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Domestic :: Domestic (n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant..

Foregoer :: Foregoer (n.) A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household..

Housekeeper :: Housekeeper (n.) One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household..

Domestical :: Domestical (n.) A family; a household.

Household :: Household (a.) Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs..

Ironware :: Ironware (n.) Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder..

Voider :: Voider (n.) A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc..

Housekeeping :: Housekeeping (n.) The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

Verge :: Verge (n.) The compass of the court of Marshalsea and the Palace court, within which the lord steward and the marshal of the king's household had special jurisdiction; -- so called from the verge, or staff, which the marshal bore..

Guards :: Guards (n. pl.) A body of picked troops; as, The Household Guards..

Domesticity :: Domesticity (n.) The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

Housecarl :: Housecarl (n.) A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute..

Tithing :: Tithing (n.) A number or company of ten householders who, dwelling near each other, were sureties or frankpledges to the king for the good behavior of each other; a decennary..

Lar :: Lar (n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house..

Palsgrave :: Palsgrave (n.) A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany..

Tag :: Tag (n.) A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment..

Knight Marshal :: Knight marshal () An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties..

Blackguard :: Blackguard (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the black guard; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army..

Many :: Many (n.) A retinue of servants; a household.

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