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A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.

A pulling; a disturbance. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To pull; to haul; to tear; to worry. [Prov. Eng.] Shak. As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed. Spenser.

Same as Tousle. [Colloq.]

One who touses. [Prov. Eng.]

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.

Trousers. [Obs.] Spenser.

Cloth or material for making trousers.

the ankle, and covering each leg separately. pants; used attrib. in the singular, as a trouser leg; see pant

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.

To rouse up; to rouse from sleep; to awake; to arouse. Shak.

A cupping glass. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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.