Crossword clues for housed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
House \House\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Housed; p. pr. & vb. n. Housing.] [AS. h?sian.]
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To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.
At length have housed me in a humble shed.
--Young.House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse.
--Evelyn. To drive to a shelter.
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To admit to residence; to harbor.
Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.
--Sir P. Sidney. To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
--Sandys.(Naut.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: house)
Usage examples of "housed".
Her great propellers had been drawn and housed during our descent of the shaft and in their place had been run out the smaller but more powerful water propellers.
As I stood in the shadows at the far corner of the first square which housed members of the horde, I saw warriors emerging from several of the buildings.
The corral was enlarged, for the flock of musmons and goats had been increased by a number of young ones, who had to be housed and fed.
All was stowed away, and happily there was no want of room in Granite House, in which they might have housed all the treasures of the island.
I knew, too, that I had been snatched from my age while another used my body in that age, and that a few of the other strange forms housed similarly captured minds.
Jermyn House on the afternoon of August 3, 1913, being conveyed immediately to the large chamber which housed the collection of African specimens as arranged by Sir Robert and Arthur.
As the ages passed, first one, then another of the four great turrets were left to ruin, until at last but a single tower housed the sadly reduced descendants of the once mighty lords of the estate.
I saw mankind housed in splendid shelters, gloriously clothed, and as yet I had found them engaged in no toil.
But that good chance was denied to the young couple, doubtless in order that this story might be written, in which numbers of their wonderful adventures are narrated-- adventures which could never have occurred to them if they had been housed and sheltered under the comfortable uninteresting forgiveness of Miss Crawley.
It is evident, therefore, that they must be housed in a very small number of buildings, and such indeed is the case.
Male students were housed within Arach-Tinilith only during their last six months of study.
He still found great enjoyment in many of the things Masoj showed him, particularly the enchanted items housed in the tower of Sorcere.
At the back end of the mushroom grove, the southern wall of the cavern that housed Menzoberranzan, was a small, heavily guarded cave.