Definition of house

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House (n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion..

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Alestake :: Alestake (n.) A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a bush..
Domal :: Domal (a.) Pertaining to a house.
Housemate :: Housemate (n.) One who dwells in the same house with another.
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..
Dugout :: Dugout (n.) A house made partly in a hillside or slighter elevation.
Boathouse :: Boathouse (n.) A house for sheltering boats.
Roundhouse :: Roundhouse (n.) A privy near the bow of the vessel.
Saur :: Saur (n.) Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse.
Watchhouse :: Watchhouse (n.) A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
Sill :: Sill (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like..
Peelhouse :: Peelhouse (n.) See 1st Peel.
Storeship :: Storeroom (n.) Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.
Side :: Side (v. t.) To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house..
Drawlatch :: Drawlatch (n.) A housebreaker or thief.
Workhouse :: Workhouse (n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
Division :: Division (n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote..
Flat :: Flat (n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself..
Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop..
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor..
Terrace :: Terrace (v.) A flat roof to a house; as, the buildings of the Oriental nations are covered with terraces..
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