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The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.

A lighthouse, or the apparatus placed in it for giving light.

arance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc. ; workmanship; execution. The fashion of his countenance was altered. Luke ix. 29. I do not like the fashion of your garments. Shak.

Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.] That fatal screech owl to our house That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Shak.

ather to the poor. Job xxix. 16. He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. Gen. xiv. 8.

larly in large companies, and on public festivals. And his sons went and feasted in their houses. Job. i. 4.

to bribe. The patient . . . fees the doctor. Dryden. There's not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed. Shak.

Anything set up to protect an exposed angle, as of a house, from damage by carriage wheels.

, a kind of geomancy dealing with these influences, used in determining sites for graves, houses, etc.

The officer in a religious house who had the care of the infirmary. [Obs.]

A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. Johnson.

ng fills a throne; the president fills the office of chief magistrate; the speaker of the House fills the chair.

Completely; beyond recovery. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed or finally rooted out. Sir J. Davies.

The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.

er which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.

Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, th…

ctious strength to liquors. Flash light, or Flashing light, a kind of light shown by lighthouses, produced by the revolution of reflectors, so as to show a flash of light every few seconds, alternating with periods of dimness. Knight. -- Flash in the pan, the flashing of the priming in the pan of a flintlock musket wi…

roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.

A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.

A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.