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Meaning of HOME-BRED

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Home"-bred`\, a.
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.
 

 

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