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  • English Word Hounded Definition of Hound
  • English Word Houndfish Definition Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (G. canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish.
  • English Word Hounding Definition of Hound
  • English Word Hounding Definition The act of one who hounds.
  • English Word Hounding Definition The part of a mast below the hounds and above the deck.
  • English Word Houp Definition See Hoopoe.
  • English Word Hour Definition The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
  • English Word Hour Definition The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?
  • English Word Hour Definition Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.
  • English Word Hour Definition Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
  • English Word Hour Definition A measure of distance traveled.
  • English Word Hourglass Definition An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.
  • English Word Houri Definition A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Mohammedans.
  • English Word Houris Definition of Houri
  • English Word Hourly Definition Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.
  • English Word Hourly Definition Every hour; frequently; continually.
  • English Word Hours Definition Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day.
  • English Word Housage Definition A fee for keeping goods in a house.
  • English Word House Definition A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.
  • English Word House Definition Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below.
  • English Word House Definition Those who dwell in the same house; a household.
  • English Word House Definition A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel.
  • English Word House Definition One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament.
  • English Word House Definition A firm, or commercial establishment.
  • English Word House Definition A public house; an inn; a hotel.
  • English Word House Definition 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 the reverse order every twenty-four hours.
  • English Word House Definition A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.
  • English Word House Definition An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.
  • English Word House Definition The body, as the habitation of the soul.
  • English Word House Definition The grave.