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A building where cotton is ginned.

A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.

A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.

A house or shelter for fowls.

A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to serve as a guide to mariners at night; a pharos.

A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.

A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc.

A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.

A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. [Obs.] "The moot-hall of Herod." Wyclif.

An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel.

A building for the shelter of neat cattle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.

A small house or building at a little distance from the main house; an outbuilding.

Warehouse for storing goods.

See 1st Peel. Sir W. Scott.

A penthouse. [Obs.]

e main wall or building, as over a door or window; a lean-to. Also figuratively. "The penthouse of his eyes." Sir W. Scott.

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.