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roached the age of manhood. He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple.

warthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc. Street Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

h the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report for instruction, drill, or maneuvers; and (3) one or more classes of soldiers organized largely for territorial defense, living at home and having only occasional periods of…

Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.

on of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.

Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails.

Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

In baseball, a fence, prop. at least 90 feet behind the home base, to stop the balls that pass the catcher; also, the catcher himself.

, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. We might have . . . beat them backward home. Shak.

To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. Blair.

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.

The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof.

tion of happiness. So saying, he arose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:

A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep. The bleat of fleecy sheep. Chapman's Homer.

The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which…

A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat. As late the boatman hies him home. Percival.

; a cottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.

Purchased; not obtained or produced at home. Coleridge.

with an adverb of motion; as, a ship is bound to Cadiz, or for Cadiz. "The mariner bound homeward." Cowper.