housewarm 
with to-day, and some wine, and housewarm my Betty 
Michell. Pepys, Diary, III. 1. 
housewarming (hous'war"ming), n. A merry- 
making entertainment to celebrate the entry 
of a family into a new home. 
A good town-house obtain'd, 
The next thing to be thought of is now 
The house-warming party. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 347. 
housewife 1 (hous'wif or huz'wif or huz'if), .; 
pi. housewives (-wivz or huz'ivz). [Colloq. or 
obs. huswife; < ME. houswif, husewif, hoseivif, 
hustoif, -wyf; < hansel- + wife. Cf. the var. 
forms of huswife 1 , hussy 1 ."] The mistress of a 
family; the wife of a householder; a female 
manager of domestic affairs. 
A housewife, that by selling her desires 
Buys herself bread and clothes. 
Shak., Othello, iv. 1. 
Mrs. Robson was a Cumberland woman, and, as such, 
was a cleaner housewife than the farmers' wives of that 
northeastern coast, and was often shocked at their ways. 
Mrs. Gaskcll, Sylvia's Lovers, iv. 
Housewife's clotht, a linen cloth of moderate fineness, 
used for family purposes in general. The phrase was in use 
from the close of the sixteenth to the close of the eigh- 
teenth century. 
housewife 1 (hous'wif), v. t.\ pret. and pp. liouse- 
wifed, housewived, ppr. housewifing, housewiving. 
[< housewife*, n .] TO manage like a housewife, 
or with skill and thrift; economize. [Bare, or 
not now used.] 
Conferred those moneys on the nuns, which they have 
well housewived. Fuller. 
housewife 2 (hous'wif or huz'wif), n. [An ac- 
com. form of huswife^.] A case for pins, nee- 
dles, thread, scissors, etc. : same as hussy 2 . 
Mrs. Unwin begs me in particular to thank you warmly 
for the housewife, the very thing she has just begun to 
want. Cowper. 
I had also a substantial housewife ; ... it was a roll of 
canvass, . . . garnished with needles and thread, cob- 
blers'-wax, buttons, and other such articles. 
R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 36. 
housewifely (hous'wlf-li), a. [< housewife* + 
-ty 1 .] Pertaining to or characteristic of a 
housewife; pertaining to the female manage- 
ment of a house; like a housewife; thrifty. 
My Araminta, a retir'd sweet life, 
Private, and close, and still, and housewifely. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, ii. 2. 
A good sort of woman, ladylike and housewifely. Scott. 
housewifely (hous'wif-li), adv. [< ME. hous- 
wyjly ; < housewife 1 + -fy 2 .] With the economy 
of a careful housewife. 
Houswijfli thou schalt goon on the worke day (iwis), 
Pride, reste, & ydilnes, inakith on-thriftines. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 43. 
housewifery (hous'wif -ri orhuz'wif-ri orhuz'- 
if-ri), H. [< housewife 1 + -ry.~] The business 
of the mistress of a household; the woman's 
part in the economy of a family; female man- 
agement of domestic concerns. 
So Somerset herself to profit doth apply, 
As given all to gain, and thriving housevtifry. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, iii. 362. 
The Old Lady ... is a great though delicate connois- 
seur in butcher's meat and all sorts of housewifery. 
Hone's Everyday Book, II. 191. 
housewifeskep (huz'if-skep), . [Sc., vernac- 
ularly hussi/fskep, hussyskep, hissiesJcip, < house- 
wife 1 , hussif 1 , + -sleep, -skip, dial. var. of -ship.] 
Housewifery. [Scotch.] 
Quoth our gudeman to our gudewife, 
" Get up and bar the door. " 
"My hand is in my hussyskep, 
Goodman, as ye may see ; 
An' it shou'dna be barr'd this bunder year, 
It's ne'er be barr'd by me." 
Get up and Bar the Door (Child's Ballads, VIII. 126). 
housewright (hous'rit), n. A builder of houses. 
Some, farriers ; some, locksmiths ; . . . some, house- 
wrighte; some, shipwrights; and some, the joiners of 
smaller works. Fotherby, Atheomastix (1662), p. 193. 
housing 1 (hou'zing), n. [< ME. kousinge, hows- 
synge, housing, shelter, dwelling (= MLG. hu- 
sing, LG. husing, husitig = MHG. husunge) ; ver- 
bal n. of house 1 , v. In some senses overlapped 
by housing 2 , q. v.] 1. The act of putting in a 
house or under shelter. 2f. The building of 
houses. 
As wel freres as other folke folilich spenen [spend] 
In housyng, in hateryuge, and in-to hiegh clergye shew- 
ynge, 
More for pompe than for pure charite. 
Piers Plowman (B), rv. 76. 
3f. A collection or range of houses. 
Merlin comauuded the kynge to beilde f eire huwsynge, 
where he sholde euer after holde his courte and his liye 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), L 63. 
2904 
But ye shal vnderstande that, at this day [A. D. 981], t 
d most howsynge and buyldynge fr 
, the 
cytie o"f London had most howsynge and buyldynge from 
Ludgate towarde Westminster. Fabyan, Chron., I. xcvii. 
4. Provision of house or shelter; the act of 
providing with houses : as, the housing of the 
poor. 5. Any covering or shelter, as a protec- 
tion for a vessel laid up in a dock. 
The shepheardes tente or pauillion, the best housing, 
because it was the most auncient & most vninersall. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eug. Poesie, p. 18. 
They left all their sick folks at Plimouth, until they were 
settled and fitted for housing to receive them. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 80. 
6. In carp., the space taken out of one piece 
to admit of the insertion of the extremity of 
another, for the purpose of connecting them. 
7. In arch., a niche for a statue. 8. Naut., 
same as house-line. 9. In mack. : (a) The part 
of the framing which holds a journal-box in 
place : called in the United States a jaw. (b) 
The uprights supporting the cross-slide of a 
planer, (c) One of the lateral plates of the box 
of a car-axle; a housing-box ; a journal-box. 
10f. All that appertains to the house or home- 
stead, its outbuildings, etc. Bartlett. 
It is enacted by the court and authoritie thereof, that 
henceforth no person or persons shall permit any meet- 
ings of the Quakers to bee in his house or housing. 
Plymouth Colony Laws, 1661. 
housing 2 (hou'zing), n. [Verbal n. of house 2 , 
.] 1. A covering; specifically, the trappings 
or caparison of a horse ; especially, a complete 
covering used for defense or to coverandconceal 
defensive armor, or for ceremonial purposes 
only: generally in the plural. Compare trap- 
ping, bard?, caparison. 
The Chingani . . . make a coarser sort of tapestry or 
carpet work for housings of saddles, and other uses. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 207. 
The cattle used for draught in this country [Bologna] 
are cover' d with housings of 1 i i men fring'd at the bottome. 
Evelyn, Memoirs, 1645. 
The knightly housing's ample fold 
Was velvet blue, and trapped with gold. 
Scott, Marmion, i. 6. 
2. The leather fastened at a horse's collar to 
turn over the back when it rains. Halliwett. 
housing-box (hou'zing-boks), n. In mack., same 
as journal-box. 
housing-cloth (hou'zing-kloth), n. A horse- 
cover. 
housing-frame (hou'zing-fram), n. In a roll- 
ing-mill, the frame which holds the rollers ; the 
bearer of the housing. 
houslingt, . and a. See liouseling. 
housst, . and v. See house?. 
Houstonia (hos-to'ni-a), n. [NL. (Gronovius), 
after Dr. William Houston, a British botanist, 
who died in 
1733.] A genus 
of dicotyledo- 
nous gamopet- 
alous plants, 
belonging to 
the natural or- 
der Rubiaeece, 
tribe Hedyoti- 
dece. It has flow- 
ers with the calyx- 
lobes mostly dis- 
tant, and the co- 
rolla salverform to 
funnelform with 
4-parted limb. 
About 20 species 
are known, natives 
of North Amer- 
ica. They are low 
herbs with hete- 
rogonous dimor- 
phous flowers, the 
corollablue or pur- 
ple to white. H. coyrulea is a delicate perennial forming 
dense tufts from 2 to 4 inches high, with corolla lilac-bine 
varying to white, with yellowish eye. It is common from 
Canada to Michigan, and south to Georgia and Alabama, 
and is known by the name of bluet, but is also sometimes 
called innocence. 
housty (hous'ti), n. ; pi. kousties (-tiz). [Var. 
of haust 1 , hoast.] A sore throat. [Prov. Eng.] 
Lady Grenvile . . . had a great opinion of Lucy's medi- 
cal skill, and always sent for her if one of the children 
had a housty, i. e. sore-throat. 
Kingsley, Westward Ho, xv. 
hout (hot), interj. Another (Scotch) spelling of 
hoot. 
houting (hou'ting), n. A kind of whitefish, Co- 
regonus oxyrhynchus, of the fresh waters of Great 
Britain and northern Europe, 
hout-tout (ho't'tof), interj. Same as hoot. 
"Hout tout, man!" answered Jasper, "keep a calm 
sough." Scott, Monastery, xiv. 
Hottttonia cemtlea. a, flower ; b, fruit. 
Hovese 
houvet, [Now only in dial, form lime (see 
IK nr->); ME. houve, howve, < AS. hufe (= D. luiif 
= LG. huve = OHG. huba, MHG. toe, G. /IM&C 
= Icel. liufa = Sw. liufva = Dan. 7me), a cover- 
ing for the head; prob. akin to hedfod, liead: 
see head.} A hood; a coif; a cap; a head-cov- 
ering of various kinds. See hood. Cliant-( r. 
Houyhnhnm (hou'inm or ho'inm), n. [A fan- 
tastic combination of letters, not necessarily 
intended to imitate the sound of neighing. The 
pronunciation assigned is arbitrary.] One of 
the beings described by Swift in "Gulliver's 
Travels" as horses endowed with reason and 
extraordinary virtues, who bear rule over the 
Yahoos or man-like beings, a vicious, disgusting 
race. 
Our countrymen would hardly think it probable that a 
Houyhnhnm should be the presiding creature of a nation, 
and a Yahoo the brute. Swift, Gulliver's Travels, iv. 3. 
Nay, would kind Jove my organs so dispose, 
To hymn harmonious Htruyhnhnm through the nose, 
I'd call thee Houyhnhnm that high-sounding name ; 
Thy children's noses all should twang the same. 
Pope, Mary Gulliver to Lemuel Gulliver. 
hova 1 (ho'vS,)," n. [Malagasy.] A mole-like 
Madagascari mammal, Oryzoryctes hova. 
Hova 2 (ho'vH,), n. and a. [Malagasy.] I. n. 
1. One of ttie dominant race inhabiting Mada- 
gascar. 
Only a few months ago French politicians called the 
HOBOS barbarians. Fortnightly Ren., N. S., XLI. 436. 
2. As a native plural, the Hovas taken collec- 
tively. See the extract. 
The Hum or commoners form the mass of the free pop- 
ulation of Imgrina. . . . This is, of course, a special and 
restricted use of the word, Horn in its widest sense being 
a tribal name, and including all ranks of people in Imerina 
royalty, nobles, commoners, and slaves alike. 
Encyc. Brit., XV. 172. 
II. a. Pertaining to the Hovas or to their 
language, which is a form of Malagasy. 
hove 1 t (hov), ji. j. [< ME. hoven, wait, linger, 
hover (much used in these senses), also, rarely, 
move (stand aside), rarely tr. entertain, cherish, 
foster, < AS. as if 'hofian (= OFries. hovia = 
OD. hoven, receive into one's house, entertain), 
< hof = OFries. hof, etc., house: see hovel. 
The place of hore 1 is taken in mod. E. by its 
freq. hover, q. v. The W. hofio, hover, fluctuate, 
is from the E.] 1. To wait; linger; loiter; 
hover about. 
Upon Candelmas euen, the maior being warned that the 
king should come to Westminster, he with the more part 
of the aldermen came vnto Knight's Bridge, and houed 
there to salute the king, and to know his further pleasure. 
Graf ton, Hen. III., an. 41. 
2. To hover in the air. 
In the heghest to houe and beholde ouer. 
All the lond for to loke when hym lefe thought. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1840. 
Thus hawkyd this Egle and lunml abone, . . . 
That he ne [laujte] with his lynage lie louyd ffull sone. 
Richard the Redeless, ii. 176. 
3. To float. 
A little bote lay having her before, 
In which there slept a fisher old and pore. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 27. 
4. To move; stand aside. 
Hove out of my sonne 
And lette it shine into my tonne. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., II. 323. 
hove 2 (hov). Preterit and past participle of 
heave. 
hove 3 (hov), v. ; pret. and pp. hored, ppr. having. 
[< ME. hoven; a form of heave (ME. heven) due 
to pret. hove, pp. hoven : see heave. ] I. trans. 1 . 
To lift ; heave. [North. Eug.] 2. To swell ; 
inflate. [Scotch.] 
II. intrans. 1. To rise; ascend. 2. To swell. 
[Scotch.] 
hove 4 t, v. An obsolete aphetic form of behove, 
behoove. 
Me houeth to yelde the to Ihesu Criste, of that he hath 
yove me power, and that I may not do. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 33. 
hove 5 (hov), n. Same as hoove^. 
hove 6 (hov), n. The ground-ivy, Nepeta Gk- 
choma. 
Hovea (ho've-a), n. [NL., after Anthony Pan- 
taleon Hove, a Polish botanist.] A small ge- 
nus of highly ornamental leguminous shrubs 
from Australia, having blue or purple flowers 
in axillary clusters or very short racemes, alter- 
nate simple leaves, and short turgid pods. It 
is the type of Lindley's tribe Hovece. 
Hoveae (ho've-e), n. pi. [NL., < Hovea + -ea;.~\ 
A tribe of leguminous plants proposed by Lind- 
ley (1846), and adopted by Bentham, but now 
referred to the tribe Genistece. See Hovea. 
