Word Meanings - BRENBRENNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To burn. [Obs.] Chaucer. Consuming fire brent his shearing house or stall. W. Browne.

• Housewright
  A builder of houses.
• Stalling
  of Stall
• Consummative
  Serving to consummate; completing.
• Housekeeping
  The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
• Stallage
  The right of erecting a stalls in fairs; rent paid for a stall.
• Consumption
  The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
• Houseleek
  A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), 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.
• Shearing
  of Shear
• Stallation
  Installation.
• Consumptive
  Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
• Houseless
  Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.
• Consumptively
  In a way tending to or indication consumption.
• Houselessness
  The state of being houseless.
• Shearbill
  The black skimmer. See Skimmer.

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