—To get with child. Also, to compel the sexual spasm.
To make oneself at home, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To take one’s ease; to be familiar to the point of ill-breeding.
1892. Milliken, ’Arry Ballads, p. 10. As at home as a cat in a cream-shop.
To come home to, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To reach the conscience; to touch deeply.
To go (send, or carry) home (or to one’s last home), verb. phr. (colloquial).—To die; to kill; to bury. [The Chinese say ‘to go home horizontally.’] See Aloft.
1598. Florio, A Worlde of Wordes. Mandar ’al palegro, to send to ones last home.