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Voider :: Voider (n.) A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc..

Housewife :: Housewife (n.) The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

Marshalsea :: Marshalsea (n.) The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household..

Curia :: Curia (n.) The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.

Cabinetmaker :: Cabinetmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc..

Cabinetmaking :: Cabinetmaking (n.) The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.

Domestic :: Domestic (a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants..

Camerlingo :: Camerlingo (n.) The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power.

Foregoer :: Foregoer (n.) A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder..

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

Page :: Page (n.) A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doing errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy employed to wait upon the members of a legislative body..

Greencloth :: Greencloth (n.) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates..

Ironware :: Ironware (n.) Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like..

Checkroll :: Checkroll (n.) A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.

Householder :: Householder (n.) The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.

Hobgoblin :: Hobgoblin (n.) A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit, Robin Goodfellow..

Horehound :: Horehound (n.) A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc..

Ewry :: Ewry (n.) An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept.

Household :: Household (n.) Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.

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