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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Guest :: Guest (n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. t.) To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house..
House :: House (n.) A firm, or commercial establishment..
Potman :: Potman (n.) A servant in a public house; a potboy.
Housewright :: Housewright (n.) A builder of houses.
Housebreaking :: Housebreaking (n.) The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break..
Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To separate into two parts, in order to ascertain the votes for and against a measure; as, to divide a legislative house upon a question..
Eavesdropper :: Eavesdropper (n.) One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener..
Lock :: Lock (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast..
Lodge :: Lodge (v. i.) To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street..
Terminus :: Terminus (n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place..
Hamesucken :: Hamesucken (n.) The felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house.
Public :: Public (a.) Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house..
Hoarding :: Hoarding (n.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
Range :: Range (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast..
Front :: Front (v. t.) To stand opposed or opposite to, or over against as, his house fronts the church..
Chouse :: Chouse (n.) A trick; sham; imposition.
Piping :: Piping (n.) Pipes, collectively; as, the piping of a house..
Open :: Open (a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead..
Bedlam :: Bedlam (a.) Belonging to, or fit for, a madhouse..
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