House (n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind |
House (n.) Household affairs |
House (n.) Those who dwell in the same house |
House (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred |
House (n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature |
House (n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. |
House (n.) A public house |
House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
House (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
House (n.) An audience |
House (n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul. |
House (n.) The grave. |
House (v. t.) To take or put into a house |
House (v. t.) To drive to a shelter. |
House (v. t.) To admit to residence |
House (v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave. |
House (v. t.) To stow in a safe place |
House (v. i.) To take shelter or lodging |
House (v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. |
Lombard-house (n.) Alt. of Lombar-house |
Lombar-house (n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop. |
Lombar-house (n.) A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged |
Mice (n.) pl of Mouse. |
Moot-house (n.) A hall for public meetings |
Mice (pl. ) of Mouse |
Mouse (n.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridae. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest. |
Mouse (n.) A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping. |
Mouse (n.) Same as 2d Mousing, 2. |
Mouse (n.) A familiar term of endearment. |
Mouse (n.) A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow. |
Mouse (n.) A match used in firing guns or blasting. |
Mouse (v. i.) To watch for and catch mice. |
Mouse (v. i.) To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner |
Mouse (v. t.) To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. |
Mouse (v. t.) To furnish with a mouse |
Mouse-ear (n.) The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus. |
Mouse-ear (n.) A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella). |
Sea mouse () A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setae on the sides. |
Sea mouse () The dunlin. |
Sugar-house (n.) A building in which sugar is made or refined |
Tippling-house (n.) A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises. |
Tiring-house (n.) A tiring-room. |
Treasure-house (n.) A house or building where treasures and stores are kept. |
Trugging-house (n.) A brothel. |
Water mouse () Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genus Hydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs are strong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders of streams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the only rodents found in Australia. |
Weigh-house (n.) A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed. |
click mouse click | depression of a button on a computer mouse, a click on the right button for example |
house | play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults, the children were playing house |
cat and mouse cat and rat | a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands, they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first |
painting house painting | the occupation of a house painter, house painting was the only craft he knew |
house arrest | confinement to your own home |
Monmouth Court House Battle of Monmouth Court House Battle of Monmouth | a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution () that ended with the withdrawal of British forces |
house finch linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
English sparrow house sparrow Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
house wren Troglodytes aedon | common American wren that nests around houses |
house martin Delichon urbica | common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses |
milk snake house snake milk adder checkered adder Lampropeltis triangulum | nonvenomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped occipital spot, southeastern ones have red stripes like coral snakes |
house centipede Scutigera coleoptrata | long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars |
flying mouse | tiny flying phalanger |
pouched mouse marsupial mouse marsupial rat | any of numerous small sharp-nosed insectivorous marsupials superficially resembling mice or rats |
sea mouse | any of several large worms having a broad flattened body with a mat of coarse hairs covering the back |
domestic cat house cat Felis domesticus Felis catus | any domesticated member of the genus Felis |
mouse-eared bat | a carnivorous bat with ears like a mouse |
housefly house fly Musca domestica | common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases |
European house cricket Acheta domestica | lives in human dwellings, naturalized in parts of America |
pika mouse hare rock rabbit coney cony | small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America |
mouse | any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails |
house mouse Mus musculus | brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide |
harvest mouse Micromyx minutus | small reddish-brown Eurasian mouse inhabiting e.g. cornfields |
field mouse fieldmouse | any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
nude mouse | a mouse with a genetic defect that prevents them from growing hair and also prevents them from immunologically rejecting human cells and tissues, widely used in preclinical trials |
European wood mouse Apodemus sylvaticus | nocturnal yellowish-brown mouse inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
kangaroo mouse | leaping rodent of Australian desert areas |
New World mouse | a variety of rodent |
American harvest mouse harvest mouse | any of several small greyish New World mice inhabiting e.g. grain fields |
wood mouse | any of various New World woodland mice |
white-footed mouse vesper mouse Peromyscus leucopus | American woodland mouse with white feet and underparts |
deer mouse Peromyscus maniculatus | brownish New World mouse, most widely distributed member of the genus |
cactus mouse Peromyscus eremicus | burrowing mouse of desert areas of southwestern United States |
cotton mouse Peromyscus gossypinus | large dark mouse of southeastern United States |
pygmy mouse Baiomys taylori | very small dark greyish brown mouse resembling a house mouse, of Texas and Mexico |
grasshopper mouse | insectivorous mouse of western North America |
vole field mouse | any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows |
pine vole pine mouse Pitymys pinetorum | short-tailed glossy-furred burrowing vole of the eastern United States |
meadow vole meadow mouse Microtus pennsylvaticus | widely distributed in grasslands of northern United States and Canada |
red-backed mouse redback vole | any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America |
pocket mouse | any of various small nocturnal burrowing desert rodents with cheek pouches and long hind legs and tail |
silky pocket mouse Perognathus flavus | small pale yellowish soft-furred rodent of southwestern United States and Mexico |
plains pocket mouse Perognathus flavescens | small rodent of open areas of United States plains states |
hispid pocket mouse Perognathus hispidus | large stiff-haired rodent of shortgrass prairies of United States |
Mexican pocket mouse Liomys irroratus | large pocket mouse of Mexico |
kangaroo mouse dwarf pocket rat | small silky-haired pouched rodent, similar to but smaller than kangaroo rats |
jumping mouse | any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches, of woodlands of Eurasia and North America |
meadow jumping mouse Zapus hudsonius | widely distributed in northeastern and central United States and Canada |
hazel mouse Muscardinus avellanarius | a variety of dormouse |
chevrotain mouse deer | very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa |