Moot-house |
A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment. |
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Sugar-house |
A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory. |
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Tippling-house |
A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises. |
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Tiring-house |
A tiring-room. |
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Treasure |
Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. |
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Treasure |
A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty. |
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Treasure |
That which is very much valued. |
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Treasure |
To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold. |
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Treasure-trove |
Any money, bullion, or the like, found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears. |
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Trugging-house |
A brothel. |
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Weigh-house |
A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed. |
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House |
A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion. |
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House |
Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below. |
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House |
Those who dwell in the same house; a household. |
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House |
A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel. |
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House |
One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress, and Parliament. |
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House |
A firm, or commercial establishment. |
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House |
A public house; an inn; a hotel. |
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House |
A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
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House |
A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
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