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PORTERHOUSE n.
A house where porter is sold. Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part.
POSTHOUSE n. 2 definitions
A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained.
POTHOUSE n.
An alehouse. T. Warton.
PRICKLOUSE n.
A tailor; -- so called in contempt. [Old slang] L'Estrange.
RATTLEMOUSE n.
A bat. [Obs.] Puttenham.
REARMOUSE; REREMOUSE n.
The leather-winged bat (Vespertilio murinus). [Written also reermouse.]
REERMOUSE n.
See Rearmouse.
REREMOUSE n.
A rearmouse.
RIGHTEOUSED a.
Made righteous. [Obs.]
ROUNDHOUSE n. 4 definitions
A constable's prison; a lockup, watch-house, or station house. [Obs.]
ROUSE n. 11 definitions
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic. Fill the cup, and fill the can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.
ROUSER n. 3 definitions
One who, or that which, rouses.
SCHOOLHOUSE n.
A house appropriated for the use of a school or schools, or for instruction.
SCOUSE n.
A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
SEA LOUSE n.
Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes.
SEA MOUSE n. 2 definitions
A dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides.
SEA WOOD LOUSE n.
A sea slater.
SHREWMOUSE n.
A shrew; especially, the erd shrew.
SLAUGHTERHOUSE n.
A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
SMOKEHOUSE n.
A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
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