Word Meanings - APARTMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
appartare to separate, set apart; all fr. L. ad + pars, partis, part. 1. A room in a building; a division in a house, separated from others by partitions. Fielding. 2. A set or suite of rooms. De Quincey. 3. A compartment. Pope.
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- SEPARATISM
The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing. - FIELD
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity - FIELDING
The act of playing as a fielder. - DIVISIONARY
Divisional. - 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 - SEPARATIVE
Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle. - FIELDY
Open, like a field. Wyclif. - DIVISIONALLY
So as to be divisional. - 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. - COMPARTMENT
One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or - HOUSEBOTE
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. - ROOMSOME
Roomy. Evelyn. - HOUSEROOM
Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom. - SEPARATICAL
Of or pertaining to separatism in religion; schismatical. Dr. T. Dwight. - APARTMENT HOUSE
A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house. - APARTNESS
The quality of standing apart. - FIELDPIECE
A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun. - SEPARATORY
Separative. Cheyne. - 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 - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - HOMEFIELD
Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne. - 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. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - 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. - INFIELD
To inclose, as a field. - 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. - MISDIVISION
Wrong division. - 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.