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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. Shak.

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.

One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.

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

ho 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.

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