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Webster 1913 Edition

Home-bred

Home′-bredˊ

,

Adj.

1.

Bred at home; domestic; not foreign.

“ Home-bred mischief.”

Milton.

Benignity and

home-bred

sense.

Wordsworth.

2.

Not polished; rude; uncultivated.

Only to me

home-bred

youths belong.

Dryden.