Definition for HOME'BRED

HOME'BRED, a.

  1. Native; natural; homebred lusts. Hammond.
  2. Domestic; originating at home; not foreign; as, homebred evil. Spenser.
  3. Plain; rude; artless; uncultivated; not polished by travel. Only to me two homebred youth belong. Dryden.

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