houss

English

Etymology

French housse.

Noun

houss (plural housses)

  1. (obsolete) A saddlecloth; a housing.
    • John Dryden
      And where man ended, the continued vest,
      Spread on his back, the houss and trappings of a beast.
  2. Obsolete form of house.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for houss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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