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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Indoor :: Indoor (a.) Done or being within doors; within a house or institution; domestic; as, indoor work..
Clearance :: Clearance (n.) A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail.
Pharos :: Pharos (n.) A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
Housing :: Housing (n.) A houseline. See Houseline.
Publican :: Publican (n.) The keeper of an inn or public house; one licensed to retail beer, spirits, or wine..
Canary Bird :: Canary bird () A small singing bird of the Finch family (Serinus Canarius), a native of the Canary Islands. It was brought to Europe in the 16th century, and made a household pet. It generally has a yellowish body with the wings and tail greenish, but in its wild state it is more frequently of gray or brown color. It is sometimes called canary finch..
Incomer :: Incomer (n.) One who succeeds another, as a tenant of land, houses, etc..
Sempervivum :: Sempervivum (n.) A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species..
Bedlam :: Bedlam (a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse..
Mother :: Mother (n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc..
Nestle :: Nestle (v. t.) To house, as in a nest..
Contractor :: Contractor (n.) One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad..
Summerhouse :: Summerhouses (pl. ) of Summerhous.
Lean-to :: Lean-to (n.) A shed or slight building placed against the wall of a larger structure and having a single-pitched roof; -- called also penthouse, and to-fall..
Pesthouse :: Pesthouse (n.) A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.
Hypocaust :: Hypocaust (n.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses..
Dome :: Dome (n.) A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..
Guardhouse :: Guardhouse (n.) A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up..
Ruiniform :: Ruiniform (a.) Having the appearance of ruins, or of the ruins of houses; -- said of certain minerals..
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