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To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste.

A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses. Cowell.

A public storehouse.

ing rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. [U. S.]

Good or established order or arrangement. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

nner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly. Shak. It went evil with his house. 1 Chron. vii. 23. The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us. Deut. xxvi. 6.

To call out or forth; to summon; to evoke. [R.] Stackhouse.

An office or place of household service where the ewers were formerly kept. [Enq.] Parker.

of the same kind; to barter; to swap; as, to exchange horses with a neighbor; to exchange houses or hats. Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet. Shak.

to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. And none but such, from mercy I exclude. Milton.

A license for absence from a college or a religious house. [Eng.] Shipley.

A disinheriting; disherison. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.

d; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows. Did not ye . . . expel me out of my father's house Judg. Xi. 7.

nse; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family. War is expensive, and peace desirable. Burke.

ous; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster. Shak.

A house or place where factors, or commercial agents, reside, to transact business for their employers. "The Company's factory at Madras." Burke.

A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

Public report or rumor. The fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house. Gen. xlv. 16.

Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. [Obs.] Milton.