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A toper; a boozer.

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

Depressed; flattened. [Obs.] Though my nose be cammoused. B. Jonson

A large draught of liguor. [Obs.] "A full carouse of sack." Sir J. Davies. Drink carouses to the next day's fate. Shak.

One who carouses; a reveler.

A schoolhouse. [Obs.]

A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house. The freedom of a chophouse. W. Irving.

To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.

A house occupied by a club.

A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit.

A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution . . . The coffeehouses were the…

See Coletit.

The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

A merchant's office; a countinghouse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [U.S.]

Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. [Scot.] Burns.

A dovecote.

lding where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.

A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies.