Housed

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  House \House\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Housed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Housing}.] [AS. h?sian.]
     1. To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to
        cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by
        covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home;
        to house farming utensils; to house cattle.


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              At length have housed me in a humble shed. --Young.
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              House your choicest carnations, or rather set them
              under a penthouse.                    --Evelyn.
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     2. To drive to a shelter. --Shak.
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     3. To admit to residence; to harbor.
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              Palladius wished him to house all the Helots. --Sir
                                                    P. Sidney.
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     4. To deposit and cover, as in the grave. --Sandys.
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     5. (Naut.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make
        safe; as, to house the upper spars.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "housed":
     armored, billeted, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped,
     covered, covert, cowled, curtained, domiciled, domiciliated,
     eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped,
     filmed, floored, hooded, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked,
     muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, paved, quartered, roofed-in,
     screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, stabled,
     swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped