Word Meanings - TIPPLING-HOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.

• Housebreaker
  One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.
• Houseroom
  Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.
• 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.
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• Dramseller
  One who sells distilled liquors by the dram or glass.
• 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.
• 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.
• Household
  Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.
• Housewifely
  Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Householder
  The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.

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