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Word Meanings - BAGNIO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. 2. A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.

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  • SWEATY
    1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. 2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift. 3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge." Prior.
  • BATHE
    1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South. 2. To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold. 3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And
  • HOUSEWIFE
    A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
  • TURKEY
    An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia. Turkey carpet, a superior kind of carpet made in Asia Minor and adjoining countries, having a deep pile and composed of pure wool with a weft of different material. It is distinguishable
  • SWEATILY
    In a sweaty manner.
  • HOUSEWARMING
    A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.
  • PRISONMENT
    Imprisonment. Shak.
  • HOUSEBOTE
    Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
  • HOUSEROOM
    Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
  • HOUSEWIFELY
    Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.
  • TURKEYS
    Turkish. Chaucer.
  • HOUSEMAID
    A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee , a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who
  • HOUSEMATE
    One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning.
  • SWEATER
    1. One who sweats. 2. One who, or that which, causes to sweat; as: A sudorific. A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes. An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages.
  • HOUSEWRIGHT
    A builder of houses.
  • BATHOMETER
    An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.
  • HOUSEKEEPER
    1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants
  • TURKEY-TROT
    An eccentric ragtime dance, danced with the feet well apart and with a characteristic rise on the ball of the foot, followed by a drop upon the heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive.
  • HOUSELING
    See HOUSLING
  • HOUSEWIFE; HOUSEWIVE
    To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.
  • PACKHOUSE
    Warehouse for storing goods.
  • WAREHOUSE
    A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
  • POSTHOUSE
    1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
  • HENHOUSE
    A house or shelter for fowls.
  • SLAUGHTERHOUSE
    A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
  • TRUGGING-HOUSE
    A brothel. Robert Greene.
  • FULL HOUSE
    A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.
  • WATCHHOUSE
    1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
  • TIRING-HOUSE
    A tiring-room. Shak.
  • GREENHOUSE
    A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
  • HOTHOUSE
    A heated room for drying green ware. (more info) 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. Shak.
  • ISOTHERMOBATHIC
    Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
  • BEADHOUSE; BEDEHOUSE
    An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors.
  • WASHHOUSE
    An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
  • UNHOUSED
    Driven from a house; deprived of shelter. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
  • NEATHOUSE
    A building for the shelter of neat cattle. Massinger.
  • MUGHOUSE
    An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel.
  • REIMPRISON
    To imprison again.

 

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