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A fuse. See Fuse, n.

A hot, acrid, oily liquid, accompanying many alcoholic liquors (as potato whisky, corn whisky, etc.), as an undesirable ingredient, and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers, but particularly of amyl alcohol; hence, specifically applied to amyl alcohol.

ying machine; sometimes, erroneously, any kind of frame or body. Many aëroplanes have no fuselage, properly so called.

A house connected or associated with a gate.

A shop where gill is sold. Thee shall each alehouse, thee each gillhouse mourn. Pope.

A building where cotton is ginned.

A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.

A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.

To seek or shoot grouse.

(Dredging, Pile Driving, etc.) A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage.

A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.

A firearm with match holder, trigger, and tumbler, made in the second half of the 15th century. the barrel was about forty inches long. A form of the harquebus was subsequently called arquebus with matchlock.

A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

The roebuck in its third year. [Prov. Eng.]

A house or shelter for fowls.

A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion. Houses are built to live in; not to look on. Bacon. Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away. Sh…

Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.

One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.

The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.