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Divan :: Divan (n.) A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room..

Threshold :: Threshold (n.) The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door..

Lombard :: Lombard (n.) Same as Lombard-house.

Resolve :: Resolve (v. i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole..

Bawd :: Bawd (n.) A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman..

Bedlam :: Bedlam (n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.

Glasshouse :: Glasshouse (n.) A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

Peddle :: Peddle (v. i.) To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license..

Side :: Side (v. t.) To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house..

Furnace :: Furnace (n.) An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc..

Manteltree :: Manteltree (n.) The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses..

Spence :: Spence (n.) The inner apartment of a country house; also, the place where the family sit and eat..

House :: House (v. t.) To admit to residence; to harbor.

Shell :: Shell (n.) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in; as, the shell of a house..

Uncharnel :: Uncharnel (v. t.) To remove from a charnel house; to raise from the grave; to exhume.

Unhouseled :: Unhouseled (a.) Not having received the sacrament.

Housemaid :: Housemaid (n.) A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms..

Mont De Piete :: Mont de piete () One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house..

Crash :: Crash (n.) Ruin; failure; sudden breaking down, as of a business house or a commercial enterprise..

Situation :: Situation (n.) Manner in which an object is placed; location, esp. as related to something else; position; locality site; as, a house in a pleasant situation..

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