Word Meanings - UNDERBUILDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor.
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- ASSISTANTLY
In a manner to give aid. - 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. - HOUSEBOTE
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. - HOUSEROOM
Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom. - UNDERBUILDER
A subordinate or assistant builder. An underbuilder in the house of God. Jer. Taylor. - 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 - SUBORDINATE
1. Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward. 2. Inferior in order, nature, dignity, power, importance, or the like. It was - 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 - TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in - 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. - HOUSEWORK
The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like. - HOUSEBREAKER
One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking. - HOUSELESS
Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer. - HOUSELEEK
A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum , originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen. - 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. - 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. - INSUBORDINATE
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous - 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. - 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. - CLUBHOUSE
A house occupied by a club.