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House House (hous), n.; pl. Houses. [OE. hous, hus, AS. h?s; akin to OS. & OFries. h?s, D. huis, OHG. h?s, G. haus, Icel. h?s, Sw. hus, Dan. huus, Goth. gudh?s, house of God, temple; and prob. to E. hide to conceal. See Hide, and cf. Hoard, Husband, Hussy, Husting.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster]

Houses are built to live in; not to look on. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the phrase to keep house. See below. [1913 Webster]

3. Those who dwell in the same house; a household. [1913 Webster]

One that feared God with all his house. --Acts x. 2. [1913 Webster]

4. 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. [1913 Webster]

The last remaining pillar of their house, The one transmitter of their ancient name. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

5. 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. [1913 Webster]

6. (Com.) A firm, or commercial establishment. [1913 Webster]

7. A public house; an inn; a hotel. [1913 Webster]

8. (Astrol.) 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. [1913 Webster]

9. A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [1913 Webster]

10. An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house. [1913 Webster]

11. The body, as the habitation of the soul. [1913 Webster]

This mortal house I ll ruin, Do C[ae]sar what he can. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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Usage: [With an adj., as narrow, dark, etc.] The grave. ``The narrow house. --Bryant. [1913 Webster]

Note: House is much used adjectively and as the first element of compounds. The sense is usually obvious; as, house cricket, housemaid, house painter, housework. [1913 Webster]

{House ant} (Zo["o]l.), a very small, yellowish brown ant ({Myrmica molesta}), which often infests houses, and sometimes becomes a great pest.

{House of bishops} (Prot. Epis. Ch.), one of the two bodies composing a general convertion, the other being House of Clerical and Lay Deputies.

{House boat}, a covered boat used as a dwelling.

{House of call}, a place, usually a public house, where journeymen connected with a particular trade assemble when out of work, ready for the call of employers. [Eng.]

{To bring down the house}. See under Bring.

{To keep house}, to maintain an independent domestic establishment.

{To keep open house}, to entertain friends at all times.

Syn: Dwelling; residence; abode. See Tenement. [1913 Webster]

House House, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Housed; p. pr. & vb. n. Housing.] [AS. h?sian.] 1. To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one s family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle. [1913 Webster]

At length have housed me in a humble shed. --Young. [1913 Webster]

House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]

2. To drive to a shelter. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

3. To admit to residence; to harbor. [1913 Webster]

Palladius wished him to house all the Helots. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]

4. To deposit and cover, as in the grave. --Sandys. [1913 Webster]

5. (Naut.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars. [1913 Webster]

House House, v. i. 1. To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge. [1913 Webster]

You shall not house with me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2. (Astrol.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. ``Where Saturn houses. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

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House of Commons [haus?fk?m?nz] Unterhaus
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Bible Dictionary

House
The houses of the rural poor in Egypt, as well as in most partsof Syria, Arabia and Persia, are generally mere huts of mud orsunburnt bricks. In some parts of Palestine and Arabia stone isused, and in certain districts caves in the rocks are used asdwellings. (amos 5:11) The houses are usually of one storyonly, viz., the ground floor, and often contain only oneapartment. Sometimes a small court for the cattle is attached;and in some cases the cattle are housed in the same building,or the live in a raised platform, and, the cattle round them onthe ground. (1 samuel 28:24) The windows are small apertureshigh up in the walls, sometimes grated with wood. The roofs arecommonly but not always flat, and are usually formed of plasterof mud and straw laid upon boughs or rafters; and upon the flatroofs, tents or "booths" of boughs or rushes are often raisedto be used as sleeping-places in summer. The difference betweenthe poorest houses and those of the class next above them isgreater than between these and the houses of the first rank.The prevailing plan of eastern houses of this class presents,as was the case in ancient Egypt, a front of wall, whose blankand mean appearance is usually relieved only by the door and afew latticed and projecting windows. Within this is a court orcourts with apartments opening into them. Over the door is aprojecting window with a lattice more or less elaboratelywrought, which, except in times of public celebrations isusually closed. (2 kings 9:30) An awning is sometimes drawnover the court, and the floor is strewed with carpets onfestive occasions. The stairs to the upper apartments are inSyria usually in a corner of the court. Around part, if not thewhole, of the court is a veranda, often nine or ten feet deep,over which, when there is more than one floor, runs a secondgallery of like depth, with a balustrade. When there is nosecond floor, but more than one court, the women sapartments--hareems, harem or haram--are usually in the secondcourt; otherwise they form a separate building within thegeneral enclosure, or are above on the first floor. When thereis an upper story, the ka ah forms the most importantapartment, and thus probably answers to the "upper room," whichwas often the guest-chamber. (luke 22:12; acts 1:13; 9:37;20:8) The windows of the upper rooms often project one or twofeet, and form a kiosk or latticed chamber. Such may have been"the chamber in the wall." (2 kings 4:10,11) The "lattice,"through which Ahasiah fell, perhaps belonged to an upperchamber of this kind, (2 kings 1:2) as also the "third loft,"from which Eutychus fell. (acts 20:9) comp. Jere 22:13 Paulpreached in such a room on account of its superior rise andretired position. The outer circle in an audience in such aroom sat upon a dais, or upon cushions elevated so as to be ashigh as the window-sill. From such a position Eutychus couldeasily fall. There are usually no special bed-rooms in easternhouses. The outer doors are closed with a wooden lock, but insome cases the apartments are divided from each other bycurtains only. There are no chimneys, but fire is made whenrequired with charcoal in a chafing-dish; or a fire of woodmight be made in the open court of the house (luke 22:65) Somehouses in Cairo have an apartment open in front to the courtwith two or more arches and a railing, and a pillar to supportthe wall above. It was in a chamber of this size to be found ina palace, that our Lord was being arraigned before the highpriest at the time when the denial of him by St. Peter tookplace. He "turned and looked" on Peter as he stood by the firein the court, (luke 22:56,61; john 18:24) whilst he himself wasin the "hall of judgment." In no point do Oriental domestichabits differ more from European than in the use of the roof.Its flat surface is made useful for various household purposes,as drying corn, hanging up linen, and preparing figs andraisins. The roofs are used as places of recreation in theevening, and often as sleeping-places at night. (1 samuel9:25,26; 2 samuel 11:2; 16:22; job 27:18; proverbs 21:9; daniel4:29) They were also used as places for devotion and evenidolatrous worship. (2 kings 23:12; jeremiah 19:13; 32:29;zephaniah 1:6; acts 10:9) At the time of the feast oftabernacles booths were erected by the Jews on the top of theirhouses. Protection of the roof by parapets was enjoined by thelaw. (22:8) Special apartments were devoted in larger houses towinter and summer uses. (jeremiah 36:22; amos 3:15) The ivoryhouse of Ahab was probably a palace largely ornamented withinlaid ivory. The circumstance of Samson s pulling down thehouse by means of the pillars may be explained by the fact ofthe company being assembled on tiers of balconies above eachother, supported by central pillars on the basement; when thesewere pulled down the whole of the upper floors would fall also.(judges 16:26)