Word Meanings - UNHOUSED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Driven from a house; deprived of shelter. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:

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• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• 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.
• 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
• SHELTERY
  Affording shelter.
• SHELTER
  scheldtrome, a guard, squadron, AS. scildtruma a troop of men with 1. That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen. The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.
• HOUSEMATE
  One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning.
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• 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
• 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.
• HOUSEBREAKING
  The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.
• DRIVEN
  of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.
• HOUSEWORK
  The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• DEPRIVATION
  the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
• 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.
• CLUBHOUSE
  A house occupied by a club.