home adv.:
1.
to its right or proper place, back
to the person or place from which a thing issued
MND. III. ii. 172
“now to Helen my heart
is home return'd,”
All'sW. V. iii. 225
“Send for your ring; I
will return it home,”
H8 III. ii. 159
“come home”
(=accrue to you),
Sonn. lxxxvii. 12
“Comes home
again”
(=returns to thee).
2.
to the point aimed
at, so as to reach, touch, or penetrate effectually
(freq. with verbs of striking or thrusting); hence
in various fig. connexions fully, satisfactorily,
thoroughly, plainly:—with “speak,” &c.,
Meas. IV. iii. 152
“Accuse him home and
home,”
Cor. II. ii. 108, III. iii. 1, IV. ii. 48,
Ham. III. iii. 29
“tax him home,”
Ant. I. ii. 114
“Speak to me
home”
; with “pay,”
&c., Tp. V. i. 71, Wint. V. iii. 4, 1H4 I. iii. 289,
Lr. III. iii. 13
“will be revenged
home”
; with “know, confirm,
satisfy, trust”
All'sW. V. iii. 4, Mac. I. iii. 120, Cym. III. v. 92, IV. ii. 328;
Wint. I. ii. 248
“play'd home,”
played to a finish.
