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Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.

The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

A builder of houses.

That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively. Fabyan.

Sacramental; as, housling fire. [R.] Spenser.

A saddlecloth; a housing. [Obs.] Dryden.

A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.

A beautiful South American motmot. Waterton.

A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.

of Heave. Hove short, Hove to. See To heave a cable short, To heave a ship to, etc., under Heave.

A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.

One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman. [Written also hoveller.] [Prov. Eng.] G. P. R. James.

A method of securing a good draught in chimneys by covering the top, leaving openings in the sides, or by carrying up two of the sides higher than the other two. [Written also hovelling.]

Affected with the disease called hoove; as, hoven cattle.

a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something. Great flights of birds are hovering about the bridge, and settling on it. Addison. A hovering mist came swimming o'er his sight. Dryden.

The kestrel.

A device in an incubator for protecting the young chickens and keeping them warm.

In a hovering manner.