HOTHOUSE

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

A bagnio, or bathing house. [Obs.] Shak.

3.
n.

A brothel; a bagnio. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

4.
n.

A heated room for drying green ware.


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