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  • English Word Houselessness Definition The state of being houseless.
  • English Word Houseline Definition A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing.
  • English Word Houseling Definition Same as Housling.
  • English Word Housemaid Definition A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms.
  • English Word Housemate Definition One who dwells in the same house with another.
  • English Word Houseroom Definition Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
  • English Word Houses Definition of House
  • English Word Housewarming Definition A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.
  • English Word Housewife Definition The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
  • English Word Housewife Definition A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for other articles of female work; -- called also hussy.
  • English Word Housewife Definition A hussy.
  • English Word Housewife Definition Alt. of Housewive
  • English Word Housewifely Definition Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.
  • English Word Housewifery Definition The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.
  • English Word Housewive Definition To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
  • English Word Housework Definition The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
  • English Word Housewright Definition A builder of houses.
  • English Word Housing Definition of House
  • English Word Housing Definition The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.
  • English Word Housing Definition That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.
  • English Word Housing Definition The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.
  • English Word Housing Definition A niche for a statue.
  • English Word Housing Definition A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.
  • English Word Housing Definition That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
  • English Word Housing Definition A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.
  • English Word Housing Definition A houseline. See Houseline.
  • English Word Housing Definition A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
  • English Word Housing Definition An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
  • English Word Housling Definition Sacramental; as, housling fire.
  • English Word Houss Definition A saddlecloth; a housing.