Word Finder - houses

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A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.

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This is my house and my family's ancestral home.

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The people who live in a house; a household.

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A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word).

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On arriving at the zoo, we immediately headed for the monkey house.

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The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

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A theatre.

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After her swan-song, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.

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A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature.

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The petition was so ridiculous that the house rejected it after minimal debate.

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A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

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A curse lay upon the House of Atreus.

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A place of rest or repose.

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A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

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I was a member of Spenser house when I was at school.

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An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

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One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

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The fourth Lenormand card.

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A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece.

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The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

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Lotto; bingo.

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A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

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As the babysitter, Emma always acted as the mother whenever the kids demanded to play house.

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A small stand of trees in a swamp.

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(sudoku) A set of cells in a Sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box in classic Sudoku.

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To keep within a structure or container.

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The car is housed in the garage.

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To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.

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To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.

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To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.

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To contain or cover mechanical parts.

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To drive to a shelter.

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To deposit and cover, as in the grave.

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To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.

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to house the upper spars

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To eat.

Even now, the houses were farther apart; some separated by large fields.

One of their safe houses was hit earlier.

There are several handsome commercial and banking houses.

In 1813 he was called on to give evidence upon Indian affairs before the two houses of parliament, which received him with exceptional marks of respect.

The street he was on looked as it had on the television he said, but the houses were absent numbers so it took him a few moments to locate the correct place.

The houses of the Campidano are mostly built of sun-dried unbaked bricks.

And the people whose houses or lives it saves?

As soon as the men of the various regiments began to disperse among the wealthy and deserted houses, the army was lost forever and there came into being something nondescript, neither citizens nor soldiers but what are known as marauders.

Pull down your houses and go into bondage!

The houses are often of one storey only.

I observed that the vitals of the village were the grocery, the bar-room, the post-office, and the bank; and, as a necessary part of the machinery, they kept a bell, a big gun, and a fire-engine, at convenient places; and the houses were so arranged as to make the most of mankind, in lanes and fronting one another, so that every traveller had to run the gauntlet, and every man, woman, and child might get a lick at him.

There were thugs in the streets, bars on the windows of sagging houses, and cars on blocks.

That goes for the closed doors of people's minds and thoughts as well as their elegant houses.

He approached what had been one of many former safe houses belonging to the White God near the base of the Tucson Mountains.

A gas station that fixed flats, a few houses and the store – that was about it.

She couldn't get over the amount of chicken houses.

The city owns its water-supply system and owns and operates its gas plant; an electric plant, privately owned, lights the streets and many houses.

So they said, We must go to a new country far away and build schools and houses and churches and make new cities.

In addition there are training schools for teachers, an episcopal seminary, a conservatoire and an art academy with a fine collection of pictures mainly taken from the religious houses of the city on their suppression in 1795.

His two wives, Alice Ufford and Alice Fitton - heir of Fitton's manor in Wiggenhall - were both daughters of knightly houses.

The public buildings include the cathedral (1760), the government palace, the municipal palace, the episcopal palace, the church of Santa Ana, a national theatre, a school of arts and trades, a foreign hospital, the former administration building of the Canal Company, Santo Tomas Hospital, the pesthouse of Punta Mala and various asylums. The houses are mostly of stone, with red tile roofs, two or three storeys high, built in the Spanish style around central patios, or courts, and with balconies projecting far over the narrow streets; in such houses the lowest floor is often rented to a poorer family.

In the i 1 th century this new form of devotion was extolled by some of the most ardent reformers in the monastic houses of the west, such as Abbot Popon of Stavelot, St Dominic Loricatus (so called from his practice of wearing next his skin an iron lorica, or cuirass of thongs), and especially Cardinal Pietro Damiani.

The custom of collective flagellation was introduced into the monastic houses, the ceremony taking place every Friday after confession.

Several species of Dermestidae are commonly found in houses, feeding on cheeses, dried meat, skins and other such substances.

So Basil of Cappadocia (Epistle 93), about the year 350, records that in Egypt the laity, as a rule, celebrated the communion in their own houses, and partook of the sacrament by themselves whenever they chose.

Many of the houses are of brick decorated with glazed tiles.

A long line of houses called Caesarea connected it with Ravenna, and in process of time there was such a continuous series of buildings that the three towns seemed like one.

He took a prominent part in the dispute in 1671 between the two Houses concerning the right of the Lords to amend money bills, and wrote a learned pamphlet on the question entitled The Privileges of the House of Lords and Commons (1702), in which the right of the Lords was asserted.

Of 52 protected persons on one line, all escaped except two, who were careless; of 52 protected on another line, all escaped; while of 51 unprotected persons, living in alternate houses, all suffered except seven.

The result was that the houses were free from mosquitoes and no malaria occurred throughout the entire season, though there had been 40 cases in the previous year.

By living in protected houses and wearing gloves and veils at night all the staff escaped malaria except one or two attendants.

For instance, the swampy character of malarial areas is explained by their breeding in stagnant water; the effect of drainage, and the general immunity of high-lying, dry localities, by the lack of breeding facilities; the danger of the night air, by their nocturnal habits; the comparative immunity of the upper storeys of houses, by the fact that they fly low; the confinement of malaria to well-marked areas and the diminution of danger with distance, by their habit of clinging to the breeding-grounds and not flying far.

In temperate climates the impregnated females hibernate during the winter in houses, cellars, stables, the trunks of trees, &c., coming out to lay their eggs in the spring.

Gorinchem possesses several interesting old houses, and overlooking the river are some fortified gateways of the 17th century.

The town is very picturesque, both from its magnificent position and also from the unusually large number of fine 13th-century houses and palaces which still exist in its streets.

Their houses are slightly built, but the surrounding ground and roads are laid out with great care and taste.

The town was traversed by a well-paved street with a stone sewer, and contained several important private houses and a larger one which seems to have been FIG.

The " Solemn League and Covenant," which pledged both countries to the extirpation of prelacy, leaving further decision as to church government to be decided by the " example of the best reformed churches," after undergoing some slight alterations, passed the two Houses of Parliament and the Westminster Assembly, and thus became law for the two kingdoms. By means of it Henderson has had considerable influence on the history of Great Britain.

Nearly in the centre of the town is the Ptolemaic and Roman temple of the ram-headed Khnum, almost buried in rubbish and houses.

Up to 1835 he was elected annually by the two houses of the legislature, and no man could serve as governor for more than three years in any six successive years.

The population in the lower and warmer valleys live in houses, and follow agriculture; in the higher regions they are nomadic shepherds, thinly scattered over a large area.

We hear first of the Fujiwara family, and then of the rivalry between the houses of Taira and Minamoto.

However, he regarded St Anselm as his friend, and he showed the customary liberality to religious houses.

Its streets, sloping sharply, contain many old houses.

But the costume and physiognomy of the inhabitants, the narrow streets and flatroofed, whitewashed houses, and more than all, the thousands of palm-trees in its gardens and fields, give the place a strikingly Oriental aspect, and render it unique among the cities of Spain.

The arable land within the city is mainly on the west and north; only to the south-east do the houses come right to the walls.

The houses are built of clay with (generally) flat roofs impervious to fire.

The Order was at variance within itself; some of the houses of the brethren refused to obey the marshal, and the grand master quarrelled with the German master.

It has wide and regular streets, flanked by numerous gabled houses, and is surrounded by pleasant promenades on the site of its old ramparts.

Of its old houses, the Tambour mansion, and a portion of that which belonged to the cardinal of Ferrara, both of the 16th century, are still preserved; apart from the palace, the public buildings are without interest.