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Housing : (noun)
1: housing structures collectively; structures in which people
are housed [syn: lodging, living accommodations]
2: a protective cover designed to contain or support a
mechanical component
3: stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse,
especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison, trapping,
trappings, housings]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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House \House\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Housed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Housing.] [AS. h?sian.]
1. To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to
cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by
covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home;
to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
At length have housed me in a humble shed. --Young.
House your choicest carnations, or rather set them
under a penthouse. --Evelyn.
2. To drive to a shelter. --Shak.
3. To admit to residence; to harbor.
Palladius wished him to house all the Helots. --Sir
P. Sidney.
4. To deposit and cover, as in the grave. --Sandys.
5. (Naut.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make
safe; as, to house the upper spars.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Houseline \House"line`\, n. (Naut.)
A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called
also housing. --Totten.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Housing : \Hous"ing\, n. [Based on Houss.]
1. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or
military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in
plural, trappings.
2. An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Housing : \Hous"ing\, n. [Based on House. In some of its senses this
word has been confused with the following word.]
1. The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state
of dwelling in a habitation.
2. That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.
--Fabyan.
3. (Arch.)
(a) The space taken out of one solid, to admit the
insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber
in the side of another.
(b) A niche for a statue.
4. (Mach.) A frame or support for holding something in place,
as journal boxes, etc.
5. (Naut.)
(a) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath
the deck or within the vessel.
(b) A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck
of a ship when laid up.
(c) A houseline. See Houseline.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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