Lexicographical Neighbors of Houfing
Literary usage of Houfing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sportsman's Dictionary: Or, The Country Gentleman's Companion, in All ...Sports (1735)
"... taking him from grafs, or houfing him. DUCKS are amphibious birds, that live
on land and water, of which the male is called a drake: there are two forts ..."
2. The Farrier's and Horseman's Complete Dictionary:: Containing the Art of by Thomas Wallis (1759)
"Booe-houfing is a piece of fluff faft- ened to the hinder part of the faddle that
covers a ... dirt, &c. and is of iwo kinds, either boot-houfing or ..."
3. Collection of Yearly Bills of Mortality, from 1657 to 1758 Inclusive by James Postlethwayt, John Graunt, Sir William Petty, Corbyn Morris, William Heberden (1759)
"BY the city of London, we mean the houfing within the walls of the old city, with
the liberties thereof, ... By the cubical content of the faid houfing, 4. ..."
4. Several Essays in Political Arithmetick by William Petty (1755)
"... the houfing (taking all together) is now more valuable than forty Years ago,
nor is this to be doubted, fince houfing is now more ..."
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