house

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A structure serving as a dwelling for one or more persons, especially for a family.
• noun A household or family.
• noun Something, such as a burrow or shell, that serves as a shelter or habitation for a wild animal.
• noun A dwelling for a group of people, such as students or members of a religious community, who live together as a unit.
• noun A building that functions as the primary shelter or location of something.
• noun A facility, such as a theater or restaurant, that provides entertainment or food for the public.
• noun The audience or patrons of such an establishment.
• noun A commercial firm.
• noun A publishing company.
• noun A gambling casino.
• noun Slang A house of prostitution.
• noun A residential college within a university.
• noun A legislative or deliberative assembly.
• noun The hall or chamber in which such an assembly meets.
• noun A quorum of such an assembly.
• noun A family line including ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble family.
• noun One of the 12 parts into which the heavens are divided in astrology.
• noun The sign of the zodiac indicating the seat or station of a planet in the heavens.
• noun House music.
• intransitive verb To provide living quarters for; lodge.
• intransitive verb To shelter, keep, or store in a house or other structure.
• intransitive verb To fit (something) into a socket or mortise.
• intransitive verb Nautical To secure or stow safely.
• intransitive verb To reside; dwell.
• intransitive verb To take shelter.
• idiom (on fire/afire) In an extremely speedy manner.
• idiom (on the house) At the expense of the establishment; free.
• idiom (put/set) To organize one's affairs in a sensible, logical way.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To cover with or as with a housing.
• noun A covering; housing; especially, a covering of textile material, as for a piece of furniture, fitted more or less accurately to the object covered.
• noun A child's coverlet.
• noun In some tunicates, as Appendicularia and Oikopleura, a temporary gelatinous envelop, representing the tunic of other forms. It is formed with great rapidity as a secretion from the surface of the ectoderm and is frequently thrown off and renewed.
• To put or receive into a house; provide with a dwelling or residence; put or keep under a roof; cover; shelter; protect by covering.
• To cause to take shelter.
• To hide.
• Nautical: To arrange in the form of a ridged roof, as an awning, so as to shed rain.
• To remove from exposure; put in a place of deposit or a state of security: as, to house a boat or a sail.
• In carpentry, to fix in a socket, mortice, or other space cut out, as a board or timber fitting into another.
• To take shelter or lodging; take up abode; reside.
• In astrology, to be situated in a house or region of the heavens.
• noun A building designed to be used as a place of residence, or of human occupation for any purpose: as, a dwelling-house; a banking-house; a house of worship; a public house.
• noun Hence An abiding-place; an abode; a place or means of lodgment; a fixed shelter or investment: as, the hermit-crab carries its house on its back.
• noun A building used for some purpose other than human occupation: usually with a descriptive prefix: as, a cow-house; a warehouse; a tool-house.
• noun The persons collectively who dwell together under one roof; a family; a household.
• noun A family regarded as consisting of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from one stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race: as, the house of Hapsburg; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel or of Judah.