HOUSING

noun a niche for a statue.

2. housing ·noun an appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.

3. housing ·noun a houseline. ·see houseline.

4. housing ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of house.

5. housing ·noun that which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.

6. housing ·noun a frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, ·etc.

7. housing ·noun a covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.

8. housing ·noun that portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.

9. housing ·noun the act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.

10. housing ·noun the space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.

11. housing ·noun a cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.