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2. Not polished; rude; uncultivated.

Only to me home-bred youths belong.

Dryden.

Home"-com`ing (?), n. Return home.

Kepeth this child, al be it foul or fayr, And eek my wyf, unto myn hoom-cominge.

Chaucer.

Home"-driv`en (?), a. Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close.

Home"-dwell`ing (?), a. Keeping at home.

Home"-felt` (-flt`), a. Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. "Home- felt quiet." Pope.

Home"field` (-fld`), n. A field adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.

Home"-keep`ing (-kp`ng), a. Staying at home; not gadding.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Shak.

Home"-keep`ing, n. A staying at home.

Home"less, a. [AS. hmleas.] Destitute of a home.

-- Home"less*ness, n.

Home"like` (?), a. Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

Home"li*ly (?), adv. Plainly; inelegantly. [R.]

Home"li*ness, n. [From Homely.] 1. Domesticity; care of home. [Obs.] "Wifely homeliness." Chaucer.

2. Familiarity; intimacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

3. Plainness; want of elegance or beauty.

4. Coarseness; simplicity; want of refinement; as, the homeliness of manners, or language. Addison.

Home"ling (?), n. A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench.

Home"ly, a. [Compar. Homelier (?); superl. Homeliest.] [From Home, n.] 1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. [Archaic]

With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft.

Foxe.

Their homely joys, and destiny obscure.

Gray.