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One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.

A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.

dwell under the same roof and compose a family. And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers. Swift.

The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family. Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant. Macaulay. Compound householder. See Compound, a.

One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke.

The state of being occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

The eucharist. [Archaic] Rom. of R. Tennyson.

A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.

Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.

The state of being houseless.

A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing. Totten.

Same as Housling.

A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee (Med.), a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who work upon their knees.

One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning.

Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.

or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good housewife she. Dryden.

To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.

Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott.

The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.