Word Meanings - BROTHEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse. (more info) worthless fellow, fr. AS. beró to ruin, destroy; cf. AS. breótan to break, and E. brittle. The term brothel house was confused with

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• BRITTLELY
  In a brittle manner. Sherwood.
• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• CONFUSIVE
  Confusing; having a tendency to confusion. Bp. Hall.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• CONFUS
  Confused, disturbed. 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.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. 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.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• FELLOWLIKE
  Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
• FREQUENTNESS
  The quality of being frequent.
• 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
• BRITTLE STAR
  Any species of ophiuran starfishes. See Ophiuroidea.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• 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.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.