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11,017 words match “USE”

SUFFUSE v.
ead, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. Pope.
SUGAR-HOUSE n.
A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
SUMMERHOUSE n.
A rustic house or apartment in a garden or park, to be used as a pleasure resort in summer. Shak.
SUPERFUSE a.
To pour (something) over or on something else. [Obs.] Evelyn.
SUPERINFUSE v.
To infuse over. [R.]
SYRACUSE n.
A red wine of Italy.
TAPHOUSE n.
A house where liquors are retailed.
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. [Obs.] Shak.
TITMOUSE n.
Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singing birds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, and tomtit.
TITTIMOUSE n.
Titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
TOLLHOUSE n.
A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.
TOUSE n.
A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
TOUSE; TOUZE v.
To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.
TOUSEL v.
Same as Tousle. [Colloq.]
TOUSER n.
One who touses. [Prov. Eng.]
TOWNHOUSE n.
A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
TOYHOUSE n.
A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.
TRANSFUSE v. 3 definitions
To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters. Into thee such virtue and grace Immense I have transfused. Milton.
TREASURE-HOUSE n.
A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.
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