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Webster 1913 Edition


Homespun

Home′spun

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Adj.
1.
Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture; coarse; plain.
“Homespun country garbs.”
W. Irving.
2.
Plain in manner or style; not elegant; rude; coarse.
“Our homespun English proverb.”
Dryden.
“Our homespun authors.”
Addison.

Home′spun

,
Noun.
1.
Cloth made at home;
as, he was dressed in
homespun
.
2.
An unpolished, rustic person.
[Obs.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Homespun

HO'MESPUN

,
Adj.
Spun or wrought at home; of domestic manufacture.
1.
Not made in foreign countries.
2.
Plain; coarse; rude; homely; not elegant; as a homespun English proverb; a homespun author.

HO'MESPUN

,
Noun.
A coarse,unpolished, rustic person.