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Bearing holsters. Byron.

Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton. Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth.

Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible. Milton.

Violent; impetuous; headstrong. Spenser. Peacham.

Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.

isting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C. With many hundreds treading on his heels. Shak.

An inhabitant or freeholder of a hundred.

A hundred times as much or as many. He shall receive as hundredfold now in this time. Mark x. 30.

Coming last of a hundred successive individuals or units.

A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short…

Hungry; pinched for food. [Obs.] Milton.

Hungered; hungry. [Archaic]

Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.

Wanting beauty or attractiveness; deformed; ugly; ill-looking. Ill-favored and lean-fleshed. Gen. xli. 3. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ly, adv. -- Ill`-fa"vored*ness, n.

Impolite; rude.

Of habitual bad temper; peevish; fractious; cross; crabbed; surly; as, an ill-natured person.

Ill-bred. Shak.

Fated to be unfortunate; unlucky; as, an ill-starred man or day.

Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. [Obs.] So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.

Having banners.