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   Home , a.
   Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
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   Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
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   (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.
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   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, 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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   Stretch, n.
   Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach; effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a stretch of the imagination.
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   By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain.
   Dryden.
   
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   Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, to the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative.
   L'Estrange.
   
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   A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
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   A great stretch of cultivated country.
   W. Black.
   
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   But all of them left me a week at a stretch.
   E. Eggleston.
   
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   The extent to which anything may be stretched.
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   Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify no more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of mind.
   Atterbury.
   
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   This is the utmost stretch that nature can.
   Granville.
   
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   (Naut.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
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   Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
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   To be on the stretch, to be obliged to use one's utmost powers. -- Home stretch. See under Home, a.
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