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To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.

derate Calvinist. A number of moderate members managed ... to obtain a majority in a thin house. Swift.

A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.

The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.

dren aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the "Houses of Childhood" (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individua…

s found dead are exposed, that they may be identified, or claimed by their friends; a deadhouse.

A place for the reception of the dead before burial; a deadhouse; a morgue.

The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.

ten with up. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jer. li. 53. The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. Cowley.

b, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black. The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid. Dryden. Deep mourning. See under Deep.

ts belonging to the genus Mus and various related genera of the family Muridæ. The common house mouse (Mus musculus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.…

A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece. Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives. Addison.

To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.

To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.

The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill.

Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

an is enabled to defend the title to his estate; title deeds and papers. Blount. Muniment house or room, that room in a cathedral, castle, or other public building, which is used for keeping the records, charters, seals, deeds, and the like. Gwilt.

A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species.

Of or pertaining to Myrmica, a genus of ants including the small house ant (M. molesta), and many others.