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A tiring-room. [Obs.] Shak.

A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.

A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.

A house for children to play in or to play with; a playhouse.

A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.

A brothel. [Obs.] Robert Greene.

To drive from a house or habitation; to dislodge; hence, to deprive of shelter.

Driven from a house; deprived of shelter.

Not having received the sacrament. [Obs.] [Written also unhouselled.] To die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled. Sir W. Scott.

A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.

One who keeps a warehouse; the owner or keeper of a dock warehouse or wharf store.

An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.

A house in which a watch or guard is placed.

A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.

A small house on or above a vessel's deck, containing the steering wheel.

A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather.

A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.

Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.

A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.

here and there in; to and fro in; throughout. Lampoons . . . were handed about the coffeehouses. Macaulay. Roving still about the world. Milton.