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Definition of Housed
1. house [v] - See also: house
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housed
Literary usage of Housed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"A "housed" joint is one in which the end or edge of one piece is wholly let ...
housed joints are used principally in joining the ends of stair-treads and ..."
2. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1920)
"They had housed the Louis who proclaimed himself "the state," with his ...
HOTEL DES RESERVOIRS WHERE THE GERMAN DELEGATES WERE housed AT VERSAILLES ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"A heap of barley housed, or where it is housed. (Anglo- Saxon, »иное, a heap ;
Italian, mucchio ; Spanish, mucho.) Barley Sugar. Sugar boiled in a decoction ..."
4. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1900)
"CHAPTER LVII Fathom being safely housed, the Reader is entertained with a Retrospect
But now it is high time to leave our adventurer to chew the cud of ..."
5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"It seemed to me then like a person with two natures uneasily housed in one
perturbed body. These two natures were startlingly different. ..."
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