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Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]

n five miles; not longer in time than; as, within an hour; not exceeding in quantity; as, expenses kept within one's income. "That he repair should again within a little while." Chaucer. Within these five hours lived Lord Hastings, Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty. Shak.

A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.