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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.

To seek or shoot grouse.

(Dredging, Pile Driving, etc.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage.

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.

specially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion. Houses are built to live in; not to look on. Bacon. Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away. Shak.

Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.

One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.

The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.

One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.

A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.

o dwell under the same roof and compose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift.

The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke.

The state of being occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

The eucharist. [Archaic] Rom. of R. Tennyson.

A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.

Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.