Word Meanings - HOUSEWARMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.

• Merrythought
  The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.
• MAKEBELIEF
  A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.
• 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.
• Makeless
  Matchless.
• Make-peace
  A peacemaker.
• Possession
  The act or state of possessing, or holding as one's own.
• MAKEBELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
• 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.
• Possessionary
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• Businesses
  of Business
• 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.
• Makeshift
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
• Possessioner
  A possessor; a property holder.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Business
  That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before p

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