Word Meanings - STEPSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stone laid before a door as a stair to rise on in entering the house.

• Enterlace
  See Interlace.
• Enterplead
  Same as Interplead.
• 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.
• Stonebrash
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• STONEHORSE
  Stallion. [Obs.] Mortimer.
• Entermete
  To interfere; to intermeddle.
• Enterprise
  That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.
• 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.
• Stonebrearer
  A machine for crushing or hammering stone.
• Stoneroot
  A North American plant (Collinsonia Canadensis) having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse.
• STONESTILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• Entermewer
  A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.
• Enterpriser
  One who undertakes enterprises.
• 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.
• Stonebuck
  See Steinbock.

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