Common
(v.) Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one |
Common
(v.) Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together |
Common
(v.) Often met with |
Common
(v.) Not distinguished or exceptional |
Common
(v.) Profane |
Common
(v.) Given to habits of lewdness |
Common
(n.) The people |
Common
(n.) An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public |
Common
(n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons |
Common
(v. i.) To converse together |
Common
(v. i.) To participate. |
Common
(v. i.) To have a joint right with others in common ground. |
Common
(v. i.) To board together |
Common sense
() See Common sense, under Sense. |
Free-martin
(n.) An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male. |
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 |
Martin
(n.) A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding. |
Martin
(n.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows. |
Moot-house
(n.) A hall for public meetings |
Siemens-Martin process
() See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open. |
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. |
Weigh-house
(n.) A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
common shiner
silversides Notropis cornutus | the common North American shiner |
house finch
linnet Carpodacus mexicanus | small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico |
common canary
Serinus canaria | native to the Canary Islands and Azores, popular usually yellow cage bird noted for its song |
English sparrow
house sparrow
Passer domesticus | small hardy brown-and-grey bird native to Europe |
common yellowthroat
Maryland yellowthroat
Geothlypis trichas | an American warbler |
common starling
Sturnus vulgaris | gregarious bird having plumage with dark metallic gloss, builds nests around dwellings and other structures, naturalized worldwide |
common European jay
Garullus garullus | fawnolored jay with black-and-white crest and blue-and-black wings |
common nutcracker
Nucifraga caryocatactes | Old World nutcracker |
house wren
Troglodytes aedon | common American wren that nests around houses |
tree swallow tree martin
Hirundo nigricans | of Australia and Polynesia, nests in tree cavities |
| martin | any of various swallows with squarish or slightly forked tail and long pointed wings, migrate around Martinmas |
Delichon
genus Delichon | a genus of Hirundinidae |
house martin
Delichon urbica | common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses |
bank martin
bank swallow
sand martin
Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
purple martin
Progne subis | large North American martin of which the male is blue-black |
common newt
Triturus vulgaris | small semiaquatic salamander |
common snapping turtle
snapper
Chelydra serpentina | large-headed turtle with powerful hooked jaws found in or near water, prone to bite |
common iguana
iguana
Iguana iguana | large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back, used as human food in Central America and South America |
common kingsnake
Lampropeltis getulus | widespread in United States except northern regions, black or brown with yellow bands |
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 |
common garter snake
Thamnophis sirtalis | a garter snake that is widespread in North America |
common water snake
banded water snake
Natrix sipedon
Nerodia sipedon | in some classifications placed in the genus Nerodia, western United States snake that seldom ventures far from water |
adder
common viper
Vipera berus | small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia |
house centipede
Scutigera coleoptrata | long-legged centipede common in damp places as e.g. cellars |
common scoter
Melanitta nigra | a variety of scoter |
common brant goose
Branta bernicla | the best known variety of brant goose |
common opossum
Didelphis virginiana
Didelphis marsupialis | omnivorous opossum of the eastern United States, noted for feigning death when in danger, esteemed as food in some areas, considered same species as the crab-eating opossum of South America |
common wallaby
Macropus agiles | a small wallaby having a height ofinches |
common shrew
Sorex araneus | common American shrew |
common roundworm
Ascaris lumbricoides | intestinal parasite of humans and pigs |
common limpet
Patella vulgata | marine limpet |
common spoonbill
Platalea leucorodia | pure white crested spoonbill of southern Eurasia and northeastern Africa |
common murre
Uria aalge | the most frequent variety of murre |
finback
finback whale
fin whale
common rorqual
Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
common dolphin
Delphinus delphis | black-and-white dolphin that leaps high out of the water, |
pilot whale
black whale common blackfish
blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |
harbor seal
common seal
Phoca vitulina | small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere |
domestic cat
house cat
Felis domesticus
Felis catus | any domesticated member of the genus Felis |
common lynx
Lynx lynx | of northern Eurasia |
common louse
Pediculus humanus | head or body louse |
housefly
house fly
Musca domestica | common fly that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases |
common mosquito
Culex pipiens | common house mosquito |
common wasp
Vespula vulgaris | a variety of vespid wasp |
European house cricket
Acheta domestica | lives in human dwellings, naturalized in parts of America |
common pond-skater
Gerris lacustris | a variety of water strider |
common booklouse
Trogium pulsatorium | a variety of booklouse |