Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany..

Blockhouse :: Blockhouse (n.) A house of squared logs.

Bloodhound :: Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff..

Boathouse :: Boathouse (n.) A house for sheltering boats.

Brewhouse :: Brewhouse (n.) A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

Buckhound :: Buckhound (n.) A hound for hunting deer.

Cachou :: Cachou (n.) A silvered aromatic pill, used to correct the odor of the breath..

Caoutchouc :: Caoutchouc (n.) A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous tree Siphonia elastica or Hevea caoutchouc), Asia, and Africa. Being impermeable to liquids and gases, and not readly affected by exposure to air, acids, and alkalies, it is used, especially when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used c

Caoutchoucin :: Caoutchoucin (n.) See Caoutchin.

Catarrhous :: Catarrhous (a.) Catarrhal.

Chargehouse :: Chargehouse (n.) A schoolhouse.

Charterhouse :: Charterhouse (n.) A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

Chophouse :: Chophouse (n.) A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house..

Chophouse :: Chophouse (n.) A customhouse where transit duties are levied.

Chouan :: Chouan (n.) One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution..

Chough :: Chough (n.) A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough..

Chouicha :: Chouicha (n.) The salmon of the Columbia River or California. See Quinnat.

Chouka :: Chouka (n.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.

Choule :: Choule (n.) See Jowl.

Choultry :: Choultry (n.) See Choltry.

Chouse :: Chouse (v. t.) To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money..

Chouse :: Chouse (n.) One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.

Chouse :: Chouse (n.) A trick; sham; imposition.

Chouse :: Chouse (n.) A swindler.

Choused :: Choused (imp. & p. p.) of Chous.

Chousing :: Chousing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chous.

Chout :: Chout (n.) An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.

Cirrhous :: Cirrhous (a.) See Cirrose.

Clubhouse :: Clubhouse (n.) A house occupied by a club.

Coffeehouse :: Coffeehouse (n.) A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation..

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