Word Meanings - TUMBLE-DOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.

• 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.
• Householder
  The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.
• Housewifery
  The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.
• Housework
  The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.
• READYMADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• Housekeeper
  One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.
• Housewright
  A builder of houses.
• READYWITTED
  Having ready wit.
• Dilapidated
  of Dilapidate
• Housekeeping
  The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.
• TUMBLEDOWN
  Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. [Colloq.]
• Dilapidating
  of Dilapidate
• Ready-made
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• Dilapidate
  To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.
• Houseleek
  A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.
• Ready-witted
  Having ready wit.
• Dilapidation
  The act of dilapidating, or the state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined, or squandered.
• Houseless
  Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.

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