Noun

(houses)

(lb) Human habitation.

#(senseid) A structure serving as an abode of human beings.

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#*:The big houses , and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys. You catch a glimpse of them sometimes at a little distance from the [railway] line, which seems to have shown some ingenuity in avoiding them,.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path 

#An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.

#A building used by people for something other than a main residence (typically with qualifying word).

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#A public house, an inn, or the management of such.

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#(senseid) A place of public entertainment, especially (without qualifying word) a theatre; also the audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.

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#*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house , and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}

#A brothel.

#(lb) A place of business; a company or organisation.

#(lb) The building where a deliberative assembly meets; hence, the assembly itself, forming a component of a (national or state) legislature.

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#A printer's or publishing company.

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#A place of gambling; a casino.

#A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.

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(lb) Extended senses.

#(lb) Somewhere something metaphorically resides; a place of rest or repose.

#*1598 , (Ben Jonson), (Every Man in His Humour)

#*:Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.

#*1815 , (Walter Scott), (The Lord of the Isles)

#*:Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death .

#The people who live in the same house; a household.

#*(Bible), (w) x.2:

#*:one that feared God with all his house

#A dynasty, a familial descendance; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.

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#(lb) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.

#*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p.313:

#*:Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.

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#(lb) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.

#Lotto; bingo.

#(senseid) House music.

# An aggregate of characteristics of a house.

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# (lb) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.

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Noun

(pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses)

(label) A factitious disease of the lungs, allegedly caused by inhaling microscopic silicate particles originating from eruption of a volcano.

* {{quote-journal

, year = 1980 , month = March , title = Black Lung , first = Lorin E. , last = Kerr , journal = Journal of Public Health Policy , volume = 1 , issue = 1 , page = 50 , jstor = 3342357 , passage = Call it miner's asthma, silicosis, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , coal workers' pneumoconiosis, or black lung—they are all dust diseases with the same symptoms. }}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, date = 1998-08-27 , title = Lament for a Lung Disease , author = Smokey , newsgroup = talk.bizarre , id = 6s3r8o$brt$1@camel15.mindspring.com , url = http://groups.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/browse_thread/thread/3db7020dcb5b531e/cbd79ebd7c266219?q=pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , passage = I say that it must be the silica dust
That we breathed through our mouths and our noses
That brought pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis . }}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, date = 2002-12-18T04:19:52 , group = alt.fan.scarecrow , author = Pod , title = Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , id = iHSL9.2091$h43.295898@stones , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.scarecrow/msg/39876843908f9513 , passage = It's either pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , or a bad cough. }}

* {{quote-book

, date = 2011-04-28 , title = Am I the Person My Mother Warned Me About?: A Four-year College Experience ... Only the Good Parts , first = Kurt D. , last = Stradtman , publisher = Xlibris , isbn = 9781462862887 , lccn = 2011906469 , page = 90 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=06v2Q_rL_dAC&pg=PA90&dq=pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis , passage = I still can't watch House M.D.'' and not have my mind wonder Even I can fear of(SIC) having ''Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis after watching it. }}