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n. A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A building comprising a number of lving units (apartments{ 4 }) designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; contrasted to a detached dwelling. Sometimes distinguished in the United States from a flat house, in which each living unit comprises one entire floor, whereas in an apartment house a floor may be partitioned into any number of apartments{ 4 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Aroused p. pr. & vb. n. Arousing. ] [ Pref. a- + rouse. ] To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse
His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

No suspicion was aroused. Merivale. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. emotionally stimulated.
Syn. -- stimulated, stirred, stirred up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. 1 brought to a state of great psychological tension.
Syn. -- wound up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. 1 stimulated to a state of awareness and interest. the aroused opposition
Syn. -- awakened. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. sexually aroused; feeling a strong urge for sexual activity.
Syn. -- aflame, hot, turned on(predicate), horny. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

5. excessively affected by emotion; -- of persons.
Syn. -- emotional, excited. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Back, a. + house. ] A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; an outhouse; a necessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bæchūs. See Bake, v. t., and House. ] A house for baking; a bakery. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) An insect of the family Coccidæ, which infests the bark of trees and vines. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The wingless females assume the shape of scales. The bark louse of the vine is Pulvinaria innumerabilis; that of the pear is Lecanium pyri. See Orange scale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cheap drinking and dancing establishment.
Syn. -- honky-tonk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a building containing dressing rooms for bathers.
Syn. -- bathing machine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a building containing public baths.
Syn. -- bagnio. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. bede prayer + E. house. See Bead, n. ] An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Beadhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house for bees; an apiary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Burnoose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Block + house: cf. G. blockhaus. ] 1. (Mil.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A house of squared logs. [ West. & South. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. blouse. Of unknown origin. ] A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock, worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat of the United States army. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.
Syn. -- boarding house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A house for sheltering boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) a minute wingless psocopterous insect (Liposcelis divinatorius) injurious to books and papers.
Syn. -- book louse, deathwatch. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To drink immoderately; to carouse; to booze. See Booze. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Drink, esp. alcoholic drink; also, a carouse; a booze. “A good bouse of liquor.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A toper; a boozer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having callouses; -- of skin.
Syn. -- thickened. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Camouse ] Depressed; flattened. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Though my nose be cammoused. B. Jonson [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. carrousse, earlier carous, fr. G. garaus finishing stroke, the entire emptying of the cup in drinking a health; gar entirely + aus out. See Yare, and Out. ] 1. A large draught of liquor. [ Obs. ] “A full carouse of sack.” Sir J. Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drink carouses to the next day's fate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A drinking match; a carousal. [ 1913 Webster ]

The early feast and late carouse. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Caroused p. pr. & vb. n. Carousing. ] To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take part in a carousal; to engage in drunken revels. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had been aboard, carousing to his mates. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drink up; to drain; to drink freely or jovially. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Guests carouse the sparkling tears of the rich grape. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

Egypt's wanton queen,
Carousing gems, herself dissolved in love. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a continuous belt oriented horizontally or near-horizontally around a central structure, driven in a circular motion by some mechanism, which carries luggage delivered from the luggage hold of an airplane to air travelers; -- used at airports.
Syn. -- luggage carousel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. same as merry-go-round.
Syn. -- merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who carouses; a reveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small building usually near a large residence or part of an estate, used for keeping coaches, carriages, or other vehicles; -- also called coach house. It is now (1998) obsolescent and its function has been taken over by the garage, which is usually attached to a residence or main building. Carriage houses are still found on older estates, though not usually used for their original purpose. [ PJC ]

n. A schoolhouse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chop quality. ] A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [ China ] S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house. [ 1913 Webster ]

The freedom of a chophouse. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Choused p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing. ] [ From Turk. chāūsh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of £4, 000. ] To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A swindler. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house occupied by a club. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution. . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself. . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Coletit. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Count, v. ] The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business; the offices used by the accountants of a business. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ See 2d Counter. ] A merchant's office; a countinghouse. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States. [ 1913 Webster ]

Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House. Barlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. [ Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dovecote. [ 1913 Webster ]