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

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

o 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 reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.

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

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

Something serving to rouse or excite. I take a glass of grog for a filip. Dickens.

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.

r 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…

tious 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 wit…

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.

Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.

ssion of sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm. I, who love to have a fling, Both at senate house and king. Swift.