Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HOME'BRED
HOME'-BOUND, or HOME'WARD-BOUNDHOME'BUILT
HOME'BRED, a.
- Native; natural; homebred lusts. Hammond.
- Domestic; originating at home; not foreign; as, homebred evil. Spenser.
- Plain; rude; artless; uncultivated; not polished by travel. Only to me two homebred youth belong. Dryden.
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