HPage 245
- English Word House Definition Those who dwell in the same house; a household.
- English Word House Definition 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.
- English Word House Definition One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.
- English Word House Definition A firm, or commercial establishment.
- English Word House Definition A public house; an inn; a hotel.
- English Word House Definition A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.
- English Word House Definition A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
- English Word House Definition An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.
- English Word House Definition The body, as the habitation of the soul.
- English Word House Definition The grave.
- English Word House Definition To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
- English Word House Definition To drive to a shelter.
- English Word House Definition To admit to residence; to harbor.
- English Word House Definition To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
- English Word House Definition To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.
- English Word House Definition To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.
- English Word House Definition To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8.
- English Word Housebote Definition Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
- English Word Housebreaker Definition One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.
- English Word Housebreaking Definition 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.