Word Meanings - OUTHOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.

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• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• 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.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• HOUSEBOTE
  Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
• OUTBUILD
  To exceed in building, or in durability of building.
• 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.
• DISTANCE
  A space marked out in the last part of a race course. The horse that ran the whole field out of distance. L'Estrange. Note: In trotting matches under the rules of the American Association, the distance varies with the conditions of the race, being
• 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
• HOUSEMATE
  One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• 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
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• 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.
• 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.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• 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.
• CLUBHOUSE
  A house occupied by a club.
• STOVEHOUSE
  A hothouse.