Word Meanings - BETTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

• 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.
• 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.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• Housebreaker
  One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.
• Houseroom
  Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
• Another
  One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
• Havelock
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• 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.
• Housewarming
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.
• Another-gaines
  Of another kind.
• Housebuilder
  One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.
• Housewife
  The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
• Another-gates
  Of another sort.
• Havenage
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• Housecarl
  A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.
• Housewive
  To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
• Another-guess
  Of another sort.

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