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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.

Not having received the sacrament. [Obs.] [Written also unhouselled.] To die like the houseless dog on yonder common, unshriven and unhouseled. Sir W. Scott.

The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell.

Unprepared; unequipped. [Obs.] Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled. Shak.

of, and so set as to be vertical while the roof slopes away from it. Also, the gablet, or houselike structure, in which it is contained.

Composed of firm pulp; succulent; as, the houseleek, cactus, and agave are fleshy plants.

A houseline. See Houseline.

(a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber). (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. Prior. (c) the cloverlike Anthyllis Barba-Jovis. -- Jupiter's staff (Bot.), the common mullein; -- so called from i…

Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

hort prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek.

The houseleek.

A genus of fleshy-leaved plants, of which the houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum) is the commonest species.

The houseleek.

Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.

juicy. Succulent plants (Bot.), plants which have soft and juicy leaves or stems, as the houseleek, the live forever, and the species of Mesembryanthemum.