house /hows/

1. A building for living in
2. A building in general
3. A dwelling-place
4. An inn
5. A public house
6. A household
7. A family in line of descent
8. Kindred
9. A trading establishment
10. One of the twelve divisions of the heavens in astrology
11. A legislative or deliberative body or its meeting-place
12. A convent
13. A school boarding house
14. The pupils belonging to it (collectively)
15. A section of a school
16. An audience, auditorium or performance
17. The workhouse (old informal)
18. The circle around the tee within which stones must lie to count (curling)
19. (the House) at Oxford, Christ Church (Aedes Christi), in London, the Stock Exchange or the Houses of Parliament
20. Bingo, esp when played for money (esp army sl)
21. (usu with cap) house music (qv below)

1. Domestic
2. Of a restaurant, hotel, etc or its management, as in house rules
3. (of wine) unnamed and cheaper than those listed on a menu, etc by name or region

1. To protect by covering
2. To shelter
3. To store
4. To provide houses for

1. To take shelter
2. To reside

An exclamation made by the first player to finish a game of bingo

houseˈful noun (pl houseˈfuls)

houseˈless adjective

1. Without a house or home
2. Having no shelter

housˈey adjective

Typical of house music (qv below)

housing /howˈzing/ noun

1. Houses, accommodation or shelter, or the provision of any of these (also adjective)
2. A cavity into which a timber fits
3. Anything designed to cover, protect or contain machinery, etc
4. A housing joint (see below)

house agent noun

A person who arranges the buying, selling and letting of houses

house arrest noun

Confinement, under guard, to one's house, or to a hospital, etc instead of imprisonment

houseˈboat noun

A barge with a deck-cabin that may serve as a dwelling-place

houseˈ-bote noun (law)

A tenant's right to wood to repair his or her house

houseˈbound adjective

Confined to one's house, eg because of illness, responsibilities towards young children, etc

houseˈboy noun

A male domestic servant, esp in Africa or India

houseˈbreaker noun

1. A person who breaks into and enters a house for the purpose of stealing
2. Someone whose work is demolishing old houses

houseˈbreaking noun

houseˈ-broken adjective

House-trained

house call noun

A visit made by a professional person, esp a doctor, to a client or patient at home

houseˈ-carl noun (historical)

A member of a king's or noble's bodyguard

house church or house group noun

A group of Christians meeting, usu in a house, for worship, prayer, Bible study, etc, usu in addition to Sunday church worship

houseˈcoat noun

A woman's usu long coatlike dressing-gown, worn at home

houseˈcraft noun

Skill in domestic activities

houseˈ-dog noun

1. A dog kept in a house
2. A watchdog

houseˈ-dūty or houseˈ-tax noun

A tax laid on inhabited houses

houseˈ-factor noun (Scot)

A house agent

houseˈ-father noun

1. The male head of a household or community
2. A man in charge of children in an institution

house flag noun

The distinguishing flag of a shipowner or shipping company

houseˈfly noun

The common fly

house group see house church above.

house guest noun

A guest in a private house

houseˈhold noun

1. Those who are held together in the same house, and compose a family
2. A single person living alone or a group of people living together (economics)

adjective

1. Relating to the house and family
2. Well-known to the general public, as in household name, household word

Household Cavalry noun

The two cavalry regiments, the Life Guards and the Royal Horse Guards, responsible for guarding the British sovereign

houseˈholder noun

The holder or tenant of a house

household gods see under god, lar, penates

household suffrage or household franchise noun

The right of householders to vote for members of parliament

household troops plural noun

Guards regiments whose particular duty is to attend the sovereign and defend the metropolis

household word noun

A familiar saying or name

houseˈ-hunt intransitive verb

To look for a house to live in

houseˈ-hunter noun

houseˈ-hunting noun

houseˈ-husband noun

A married man or live-in male partner who looks after the house and family and does not have a paid job

houseˈkeeper noun

1. A person employed to run a household
2. A person who has the chief care of a house
3. Someone who stays much at home (archaic)
4. A dispenser of hospitality (obsolete)
5. A watchdog (obsolete)

houseˈkeeping noun

1. The keeping or management of a house or of domestic affairs
2. The money used for this
3. Hospitality (obsolete)
4. Operations carried out on or within a computer program to ensure the efficient functioning of the program

adjective

Domestic

house leek noun

A plant (Sempervivum tectorum) of the stonecrop family with succulent leaves, often growing on roofs

house lights plural noun (theatre)

The lights illuminating the auditorium

houseˈ-line noun (nautical)

A small line of three strands, for seizings, etc

house longhorn beetle see longhorn under long¹

houseˈmaid noun

A maid employed to keep a house clean, etc

housemaid's knee noun

An inflammation of the sac between the kneecap and the skin, to which those whose work involves frequent kneeling are especially liable

houseˈman noun

A house officer (qv below)

house martin noun

A kind of black-and-white swallow (Delichon urbica) with a slightly forked tail, often building its nest on a house wall

houseˈmaster or houseˈmistress noun

(in schools) the male or female head of a (boarding-)house, esp in connection with a public school

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• tariffication
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• tariff reformer
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• tariff wall
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• tarlatan
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• tarmac
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• tarmacked
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• tarmacs
• tarn
• tarnal
• tarnally
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