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HOUSE, sb.1 and v. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. Eng. and Amer. Also in forms haase, hahse w.Yks.; haise s.Chs.1; hause w.Yks.; hawwse Cum.1 Cum.4; heawse Lan.1; hooas Cum.1 Cum.4; hooase Lakel.2; hoos e.Yks.1; hoose Sc. Cai.1 Bnff.1 Nhb.1 Cum.1 Cum.4 n.Yks.2; houze Oxf.1 Suf.1 Wil. Som. Cor.; howze I.W.; oose ne.Sc.; owze Dev.3 [aus, Sc. n.Cy. hūs, w.Yks. ās, Lan. ēs, s.Cy. eus.] I. Gram. forms. 1. sb. sing. ? Housen. Glo. My father's grandfather lived in that 'ere housen, Gibbs Cotswold Vill. (1898) 388. s.Wil. ‘Yan housen,’ yonder house, Monthly Mag. (1814) II. 114. 2. pl. Housen. [Not known to our correspondents n. of Yks.] Dmb. Wrathfu' waters, hurlin' wi' their shock The very housen fra' the rifted rock, Salmon Gowodean (1868) 40. Rnf. O lassie, will ye tak' a man? Rich in housen, gear an' lan? Tannahill Poems (1807) 13 (Jam.). Nhb.1, n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 ne.Yks.1 Aback o' t'hoosen. w.Yks.2 Lan. Housen and castles and kings decay, Roby Trad. (1872) II. 121. Chs. (E.F.) Stf. It's nine or ten housen up, Murray Joseph's Coat (1882) 100. s.Stf. Some praichers bin mighty particler what housen they gone to dinner to, Pinnock Blk. Cy. Ann. (1889) 63. Not. (J.H.B.), Not.1 s.Not. Still in use (J.P.K.). Lin.1 n.Lin.1 Rare. s.Lin. Common (T.H.R.). Rut.1, Lei.1 War. B'ham Wkly. Post (June 10, 1893); War.1 War.2 War.3 War.4 s.War.1 Still very commonly used. m.Wor. (J.C.), se.Wor.1, Nhp.1 Nhp.2 Shr.1 'Ousen bin despert scase about theer; Shr.2, Hrf.1 Hrf.2, Rdn.1 Glo. Spends more time in their neighbours' housen nor iver thay doos in their own, Buckman Darke's Sojourn (1890) xv; Glo.1 Glo.2, Oxf.1 Brks. Gl. (1852); (W.H.Y.) Hrt. (H.G.); Ousen, Ellis Pronunc. (1889) V. 202. Hnt. (T.P.F.), e.An.1 e.An.2, Cmb. (J.D.R.) Nrf. Still often used by quite old people (E.M.); I niver knew housen had naames, A.B.K. Wright's Fortune (1885) 32. Suf. Yet used freq. (C.G.B.); Ellis Pronunc. 285; Suf.1 e.Suf. Very common (F.H.). Ess. (S.P.H.); Them housen, sir, is harnted, Downe Ballads (1895) 17; Ess.1, Sus. (J.L.A.), Hmp.1 n.Hmp. I remember as a boy hearing the pl. ‘housen,’ but I never meet with it now (E.H.R.). s.Hmp. It was not down to housen gay, that Christ a Child came for to stay, Verney L. Lisle (1870) III. 34. I.W.1 Wil. (K.M.G.); Slow Gl. (1892); Wil.1 52. n.Wil. Thur beant nobody in these yer housen, Jefferies Gt. Estate (1880) ix. Dor. The bright-shod veet vrom housen round, Barnes Poems (1869-1870) 3rd S. 9. Som. Jennings Obs. Dial. w.Eng. (1825); W. & J. Gl. (1873). e.Dev. Pulman Sng. Sol. (1860) Notes, 3. Cor. Fram our houzen and hoam, J. Trenoodle Spec. Dial. (1846) 33; Cor.2 Nearly obs.; Cor.3 Obsol. [Amer. Dial. Notes (1896) I. 331.] II. Dial. uses. 1. sb. In comp. (1) House-arse, the sea anemone; (2) House-ball, a girls' game of ball; (3) House-body, a dwelling-room; (4) House-boggart, an imp or goblin supposed to haunt houses or dwellings; (5) House-boot(e or House-bote, obs., the right of getting wood to repair houses; (6) House-carles, obs., household servants; (7) House-cat, fig. a stay-at-home; (8) House-dame, the mistress of the house; (9) House-devil, a ‘devil at home, a saint abroad’; (10) House-dirt, the dust of a house; (11) House-dove, a person who is constantly at home; (12) House-dowly, a tenderly brought up person; (13) House-dweller, a householder; (14) House-end, (a) the gable or end of a house; (b) the parlour in a house; see End, sb.1 3; (c) used as a simile for anything very large; (15) House-fare, household provisions; (16) House-fast, confined to the house by illness, &c.; (17) House-fasten, to confine to the house by illness; (18) House-fellow, (a) a fellow-servant; (b) a wife; (19) House-fending, household management; (20) House-folk(s, (a) the inmates of a house; (b) the house-servants; (21) House-gear, household furniture; (22) House-green, the house-leek, Sempervivum tectorum; (23) House-haddin, house-keeping; (24) House-handsel, the convivialities on taking possession of a new dwelling; (25) House-head, (a) the head of the house; (b) the ridge of the house roof; (26) House-heat, (27) House-heating, a ‘house-warming’ or festivity given on coming to a new house; (28) House-hicht, (a) applied to a person of small stature; (b) in a state of excitement or anger; (29) House-hold, ordinary; of bread common as distinguished from fancy; (30) House-hold goods, see (21); (31) House-holdments, households, tenements; (32) House-holdry, household utensils; (33) House-keep, to keep indoors or in the house; (34) House-keeper, (a) used of any one staying at home in charge of a house; (b) see (7); (c) an heirloom, an old piece of family furniture; (d) a bum-bailiff; (35) House-kept, confined to the house owing to some preventing cause, other than illness; (36) House-lamb, a lamb set aside for feeding for the table; (37) House-leek (Houzlick, Huslock), (a) the plant, Sempervivum tectorum; (b) the biting stonecrop, Sedum acre or Sedum reflexum; (38) House-maill, obs., house-rent; (39) House-master, see (25, a); (40) House-midges, common house-flies; (41) House-money, a wife's allowance for household expenditure; (42) House-nook, an ingle-nook; (43) House-plat, the ground on which a farm-house is built, with its immediate surroundings; (44) House-proud, proud and fond of one's house or home; taking pride in having one's house nice and well kept; (45) House-provven, see (15); (46) House-rearing, obs., a feast given when the roof of a new house was put on; (47) House-ridding, changing houses, moving; (48) House-rigg, (49) House-riggin, the ridge at the top of the roof; (50) House-row, in phr. by house-row, (a) from house to house, taking the houses as they come; (b) see below; (51) House-side, a big, clumsy person; (52) House-snail, the common shell-snail; (53) House-stead, (a) the site of a house; (b) the kitchen, gen. occupied by the farmer and his family; (54) House-tendered, said of a person that has become delicate by confinement to the house; (55) House-things, articles of furniture; (56) House-verdeen, a servant who has charge of the outdoor work on a farm; (57) House-wallah, one who inhabits a house in contradistinction to a tent; (58) House-warming, a wedding gift or present made on first keeping house; (59) House-wean, a female servant; (60) House-wifery, (61) House-wifeskep, house keeping; (62) House-worthy, said of an article of sufficient value to be taken care of, or stored by. (1) Cum.4 (2) Lth. The ‘lassies games’ were skipping on the ‘jumpin'-rope,’ the ‘house ba',’ the ‘pickies,’ Strathesk More Bits (ed. 1885) 33. (3) w.Yks. (E.G.) (4) Lan. The house-boggarts, or industrious yet mischievous imps haunting dwellings, Harland & Wilkinson Flk-Lore (1867) 59. (5) Nhb.1, n.Yks.2, w.Yks.2 Lin. Streatfeild Lin. and Danes (1884) 338. n.Lin.1 Cor. The prior gave ‘privilege and freedom’ to the poor of Bodmin for gathering, for ‘fire-boote and house-boote,’ such boughs and branches of oak-trees in his woods... as they could reach to... with a ‘hook and a crook,’ Hunt Pop. Rom. w.Engl. (1865) 434, ed. 1896. (6) Gall. How many sons and limber house-carles can you spare, Ardarroch,.. to march with me? Crockett Standard Bearer (1898) 68. n.Yks.2 (7) Dev.1 I wish her was'n such a houze-cat, but wud go more abroad; 'twid do her good, 5. (8) n.Yks.2 (9) Peb. Causey saint an' house devil, Wi' your wife ye canna gree, Affleck Poet. Wks. (1836) 128. (10) Lnk. I'm wadin ankle-deep in stoor and hoose-dirt, Murdoch Readings (ed. 1895) II. 96. (11) w.Cy. (Hall.) (12) e.An.1 (13) Stf.1 (14, a) Abd. Whaur was he? Saumerin' at his ain hoose-end, Guidman Inglismaill (1873) 60. Per. He vanish'd in a flash o' fire an' smoke, Vanish'd, an' took the house-end wi' him near! Haliburton Dunbar (1895) 86. Ayr. There would come twa or three birkies... snoakin' after her at the hoose-en', Service Notandums (1890) 111. Lth. Mind ye yon aik that grew at our house-end? Ballantine Poems (1856). Gall. The herd-lads and ploughmen were gathered at the house-end when I came up the loaning, Crockett Standard Bearer (1898) 187. n.Cy. (J.W.) (b) w.Yks. Andrew Law and the child had, in dale-phrase, ‘taken the house-end at Gibb's Ha'’; that is, the little parlour at Gibb's Ha', with the chamber over it, Howitt Hope On (1840) vi. (c) Not.1 Lei.1 Beard? Ah, as big as a 'aouse-end! A een't a man wi' a beard, a een't! A's a beard wi' a man ahoint it. (15) n.Yks.2 (16) Sc. O' ither wives wha ne'er were keepit hoose-fast Like what she was, Allan Lilts (1874) 153. n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4, ne.Yks.1, m.Yks.1 (17) m.Yks.1 (18, a) w.Yks.2 (b) Lan. He came back and told me that his house-fellow had gone out, Walkden Diary (ed. 1866) 58. (19) n.Yks.2 A poor hand at house-fending. (20, a) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4 (b) Lakel.2 T'hoose fooak's them at stops at hiam an' du't gah oot ta work i' t'fields. Cum. T'hoose-fwok gat mair help, Dickinson Lamplugh (1856) 5. n.Yks.1 (s.v. Folk). (21) Sc. She has held the house-gear well together, Scott Pirate (1821) v. n.Yks. (T.S.), n.Yks.2 Dor. How still do all the housegear stand Around my lwonesome zight, Barnes Poems (1869-1870) 3rd S. 94. (22) Chs.1, Nhp. (B. & H.), War.3 (23) Sh.I. Wissin' an' waddin' are pör hoose haddin', Spence Flk-Lore (1899) 216. (24) n.Yks.2 Before occupying a fresh house, a person should go into every room, bearing a loaf and a plate of salt, for luck to the new place. (25, a) Ayr. She was up on the househead, Ballads and Sngs. (1846) I. 74. (b) Frf. There lichtit a corbie on oor hoose-heid, Watt Poet. Sketches (1880) 19. (26) Dmf. At brydal shaw, or new house heat, We thraw auld age awa, Jo! Cromek Remains (1810) 48. (27) Sc. The foondin', the hoose-heatin', the foy, the maiden, Ford Thistledown (1891) 124. ne.Sc. When the house was taken possession of, there was a feast, the hoose heatin or fire kinlin, Gregor Flk-Lore (1881) 51. Cai.1 s.Sc. There's to be a hanlin' at Braehead the nicht ─ a hoose heatin, Wilson Tales (1836) II. 292. Ayr. Flitting in at the back end, we had our house-heating on Hogmanay, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 119. (28, a) Bnff.1 He's nae twa hoose-hicht mair nor I am [or me]. (b) Bnff.1 He wiz hoose-hicht at the factor fin he set's fairm bye 'im. (29) w.Som.1 Aew·zl brai·d. (30) w.Som.1 Furniture of a house is scarcely ever called by any other name. ‘I would not mind giving up the house if I could tell what to do with my household-goods’ [aew·zl gèodz]. (31) n.Yks. With some other odd householdments within the said township, Quart. Sess. Rec. (Jan. 12, 1724-1725) in N. R. Rec. Soc. IV. 171. (32) Ayr. To judicate that leddies would be flinging householdry at ane anither's heads, Galt Lairds (1826) xiv. (33) n.Yks.2 ‘Mun we hoose-keep her?’ that is, the sickly cow; must she remain indoors, or be let out? (34, a) n.Lin.1 There's no housekeepers at home, is there, missis? My daughter's at home, so I've a housekeeper. Charles has stayed at home to be housekeeper a bit. (b) n.Lin.1 I'm a real hoose-keäper noo, I hevn't been to Brigg markit for oher a twel’ munth. She's a good hoose-keäper, niver runs clartin' efter th' lads. (c) Chs.1 An old oak chest in a cottage was spoken of by its owner as ‘a nice old housekeeper.’ s.Chs.1 Such a piece of furniture is often spoken of as a ‘good owd haïse-keeper.’ (d) Hrf.2 (35) n.Yks.1 n.Yks.4 (36) Mid. Some of these barns are fitted with deal linings, partitions, and floors for the purpose of suckling house lambs, Marshall Review (1817) V. 128. Dor. The breed of sheep which is remarkable for supplying the metropolis with house-lamb at a very early season, MARSHALL Review 279. (37, a) Wm. Hoose leek is good fer sair spots (B.K.). n.Yks. (T.S.) ne.Yks.1 Usually planted on the ridge of thatched houses. e.Yks.1 w.Yks. It's only a bit o' house-leek, you can get plenty at t'pooblic- 'ouse ovver t'waäy (F.P.T.). Nhp.1 This plant is traditionally regarded as a preservative from lightning; whence arises its frequency on the roofs of our rural cottages. Suf.1 (b) Nhp. Its thatch with houseleek blooms was yellow o'er, Clare Jockey and Jenny; Close beneath the houseleek's yellow flower, CLARE Jockey and Jenny (B. & H.) (38) Abd. The tenth penny of ilk house maill within the town was also uplifted, Spalding Hist. Sc. (1792) I. 290. Fif. Ane thousand merks monie, with ane hundreth merkis of housmaill, Row Ch. Hist. (1650) 44, ed. 1842. (39) n.Yks.2 Is t'hoose-maisther at yam? (40) n.Yks.2 (41) Lan.1 ‘Does he turn up his wages?’ ‘Nawe, he gies me what he loikes for th' heawse-money, an' keeps th' rest for hissel.’ Sur. (L.J.Y.) (42) w.Yks. (S.P.U.) (43) w.Yks. Mem. Rev. J. Gregory (1876) 13. (44) n.Yks. Sha's sa hooseprood noo 'at sha caht bide ta see a thing ather dusty er oot ov t'pleeas (W.H.). w.Yks. You are what you call house-proud; you like to have everything handsome about you, Brontë Shirley (1849) xviii. Lan. Hoo was very house-proud, was mother, hoo was that, Longman's Mag. (July 1896) 254; Lan.1 We had some talk with that class of operatives who are both clean, provident, and heawse-proud, as Lancashire folk call it, Waugh Factory Flk. (1867) vi. n.Lin.1 She's not a bit hoose-prood, iv'rything is alus at sixes and sevens. (45) n.Yks.2 (46) n.Lin.1 Spent at ye houses rearing 2s., Lea Overseer's Acc. (1752). (47) Dor. Are you house-ridding to-day like every one else? Hardy Tess (1891) 467, ed. 1895. (48) Cum. They have a saying... that when bairns reach a certain age, they are thrown on the house-rigg, and that those who stick on are made thatchers of, while those who fall off are sent to St. Bees to be made parsons of, Cassell's Tech. Educ. (1879) IV. 366. w.Yks. Thare cat... jump't up... an away she went ovver t'hause-rigs like wildfire, Tom Treddlehoyle Bairnsla Ann. (1843) 14. (49) Sc. Heap them as high as the house-riggin', Scott Antiquary (1816) xxxiii. (50, a) s.Not. 'E took an' distributed the bills by 'ouse-row (J.P.K.). n.Lin.1 To call at every house in a street or village, as rate-collectors and distributors of handbills do, is to go by house-row. (b) s.Not. The labourers who, being out of work, were formerly sent by the overseer of the poor to work for the different farmers in succession, were said to go by house-row. They were called house-row men; rounds-men in other parts of the country (J.P.K.). n.Lin.1 Before the Act of Parliament was passed for rating poor-law unions as a whole, it was customary for the farmers, instead of giving a pauper direct relief, to let him go by house-row, that is, each farmer employed him at a low rate of wages for a time proportionate to the land which he occupied. sw.Lin.1 The old plan of keeping men employed, when work was scarce, by finding them so many days' work at each house in the parish in turn. ‘It used to go by house-row.’ ‘They used to go by house-row when feyther was agate.’ (51) n.Sc. Sic a house-side o' a wife (Jam.). (52) nw.Dev.1, s.Dev. (F.W.C.) (53, a) n.Yks.2 (b) n.Cy. Holloway. (54) n.Yks.2 (55) Lnk. They had gathered twa-three hoose-things thegither, Murdoch Readings (ed. 1895) II. 53. (56) Sh.&Ork.1 (57) Hmp.1 Used commonly by the gypsy-tribes in n.Hmp. (58) Cor.1 (59) n.Yks.2 (60) Per. Your skill in housewif'ry is widely known, Stewart Character (1857) 175. (61) Sc. My hand is in my housewifeskep, Old Sng. (Jam.); I wadna affront your housewifeskep, gudewife, Scott Bride of Lam. (1819) xii. Per. Wi' that she sent some blankets on before, Turn'd to her huswifeskep, and no words more, Haliburton Dunbar (1895) 101. (62) n.Yks.2 2. Phr. (1) house and hall, entirely, completely; a clean sweep; (2) house of industry, the workhouse; (3) house of Keys, the Manx House of Parliament; (4) house of ore, an accumulation of rich ore in a mine; (5) house of water, an old working in a mine, full of water; (6) all the house, the whole household; (7) in house, indoors; (8) to be at the house-top, to be in a great rage; (9) to bring the house or old house over the head, to bring a calamity by carelessness or improvidence; (10) to get on like a house on fire, to get on very rapidly or well; (11) to put or throw the house out at the windows, to cause great disorder and confusion. (1) Fif. Root, root her out o'house and ha’, Tennant Papistry (1827) 27. Gall. A very common phr. in connection with a person's losing all his property and being left homeless as well as poor (A.W.). (2) Shr. In addition to the house of industry at Shrewsbury, Marshall Agric. (1818) II. 212. Oxf. The House of Industry for the reception of the poor of eleven of our fourteen parishes, Peshall City (1773) 221, in Clark Wood's City (1889) I. 393. (3) I.Ma. He is one of the 24 keys. He sits for Peel; as member of the House of Keys, he is entitled to write M.H.K. after his name (S.M.). (4) Cor.2 (s.v. Carbonas). (5) Cor.2 Old workings that are full of water are sometimes called ‘gunnies of water,’ yet more commonly, ‘a house of water’ (s.v. Gunnies). (6) ne.Sc. Part of the invitation to attend a wedding was, ‘Come our and fess a' yir oose wi' ye,’ Gregor Flk-Lore (1881) 98. (7) Som. I couldn't speak when I came in house (T.K.L.). (8) w.Yks.1 (9) Nhp.1, War.3, Hnt. (T.P.F.) (10) Nhp.1, War.3, Hnt. (T.P.F.), Sur. (L.J.Y.), Cor. (L.C.A.T.) (11) w.Yks.1 nw.Der.1 Yo'n put th' house out at th' windus. Nhp.1, War.3 3. pl. House property. N.Cy.1, n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 Wor. ‘He gave him some housen,’ bequeathed some house property to him (E.S.). 4. The workhouse. In gen. colloq. use. Lnk. Many old people... have to enter the ‘house,’ as it is nick-named, like humble suppliants, Gordon Pyotshaw (1885) 163. w.Yks. They think we'd best go into t'house, Fletcher Wapentake (1895) 21. Oxf. They were at last safely housed in the new House, Stapleton Parishes (1893) 162; Oxf.1 MS. add. Brks. They would ha’ liked to ha' seen me clean broke down, that's wut they would, and in the house, Hughes T. Brown Oxf. (1861) xxxix. Lon. She died in the house in Birmingham, Mayhew Lond. Labour (ed. 1861) II. 378. Ken. If you or me, Dimmick, was to be took with a stroke, or a fit, or any sich thing, off to the house they'ld bundle us, sure as my eye, Cornh. Mag. (Jan. 1894) 56. Sur.1 He most always goes into the house in winter. Sus. Feeling I suppose aggrieved by being obliged to go into ‘the house,’ Egerton Flks. and Ways (1884) 11. Dor. Who's a-goin' to take you on as a new hand if you leave me? It'll be the House, man, Longman's Mag. (Nov. 1898) 48. Colloq. The respectable poor have a natural repugnance to ‘the House,’ Standard (Sept. 6, 1887) 5. 5. The portion of a building, consisting of one or more rooms, occupied by one tenant or family. Sc. Among the working classes... even in modern legislation the word ‘house’ is used for any separately occupied portion of a building, while the word ‘tenement’ represents the whole edifice, 2nd Rep. R. Comm. Housing Wking. Classes (1885) 4. 6. A room; a room in any building. w.Som.1 Dev. Hewett Peas. Sp. (1892) 109. n.Dev. In answer to my inquiry Lizzie was summoned from the ‘back houze,’ when she emerged grinning broadly as usual, E.E.D. Dev. Village in Outlook (Apr. 16, 1898) 332; Jan, clare tha 'cess in t'other houze, Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) st. 4. [Amer. This grew up from the custom of having houses of one room, or two, connected by a porch, each of which rooms was called a house, Dial. Notes. (1865) I. 372.] 7. The kitchen or general living-room in a farm-house or cottage. Ant. N. & Q. (1893) 8th S. iv. 93. n.Cy. Grose (1790); N.Cy.2 Cum.1 The apartment or living room into which the front door opens. The ground floor consists of house, parlour, kitchen, and milk-house; Cum.4 Wm. The door,.. leading into what Westmoreland folk call the ‘house.’ or sitting-room of the farm, was open, Ward R. Elsmere (1888) 133. n.Yks.2; n.Yks.4 Deean't set it doon i' t'hoos, tak it inti t'parlour. ne.Yks.1 Sha's nut i' bed, sha's i' t'hoos. e.Yks. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1788); e.Yks.1 The better room of a farm-house. m.Yks.1 w.Yks. A cottage often consists of a ‘house’ and two chambers [a living-room and two bedrooms] (S.P.U.); w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3 w.Yks.4; w.Yks.5 Always the room on the ground floor, in which the family take their meals, and use throughout the day. ‘Awāay wi' thuh up i' t'house [from the kitchen] an' fotch muh t'long brush darn.’ n.Lan. (W.S.) s.Lan. It includes kitchen and the regular sitting-room or the room in which the family mostly live ─ not the parlour (S.W.). s.Chs.1, Not. (L.G.M.), Not.1 Not.3, Der.1, nw.Der.1, n.Lin.1 sw.Lin.1 The floor of the house is worse than the kitchen. Some would ha' putten him in the kitchen, or in a chamber, but I ha' kep' him in the house. Rut.1 The best kitchen or inner living room in a farm or good-sized cottage. A stranger is often invited to ‘Joost step into the house’ when he is under the impression that he is in the house already. Lei.1 Nhp.1 So gen. adopted, that houses are so described in the advertisements in our local papers. 1832. ‘To be let, a dwelling comprising a parlour, house, kitchen, and back-kitchen’; Nhp.2 War.2 Any ground-floor room as opposed to the kitchen. Glo. He stepped into the ‘house,’ the large inhabited kitchen so-called, Gissing Vill. Hampden (1890) i. Oxf.1 My missis ent in the house, but I knows er's indoors some-ur, MS. add. Bdf. Batchelor Anal. Eng. Lang. (1809) 135. e.An.1, Ess. (H.H.M.) sw.Eng. The living room is nearly always called the house, while the second room is the ‘back-house,’ N. & Q. (1893) 8th S. iv. 93. w.Som.1 The living room; the ground floor gen. Dhu vloo·ur-z u-wae·urd aew·t, eens úz u guurt oa·l rai·t-n dhu múd·1 u dh-aew·z [The floor is worn out, so that there is a great hole right in the middle of the living room]. Hence (1) House-place, sb. (a) the kitchen or general living-room in a farm-house or cottage; (b) the parlour of a farm-house, containing the best furniture and seldom used; (2) House-room, see (1, a). (1, a) n.Cy. Grose (1790). n.Yks. He ushered her into the kitchen or house-place, Simpson Jeanie o' Biggersdale (1893) 177; n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 w.Yks. Crunch can rooam abaat booath i' th' room an th' haase place, Hartley Clock Alm. (1887) 30; (J.T.) Lan. What an aspect of comfort did his house-place present, Gaskell M. Barton (1848) ii; Lan.1 Come, my wench, let's have this heawse-place cleaned up. Chs.1, s.Chs.1 Stf.1 A room with a quarried floor, used as a kitchen and sitting-room. Der.2, Not.1 Not.3, s.Not. (J.P.K.), sw.Lin.1 Lei. A messuage at Market Harborough... consisting of a houseplace fronting the street with two chambers and garret over the same, Particulars of Sale (1803); Lei.1, Shr.1 s.Wal. The mistress sat feathering in the doorway of the house-place, Longman's Mag. (Dec. 1899) 143. (b) Chs.3 (2) Cum. He's in t'house-room, Dalby Mayroyd (1880) II. 12. 8. Curling term: the circle round the tee within which the stones must lie to count. Sc. Frae bristles, dottles, an' the like, Aye sweep the hoosie clean; May nane gang roarin thro' the hoose, Royal Caled. Curling Club Ann. (1894-1895) 101; There's no a stane in a' the hoose, Royal Caled. Curling Club Ann. 348. Ayr. ‘Stand wide, men,’ cried William Sorby, for the eager onlookers were crowding uncomfortably close to the ‘house,’ Johnston Kilmallie (1891) II. 113. Lth. After the stone had passed between the two [other stones], David swept behind the tee, and ‘saw him out o' the house,’ Strathesk More Bits (ed. 1885) 272. 9. Obs. A deep bing broader at the top than at the bottom, used in smelting tin. Der. (Hall.) Cor. The black tin is smelted... with charcoal only, first throwing on charcoal, then upon that black tin, and so interchangeably into a very deep bing (which they call the house), Ray Blowing of Tin (1691) 12; (K.) 10. v. To go indoors, go into the house. Nhb.1 ‘Have you seen the clergyman?’ ‘No; he mun be hoosed.’ 11. To go gossiping from house to house. Used in prp. Cor. Thomas Randigal Rhymes (1895) Gl. Hence Houser, sb. one who goes from house to house gossiping. Cor.3 She'm always making mischief ─ she'm a reglar houser. 12. To shelter, take into the house; to hide. Lth. E'en when weary warkmen house, Their sair forfoughen spunks to rouse, Ballantine Poems (1856) 69. Nhb.1, Yks. (Hall.), n.Yks.2 w.Yks. If a chap comes wi' a cart looad o' coils... my fayther 'll haase em, Hartley Clock Alm. (1883) 13. Lan. The hinds say they were carefully heawsed an' fettled, Kay-Shuttleworth Scarsdale (1860) II. 84. 13. Of hay or corn: to get under cover, either in rick or barn. Gall. At ev'ry stack we meand to house, There with the currs he happed crouse, Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 400, ed. 1876. Cum. We wor hoosin' a stack, Farrall Betty Wilson (1886) 135; When fwok hed hoose't hay aw t'day, Richardson Talk (1876) 2nd S. 155. nw.Der.1 Oxf.1 MS. add. s.Cy. (Hall.) Ken.1 We've housed all our corn. Sur.1 w.Som.1 All the corn's a-housed in our parish. Dev.3 Be yü agwaine tü owze yer corn tü-day, maister? Hence (1) Housed, pp. covered over; (2) Housing, vbl. sb. the act of getting hay, corn, &c. under cover; (3) Housing-supper, sb. a harvest-supper. (1) Der.1 Obs. (2) Lan. When th' heawsin wur done, eh, We had some rare fun, Laycock Sngs. (1866) 53. e.Lan.1 (3) Lan. Simon and his daughther were axed to th' heausin supper, Clegg Sketches (1895) 9. 14. Of corn, hops, &c.: to grow thick and compact. Gen. in pp. e.An.1, e.Suf. (F.H.) Sus.1 When hops have a great deal of bine, and the poles are thickly covered over the top, so as almost to shut out the light and sun, they are said to be ‘housed.’ Ken. Holloway.

HOUSE, sb.2 Obs. Dev. A child's blanket; a coverlet, wrapper, mantle. Horae Subsecivae (1777) 218; Grose (1790) MS. add. [Fr. housse, a coverlet, or counter-point for a bed (COTGR.).]

HOUSE, sb.3 Chs.1 Chs.3 The act of a cow or bull when turned out of the ‘shippon,’ throwing itself on a hedge or hedge-bank to have a satisfactory scratch, working away violently with the horns and often kneeling down to the work.

HOUSE, see Houst.

HOUSE, sb. Cum. Yks. Der. Not. Lin. Oxf. Suf. Dor. Som. 1. In comp. (1) House-druft, of clothes: dried at the fire in the house, instead of out of doors; (2) House-end, (a) the gable or end of a house; (b) used as a simile for anything very large; (3) House-fast, confined to the house; (4) House-height, very much, a great deal; used as an intensitive; (5) House-mouse, an animal much in the house; (6) House-proud, proud of one's house or home; taking pride in having a nice well-kept house; (7) House-ridding, changing houses, moving; (8) House-rigging, the ridge at the top of the roof; (9) House-row, in phr. by house-row, from house to house, taking the houses as they come. (1) w.Yks. ‘Is it bahn ta rain, think ye?’ ‘Yus, it lewks lahk hahse-druf ageean’ (B.K.). (2) n.Yks. (I.W.) (3) Cum. Carlisle Patr. (Aug. 13, 1903); (E.W.P.) (4) n.Yks. It stinks house-height, very much (I.W.). (5) n.Yks. Our cat's a great house-mouse (I.W.). (6) Der. Theere's no sayin' as hoo weerena haase-praad, Gilchrist Nicholas and Mary (1899) 182. s.Not. I like a woman to be a bit house-proud (J.P.K.). Suf. Alice was as ‘house-proud’ as only eastern county women can be; exquisitely clean, slaving for her furniture, Gurdon Memories (1897) 8. (7) Dor. Left her, uncall'd at house-ridden, To bide at Woak Hill, Barnes Poems (1869-1870) 3rd S. 11. Som. Raymond Gent. Upcott (1893) 35. (8, 9) n.Yks. (I.W.) 2. Phr. (1) as big as one end of a house, said of any one very stout. Oxf. (A.P.) Cf. house-end (c); (2) to be up to the top of the house, to be in a state of great excitement or anger. n.Yks. (I.W.); (3) to throw the house out of the windows, to make a great noise or disturbance in a house. n.Lin.1