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† ˈhomeling Obs.
[f. home n. + -ling.]
A home-born inhabitant; a native. b. attrib. or adj. = Indigenous, native.
1577Harrison England ii. ix. (1877) i. 189 So long as our homelings had the dominion of this Ile. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxii. viii. 200 The homeling inhabitants cal it Achileos-dromon. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 37 Which (homelings) from this little world we name. |