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Word Meanings - TUMBLE-DOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.

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  • TUMBLERFUL
    As much as a tumbler will hold; enough to fill a tumbler.
  • TUMBLE-DOWN
    Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
  • 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.
  • DILAPIDATOR
    One who causes dilapidation. Strype.
  • HOUSEBOTE
    Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
  • TUMBLEWEED
    Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.
  • HOUSEROOM
    Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
  • READY-MADE
    Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
  • 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
  • HOUSEMATE
    One who dwells in the same house with another. R. Browning.
  • HOUSEWRIGHT
    A builder of houses.
  • HOUSEKEEPER
    1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants
  • TUMBLE
    violently; akin to D. tuimelen to fall, Sw. tumla, Dan. tumle, Icel. 1. To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses. 2. To roll down; to fall suddenly and violently; to be precipitated; as, to
  • HOUSELING
    See HOUSLING
  • HOUSEWIFE; HOUSEWIVE
    To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize. Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which since they have well housewived. Fuller.
  • HOUSEBREAKING
    The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.
  • TUMBLER
    A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter. 4. A drinking glass, without a foot or stem; -- so called because originally it had a pointed
  • DILAPIDATE
    1. To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building. If the bishop, parson, or vicar, etc., dilapidates the buildings, or cuts down the timber
  • 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.
  • PRUINOUS
    Frosty; pruinose.
  • SLAUGHTERHOUSE
    A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
  • TRUGGING-HOUSE
    A brothel. Robert Greene.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • OVERREADY
    Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
  • WASHHOUSE
    An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.
  • UNHOUSED
    Driven from a house; deprived of shelter. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
  • NEATHOUSE
    A building for the shelter of neat cattle. Massinger.
  • MUGHOUSE
    An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel.

 

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