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▪ I. houser1 rare.|ˈhaʊzə(r)| [f. house v.1+ -er1.] †1. One who erects a house; a builder. Obs.
a1400Prymer (1891) 32 [Ps. cxviii. 22] The stoon þt the houseres reproueden her hit is maad in to the heued of the corner. 2. One who ‘houses’ or makes his habitation somewhere; a dweller, an inhabitant.
1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiii. 54 To be with the snows, the wild beasts, in a wintery domicile, To be near each savage houser that a surly fury provokes. ▪ II. † houser2 Obs.|ˈhaʊzə(r)| Also 6 howsour, houssour. [a. OF. houssure, -eure, f. housser to cover, house v.2] A covering, housing.
1513Douglas æneis vii. v. 192 The king With purpoure howsouris bad ane coursour bring. 1785R. Cumberland Observer No. 89 ⁋2 He loaded and primed his pistols, and carefully lodged them in the housers of his saddle. |