Definition of house

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House (n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion..

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Landlord :: Landlord (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants..
Inmate :: Inmate (n.) One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling..
Lepisma :: Lepisma (n.) A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongated flattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by seven unequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found in houses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner, silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug..
Underpinning :: Underpinning (n.) The foundation, esp. of a frame house..
Corody :: Corody (n.) An allowance of meat, drink, or clothing due from an abbey or other religious house for the sustenance of such of the king's servants as he may designate to receive it..
Which :: Which (a.) A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1..
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse..
Stylist :: Stylish (a.) Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner..
Superficies :: Superficiary (a.) Situated or built on another man's land, as a house..
See :: See (v. i.) To be attentive; to take care; to give heed; -- generally with to; as, to see to the house..
Tabernacle :: Tabernacle (v. i.) To dwell or reside for a time; to be temporary housed.
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called the balks..
Huswife :: Huswife (n.) A female housekeeper; a woman who manages domestic affairs; a thirfty woman.
Their :: Their (pron. & a.) The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country..
Sempervive :: Sempervive (n.) The houseleek.
In :: In (adv.) Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the representative of an adverbial phrase, the context indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e., into the house)..
Move :: Move (v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another..
Gatehouse :: Gatehouse (n.) A house connected or associated with a gate.
Lombar-house :: Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
Victualer :: Victualer (n.) One who keeps a house of entertainment; a tavern keeper; an innkeeper.
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