Word Meanings - SOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
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1. Pickle made with salt. 2. Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. Tusser. 3. The ear; especially, a hog's ear. 4. The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
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- BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - STEEP
Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer. - 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 - 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. - STEEPLE
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles - STEEPLY
In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity. - STEEP-DOWN
Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak. - SWINEBREAD
The truffle. - 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. - 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 - SWINEHERD
A keeper of swine. - SWINECOTE
A hogsty. - SWINECASE
A hogsty. - SWINESTONE
See STINKSTONE - HOUSEMATE
One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning. - SWINE-POX
A variety of the chicken pox, with acuminated vesicles containing a watery fluid; the water pox. Pepys. - HOUSEWRIGHT
A builder of houses. - 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. - 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. - STOVEHOUSE
A hothouse.