Word Meanings - MARSHALSEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between
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The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household. Court of Marshalsea, a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house to administer justice between the king's domestic servants. Blackstone.
Related words: (words related to MARSHALSEA)
- FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - HOUSEWIFE
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good - HOUSEWARMING
A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson. - COURTESAN
A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp. - PRISONMENT
Imprisonment. Shak. - STEWARDSHIP
The office of a steward. Shak. - COURT TENNIS
See TENNIS - COURT-CUPBOARD
A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak. - HOUSEBOTE
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. - BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5. - HOUSEROOM
Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom. - COURTEPY
A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer. - COURTBRED
Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly. - HOUSEWIFELY
Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent. A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Sir W. Scott. - HOUSEMAID
A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms. Housemaid's knee , a swelling over the knee, due to an enlargement of the bursa in the front of the kneepan; -- so called because frequently occurring in servant girls who - COURTESANSHIP
Harlotry. - COURT-MARTIAL
A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law. - JUSTICESHIP
The office or dignity of a justice. Holland. - HOUSEMATE
One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning. - COURTLIKE
After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly. - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - WAREHOUSE
A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison. - POSTHOUSE
1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office. - HENHOUSE
A house or shelter for fowls. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - TRUGGING-HOUSE
A brothel. Robert Greene. - INJUSTICE
1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. - FULL HOUSE
A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind. - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. - TIRING-HOUSE
A tiring-room. Shak. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - HOTHOUSE
A heated room for drying green ware. (more info) 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. Shak. - BEADHOUSE; BEDEHOUSE
An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. - WASHHOUSE
An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry. - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - UNHOUSED
Driven from a house; deprived of shelter. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym: - NEATHOUSE
A building for the shelter of neat cattle. Massinger.