Word Meanings - BAWDYHOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel.

• Housekeeping
  The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
• Housewright
  A builder of houses.
• Prostitution
  The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
• 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.
• HOUSEWIFEHOUSEWIVE
  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.
• Brotheler
  One who frequents brothels.
• Houseless
  Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.
• Brothelry
  Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel.
• Houselessness
  The state of being houseless.
• Houseline
  A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing.
• Houseling
  Same as Housling.
• Housemaid
  A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms.
• Housebote
  Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.
• Housemate
  One who dwells in the same house with another.
• Housebreaker
  One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.

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