Definition of dwell

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Dwell (v. i.) To delay; to linger.

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Poorhouse :: Poorhouse (n.) A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.
Cohabitation :: Cohabitation (n.) The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another..
Wone :: Wone (a.) To dwell; to abide.
Cortile :: Cortile (n.) An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.
Messuage :: Messuage (n.) A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household..
Hatchment :: Hatchment (n.) A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person are temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement..
Home :: Home (n.) A place of refuge and rest; an asylum; as, a home for outcasts; a home for the blind; hence, esp., the grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul..
Brood :: Brood (v. i.) To have the mind dwell continuously or moodily on a subject; to think long and anxiously; to be in a state of gloomy, serious thought; -- usually followed by over or on; as, to brood over misfortunes..
Estufa :: Estufa (n.) An assembly room in dwelling of the Pueblo Indians.
Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (n.) The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell..
Tectonics :: Tectonics (n.) The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas..
Neighbor :: Neighbor (v. i.) To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near..
Place :: Place (n.) A position which is occupied and held; a dwelling; a mansion; a village, town, or city; a fortified town or post; a stronghold; a region or country..
Uplandish :: Uplandish (a.) Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands.
Uplander :: Uplander (n.) One dwelling in the upland; hence, a countryman; a rustic..
Moving :: Moving (n.) The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changing one's dwelling place or place of business..
Troglodyte :: Troglodyte (n.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes..
Crannoge :: Crannoge (n.) One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake..
Recluse :: Recluse (a.) The place where a recluse dwells.
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