Word Meanings - HOUSELINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing.

• Housewifery
  The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.
• Smallish
  Somewhat small.
• Three-nerved
  Having three nerves.
• 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.
• THREEQUARTER
  Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures. Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Householder
  The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.
• Housework
  The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
• Smallness
  The quality or state of being small.
• Three-parted
  Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite.
• HOUSTONIA
  A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.
• THREESCORE
  Thrice twenty; sixty.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Housekeeper
  One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.
• Housewright
  A builder of houses.
• Smallpox
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thi
• Threepence
  A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny.
• THREECOAT
  Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.

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