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Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

he act of coming to or reaching a throne, an office, or dignity; as, the accession of the house of Stuart; -- applied especially to the epoch of a new dynasty.

To lie or be next, or in contact; to be contiguous; as, the houses adjoin. When one man's land adjoins to another's. Blackstone.

Help; support; also, a helper. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.

power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

An unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

A half gable, as at the end of a penthouse or of the aisle of a church.

A bench in or before an alehouse. Bunyan.

of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

A pole set up as the sign of an alehouse. [Obs.]

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

A woman who keeps an alehouse. Gay.

an; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor.

One who distributes alms, esp. the doles and alms of religious houses, almshouses, etc.; also, one who dispenses alms for another, as the almoner of a prince, bishop, etc.

extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended. All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. Spenser.