Definition of house

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House (v. i.) To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.

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Alehouse :: Alehouse (n.) A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house..
General :: General (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule..
Indoors :: Indoors (adv.) Within the house; -- usually separated, in doors..
Washhouse :: Washhouse (n.) An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry..
Thorpe :: Thorpe (n.) A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe..
Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable..
Better :: Better (a.) Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air..
Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door..
Bedehouse :: Bedehouse (n.) Same as Beadhouse.
Hothouse :: Hothouse (n.) A brothel; a bagnio.
Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A chapter house.
House :: House (v. t.) To admit to residence; to harbor.
Agreeable :: Agreeable (a.) In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report..
Workhouse :: Workhouse (n.) A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
Pentice :: Pentice (n.) A penthouse.
Inn :: Inn (v. t.) To house; to lodge.
Mansion :: Mansion (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8..
Trugging-house :: Trugging-house (n.) A brothel.
Bungalow :: Bungalow (n.) A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story, usually surrounded by a veranda..
Sempervive :: Sempervive (n.) The houseleek.
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