Sentence:  There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not <WSD>self-made</WSD> like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of a person, having achieved success by one's own efforts.