housen

From Middle English housen, husen.

housen

1. (now chiefly dialectal) plural of house
   • 1775, Simeon Lyman of Sharon, journal, Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, Volume 7, page 117:

     In the forenoon it rained, and in the afternoon I looked round the housen to see the damage they did the town.

   • 1874, "Eight per Cent", The Headington Magazine, volume 6, page 7:

     'If the housen weren't good housen I'd have nothing to say to them,' said Ingram

   • 1880, James Spilling, Molly Miggs's trip to the seaside, page 14:

     I weant on for a gudish way till at last I loast sight o' the great square building behind the housen.

   • 1917, Edward Harry William Meyerstein, ‎Wilfrid Blair, Black and White Magic - Page 60:

     Hide you in your housen! Hang above your Portals The shielding quicken bough!

   • 1929, Mary Webb, Precious Bane:

     “Ho, rooks!” shouted Gideon. “Father's dead, and I be maister, and I've come to say as you shall keep your housen in peace, and I'll keep ye safe from all but my own gun, and you're kindly welcome to bide."

• unshoe

From Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną; equivalent to hous +‎ -en (“infinitival ending”).

• howsen, howsyn, huse

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuːzən/

housen

1. To shelter, give accomodation
2. To look for shelter
3. To house, store
4. To build, construct (especially referring to houses)

• English: (to) house

• “hǒusen (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-06.

From hous +‎ -en (“plural ending”).

• husen, howsen

housen

1. plural of hous

housen

1. definite singular of house