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n. A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A building comprising a number of lving units (apartments{ 4 }) designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; contrasted to a detached dwelling. Sometimes distinguished in the United States from a flat house, in which each living unit comprises one entire floor, whereas in an apartment house a floor may be partitioned into any number of apartments{ 4 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Back, a. + house. ] A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; an outhouse; a necessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bæchūs. See Bake, v. t., and House. ] A house for baking; a bakery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cheap drinking and dancing establishment.
Syn. -- honky-tonk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a building containing dressing rooms for bathers.
Syn. -- bathing machine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a building containing public baths.
Syn. -- bagnio. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. bede prayer + E. house. See Bead, n. ] An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Beadhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house for bees; an apiary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Block + house: cf. G. blockhaus. ] 1. (Mil.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A house of squared logs. [ West. & South. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.
Syn. -- boarding house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A house for sheltering boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small building usually near a large residence or part of an estate, used for keeping coaches, carriages, or other vehicles; -- also called coach house. It is now (1998) obsolescent and its function has been taken over by the garage, which is usually attached to a residence or main building. Carriage houses are still found on older estates, though not usually used for their original purpose. [ PJC ]

n. A schoolhouse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chop quality. ] A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [ China ] S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house. [ 1913 Webster ]

The freedom of a chophouse. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Choused p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing. ] [ From Turk. chāūsh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of £4, 000. ] To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A swindler. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house occupied by a club. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution. . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself. . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Count, v. ] The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business; the offices used by the accountants of a business. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ See 2d Counter. ] A merchant's office; a countinghouse. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States. [ 1913 Webster ]

Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House. Barlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dovecote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. [ 1913 Webster ]

Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of house or home. “Dishoused villagers.” James White. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a house so small that it is likened to a child's dollhouse. Sometimes used in reference to a small house with especially elaborate exterior decoration. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. a small model of a house used as a toy by children, usually including miniature furniture and other objects that can be arranged inside it as the would be in a real house. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

. A cheap lodging house.

They [ street Arabs ] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy. W. Besant. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [ Obs. ] 2 Kings x. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building in which dyeing is carried on. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a building housing firemen and the apparatus they use to extinguish fires.
Syn. -- fire station. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a cheap and usually seedy lodging house or hotel.
Syn. -- dosshouse. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a house used by a chapter of a fraternity at a college.
Syn. -- fraternity house; chapter house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Poker) 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A house connected or associated with a gate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shop where gill is sold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A building where cotton is ginned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. an inn or place of call midway on a journey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A residence for former convicts, persons recovering from mental illness, or from drug or alcohol addiction, serving as an intermediate environment between total confinement and complete freedom, and having structured programs designed to ease successful reintegration into society. [ PJC ]