adj. 1. 1 shaped like a spine or thorn
Syn. -- spinous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. 'adelfo`s brother. ] (Bot.) Having coalescent or clustered filaments; -- said of stamens; as, adelphous stamens. Usually in composition; as, monadelphous. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + morfh` form. ] 1. Having no determinate form; of irregular; shapeless. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spineless, as certain fishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'an priv. + 'a`nqos a flower. ] (Bot.) Destitute of flowers; flowerless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthropomorphous plant. “Anthropomorphous apes.” Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A building comprising a number of lving units (apartments{ 4 }) designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; contrasted to a detached dwelling. Sometimes distinguished in the United States from a flat house, in which each living unit comprises one entire floor, whereas in an apartment house a floor may be partitioned into any number of apartments{ 4 }. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

pos>a. [ Cf. F. aphtheux. ] Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthæ; characterized by aphtæ; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Back, a. + house. ] A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; an outhouse; a necessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. bæchūs. See Bake, v. t., and House. ] A house for baking; a bakery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cheap drinking and dancing establishment.
Syn. -- honky-tonk. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a building containing dressing rooms for bathers.
Syn. -- bathing machine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a building containing public baths.
Syn. -- bagnio. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A house of prostitution; a house of ill fame; a brothel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. bede prayer + E. house. See Bead, n. ] An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Beadhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house for bees; an apiary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where malt liquors are sold; an alehouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, or containing, bismuth, when this element has its lower valence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Block + house: cf. G. blockhaus. ] 1. (Mil.) An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A house of squared logs. [ West. & South. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.
Syn. -- boarding house. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A house for sheltering boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small building usually near a large residence or part of an estate, used for keeping coaches, carriages, or other vehicles; -- also called coach house. It is now (1998) obsolescent and its function has been taken over by the garage, which is usually attached to a residence or main building. Carriage houses are still found on older estates, though not usually used for their original purpose. [ PJC ]

a. Catarrhal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A schoolhouse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chop quality. ] A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [ China ] S. W. Williams. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house where chops, etc., are sold; an eating house. [ 1913 Webster ]

The freedom of a chophouse. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Choused p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing. ] [ From Turk. chāūsh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of £4, 000. ] To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A swindler. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Cirrose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house occupied by a club. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A house of entertainment, where guests are supplied with coffee and other refreshments, and where men meet for conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The coffeehouse must not be dismissed with a cursory mention. It might indeed, at that time, have been not improperly called a most important political institution. . . . The coffeehouses were the chief organs through which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself. . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own time have been called -- a fourth estate of the realm. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ See Count, v. ] The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business; the offices used by the accountants of a business. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ See 2d Counter. ] A merchant's office; a countinghouse. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A county town; -- so called in Virginia and some others of the Southern States. [ 1913 Webster ]

Providence, the county town of Fairfax, is unknown by that name, and passes as Fairfax Court House. Barlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dovecote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. [ 1913 Webster ]

Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A morgue; a place for the temporary reception and exposure of dead bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. desmo`s bond + gna`qos jaw. ] (Zool.) Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. diadelphe. ] (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the class Diadelphia; having the stamens united into two bodies by their filaments (said of a plant or flower); grouped into two bundles or sets by coalescence of the filaments (said of stamens). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Didelphic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dimorphe. ] 1. (Biol.) Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Crystallog.) Crystallizing under two forms fundamentally different, while having the same chemical composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of house or home. “Dishoused villagers.” James White. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Distich, n. ] Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a distichous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]