Word Meanings - HOUSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up. A houseline.

Additional info about word: HOUSING

A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc. That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel. A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up. A houseline. See Houseline. (more info) 1. The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation. 2. That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively. Fabyan. 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. A niche for a statue.

Related words: (words related to HOUSING)

• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• HOLD
  The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• AWNINGED
  Furnished with an awning.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• AWNING
  awan, awang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. 2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond
• HOLDBACK
  1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• HOLDER-FORTH
  One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• HOLDER
  One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• INHOLD
  To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• BRAWNER
  A boor killed for the table.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• COPYHOLDER
  One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• HIGH-HOLDER
  The flicker; -- called also high-hole.
• BLANCH HOLDING
  A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.