Definition of house

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House (n.) Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.

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Timbered :: Timbered (a.) Furnished with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house..
Bagnio :: Bagnio (n.) A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.
Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To inscribe; to enroll; to record; as, to enter a name, or a date, in a book, or a book in a catalogue; to enter the particulars of a sale in an account, a manifest of a ship or of merchandise at the customhouse..
Bedlam :: Bedlam (n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.
Betty :: Betty (n.) A name of contempt given to a man who interferes with the duties of women in a household, or who occupies himself with womanish matters..
Reichsrath :: Reichsrath (n.) The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives..
Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (a.) Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities..
Cafeneh :: Cafeneh (n.) A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold..
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..
Huswifery :: Huswifery (n.) The business of a housewife; female domestic economy and skill.
Pharo :: Pharo (n.) A pharos; a lighthouse.
Pit :: Pit (n.) Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater..
Ruin :: Ruin (n.) That which is fallen down and become worthless from injury or decay; as, his mind is a ruin; especially, in the plural, the remains of a destroyed, dilapidated, or desolate house, fortress, city, or the like..
Scutum :: Scutum (n.) A penthouse or awning.
Tiring-house :: Tiring-house (n.) A tiring-room.
Andron :: Andron (n.) The apartment appropriated for the males. This was in the lower part of the house.
Parsonage :: Parsonage (n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor..
Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take or receive; esp. to take by sympathy, contagion, infection, or exposure; as, to catch the spirit of an occasion; to catch the measles or smallpox; to catch cold; the house caught fire..
Still-hunt :: Stillhouse (n.) A house in which distillation is carried on; a distillery.
Huswife :: Huswife (n.) A case for sewing materials. See Housewife.
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