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whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter. [Obs.] In my Father's house are many mansions. John xiv. 2. These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. Den

Resident; residentiary; as, mansionary canons.

The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy as a dwelling place. [Obs.] Shak.

Continuance. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

he natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. Sir W. Scott.

quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. W. Irving.

pt. Weale. Buttery hatch, a half door between the buttery or kitchen and the hall, in old mansions, over which provisions were passed. Wright.

A house or mansion. [Sp. Amer. & Phil. Islands]

Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.

To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily. Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole.

Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.

An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. Thackeray.

To frame; to built; to construct. [Obs.] "Fabric their mansions." J. Philips.

ame given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house. Cowell.

The mansion of a heavenly body. [Obs.]

In France, the mansion or town residence of a person of rank or wealth.

ind; 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. Shak.

r; a governor; a prince; a proprietor, as of a manor. But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion. Shak. Man over men He made not lord. Milton.

The farm attached to a mansion house. [Scot.]