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Trousers. [Obs.] Spenser.

Cloth or material for making trousers.

ding from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately. pants; used attrib. in the singular, as a trouser leg; see pant

A brothel. [Obs.] Robert Greene.

A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols. [Written also Tungooses.]

Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.

To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.

Driven from a house; deprived of shelter.

Not having received the sacrament. [Obs.] [Written also unhouselled.] To die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled. Sir W. Scott.

Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment.

To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse. Shak.

To cup; to use a cupping glass. [Obs.] [Written also ventuse.] Chaucer.

See Ventouse. [Obs.]

An old French variety of pear, of little value.

A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.

One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

A house in which a watch or guard is placed.

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.

ll insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (C. aquaticus), and the American water ousel (C. Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.