Country (adv.) A tract of land |
Country (adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. |
Country (adv.) The inhabitants or people of a state or a region |
Country (adv.) A jury, as representing the citizens of a country. |
Country (adv.) The inhabitants of the district from which a jury is drawn. |
Country (adv.) The rock through which a vein runs. |
Country (a.) Pertaining to the regions remote from a city |
Country (a.) Destitute of refinement |
Country (a.) Pertaining, or peculiar, to one's own country. |
Country-base (n.) Same as Prison base. |
Country-dance (n.) See Contradance. |
Country seat () A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city. |
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 |
Moot-house (n.) A hall for public meetings |
Style (v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax. |
Style (v. t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use. |
Style (v. t.) A pen |
Style (v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving |
Style (v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument. |
Style (v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects. |
Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon. |
Style (v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil. |
Style (v. t.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written |
Style (v. t.) Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts |
Style (v. t.) Conformity to a recognized standard |
Style (v. t.) Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated |
Style (v. t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars. |
Style (v. t.) To entitle |
Sugar-house (n.) A building in which sugar is made or refined |
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 |
country-dance country dancing contredanse contra danse contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
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 |
style | a slender bristlelike or tubular process, a cartilaginous style |
domestic cat house cat Felis domesticus Felis catus | any domesticated member of the genus Felis |
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 |
house mouse Mus musculus | brownish-grey Old World mouse now a common household pest worldwide |
apartment building apartment house | a building that is divided into apartments |
apiary bee house | a shed containing a number of beehives |
beach house | a house built on or near a beach |
c Bedlam booby hatch crazy house cuckoo's nest funny farm funny house loony bin madhouse nut house nuthouse sanatorium snake pit | pejorative terms for an insane asylum |
boarding house boardinghouse | a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests |
brokerage house brokerage | place where a broker conducts his business |
building supply store building supply house | a store where builders can purchase materials for building houses and related structures |
chapterhouse fraternity house frat house | a house used as a residence by a chapter of a fraternity |
charnel house charnel | a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited |
cinema movie theater movie theatre movie house picture palace | a theater where films are shown |
coach house carriage house remise | a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles |
coal house | a shed for storing coal |
conference center conference house | a center where conferences can be conducted |
country house | a house (usually large and impressive) on an estate in the country |
country store general store trading post | a retail store serving a sparsely populated region, usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise |
death house death row | the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution |
deck-house | a superstructure on the upper deck of a ship |
detached house single dwelling | a house that stands alone |
detention home detention house house of detention detention camp | an institution where juvenile offenders can be held temporarily (usually under the supervision of a juvenile court) |
discount house discount store discounter wholesale house | a sales outlet offering goods at a discounted price |
dollhouse doll's house | a small model of a house used as a toy by children |
dollhouse doll's house | a house so small that it is likened to a child's plaything |
duplex house duplex semidetached house | a house with two units sharing a common wall |
dwelling home domicile abode habitation dwelling house | housing that someone is living in, he built a modest dwelling near the pond, they raise money to provide homes for the homeless |
field house | an athletic facility where athletes prepare for sport |
field house sports arena | a building for indoor sports |
free house | a public house that is not controlled by a brewery and so is free to sell different brands of beer and ale |
gambling house gambling den gambling hell gaming house | a public building in which a variety of games of chance can be played (operated as a business) |
glebe house | a parsonage (especially one provided for the holder of a benefice) |
hash house | an inexpensive restaurant |
house | a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families, he has a house on Cape Cod, she felt she had to get out of the house |
house | a building in which something is sheltered or located, they had a large carriage house |
house of cards cardhouse card-house cardcastle | an unstable construction with playing cards, he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed |
house of correction | (formerly) a jail or other place of detention for persons convicted of minor offences |