Part 913

House"hold` (?), n. 1. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family.

And calls, without affecting airs, His household twice a day to prayers.

Swift.

2. A line of ancestory; a race or house. [Obs.] Shak.

House"hold`, a. Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs.

Household bread, bread made in the house for common use; hence, bread that is not of the finest quality. [Obs.] -- Household gods (Rom. Antiq.), the gods presiding over the house and family; the Lares and Penates; hence, all objects endeared by association with home. -- Household troops, troops appointed to attend and guard the sovereign or his residence.

House"hold`er (?), n. The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.

Towns in which almost every householder was an English Protestant.

Macaulay.

Compound householder. See Compound, a.

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House"keep`er (?), n. 1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke.

2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.

3. One who exercises hospitality, or has a plentiful and hospitable household. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

4. One who keeps or stays much at home. [R.]

You are manifest housekeeper.

Shak.

5. A house dog. [Obs.] Shak.

House"keep`ing, n. 1. The state of occupying a dwelling house as a householder.

2. Care of domestic concerns; management of a house and home affairs.

3. Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. [Obs.]

Tell me, softly and hastily, what's in the pantry? Small housekeeping enough, said Phúbe.

Sir W. Scott.

House"keep`ing, a. Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.

Hou"sel (?), n. [OE. housel, husel, AS. hsel; akin to Icel. hsl, Goth. hunsl a sacrifice.] The eucharist. [Archaic] Rom. of R. Tennyson.

Hou"sel, v. t. [AS. hslian.] To administer the eucharist to. [Archaic] Chaucer.

House"leek` (?), n. [House + leek.] (Bot.) 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.

House"less, a. Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.