Word Meanings - COUNTINGHOUSECOUNTINGROOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

• Merchantry
  The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.
• 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.
• Houseroom
  Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
• Housebreaker
  One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.
• Housewarming
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.
• Bookseller
  One who sells books.
• 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.
• Housewife
  The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Bookselling
  The employment of selling books.
• Housebuilder
  One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.
• Housewive
  To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Bookshelves
  of Bookshelf
• Housecarl
  A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.
• Housewifely
  Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.
• 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.

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