Word Meanings - HOUSEWARMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• MERRY-ANDREW
  One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who
• 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
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• 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.
• POSSESSIONER
  1. A possessor; a property holder. "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney. 2. An invidious name for a member of any religious community endowed with property in lands, buildings, etc.,
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• HOUSEBOTE
  Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• HOUSEROOM
  Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• JOHNSONIANISM
  A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
• JOHNSONESE
  The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
• 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
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• 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.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• 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.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• 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.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.