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Definition of House-trained
1. Adjective. (of pets) trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place. "`house-trained' is chiefly British"
Definition of House-trained
1. Adjective. Of a pet: trained not to excrete indoors. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of House-trained
Literary usage of House-trained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"... I had ever seen was suspended in a basket in this house. Trained overhead in
wild profusion are Passion- Flowers, represented by ..."
2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"The good wife and her daughters cultivated the garden-patch that lay near the
house, trained the honeysuckles that shaded the door, spun the flax and ..."
3. Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman (1999)
"... from the opposite side by the enfilading fire of Wood. aided by Schofield's
guns on the hill in front of the Howard House trained on the enemy's flank. ..."
4. Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition by Edward Henry Knight (1880)
"»»st>8 opeu air along one side of this house, trained upon a low wire trellis.
They did not present as healthy an appearance Greenhouse with pavilion. ..."
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