Definition of house

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House (n.) 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

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Baron :: Baron (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount..
Martlet :: Martlet (n.) The European house martin.
House :: House (v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave..
General :: General (a.) The chief of an order of monks, or of all the houses or congregations under the same rule..
Belonging :: Belonging (n.) Family; relations; household.
Brewery :: Brewery (n.) A brewhouse; the building and apparatus where brewing is carried on.
Sombre :: Sombre (a.) Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house..
Tatta :: Tatta (n.) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is suffered to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters..
Ransack :: Ransack (v. t.) To search thoroughly; to search every place or part of; as, to ransack a house..
Houses :: Houses (pl. ) of Hous.
Garret :: Garret (n.) That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic..
Pharos :: Pharos (n.) A lighthouse or beacon for the guidance of seamen.
Huswife :: Huswife (n.) A case for sewing materials. See Housewife.
Chouse :: Chouse (v. t.) To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money..
Houseless :: Houseless (a.) Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer..
Draughthouse :: Draughthouse (n.) A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy.
Lodge :: Lodge (n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate..
Pesthouse :: Pesthouse (n.) A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.
Warehousemen :: Warehousemen (pl. ) of Warehousema.
Thorpe :: Thorpe (n.) A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe..
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