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A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.

A house where beasts are butchered for the market.

A narrow passage between two buildings, as between the transept and chapter house of a monastery. [Eng.]

A house or place for smelting.

Subject to be filled with smoke from chimneys or fireplace; as, a smoky house.

damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] Bartlett.

der the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails. Vegetius (Trans.).

To snow; to abound. [Obs.] It snewed in his house of meat and drink. Chaucer.

Compact, convenient, and comfortable; as, a snug farm, house, or property.

Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.

h; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin. They that wear soft clothing are in king's houses. Matt. xi. 8.

partment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.

Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.

rmerly also with a singular substantive of time or distance; as, a village of some eighty houses; some two or three persons; some hour hence. Shak. The number slain on the rebel's part were some two thousand. Bacon.

Neither very good nor very bad; middling; passable; tolerable; indifferent. In some Irish houses, where things are so-so, One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show. Goldsmith. He [Burns] certainly wrote some so-so verses to the Tree of Liberty. Prof. Wilson.

; safe. The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound. Chapman.

ickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. And he that can rear up a pig in his house, Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse. Tusser.

fly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House.

delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.

The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.