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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 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…

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.]

A dovecote.

ilding 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.

To deprive of house or home. "Dishoused villagers." James White.

A cheap lodging house.

A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [Obs.] 2 Kings x. 27.

A building in which dyeing is carried on.

A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.

A house connected or associated with a gate.

A shop where gill is sold. Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn. Pope.