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Webster 1913 Edition
Homeling
Home′ling
,Noun.
A person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native;
as, a word which is a
. homeling
Trench.
Definition 2024
homeling
homeling
English
Noun
homeling (plural homelings)
- (obsolete) A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
- Trench:
- […] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.
- Trench:
References
- homeling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913