Definition of house

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House (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel..

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Housewifery :: Housewifery (n.) The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.
Hothouse :: Hothouse (n.) A bagnio, or bathing house..
Uncharnel :: Uncharnel (v. t.) To remove from a charnel house; to raise from the grave; to exhume.
Roofless :: Roofless (a.) Having no roof; as, a roofless house..
Saur :: Saur (n.) Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.
Tidewaiter :: Tidewaiter (n.) A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties..
Jerquer :: Jerquer (n.) A customhouse officer who searches ships for unentered goods.
Bedesman :: Bedesman (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman..
Superintender :: Superintendent (n.) One who has the oversight and charge of some place, institution, or organization, affairs, etc., with the power of direction; as, the superintendent of an almshouse; the superintendent of public works..
Kennel :: Kennel (n.) A house for a dog or for dogs, or for a pack of hounds..
Unhoused :: Unhoused (a.) Not provided with a house or shelter; houseless; homeless.
Burgage :: Burgage (n.) A tenure by which houses or lands are held of the king or other lord of a borough or city; at a certain yearly rent, or by services relating to trade or handicraft..
Purgery :: Purgery (n.) The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.
Fleaking :: Fleaking (n.) A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses..
Initiative :: Initiative (n.) The right or power to introduce a new measure or course of action, as in legislation; as, the initiative in respect to revenue bills is in the House of Representatives..
Trugging-house :: Trugging-house (n.) A brothel.
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..
Restaurateur :: Restaurateur (n.) The keeper of an eathing house or a restaurant.
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
Repertory :: Repertory (n.) A treasury; a magazine; a storehouse.
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