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The state of being houseless.

A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing. Totten.

Same as Housling.

A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who work upon their knees.

One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning.

Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.

t or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good housewife she. Dryden.

To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

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.

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 combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.

A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.

raded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.

aris, a genus of perennial herbs. It was said to make sheep that fed on it lousy. Yellow lousewort , a plant of the genus Rhinanthus.

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

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