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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HOUS'ED, pp. s as z. Put under cover; sheltered.
HOUS'ING, ppr. s as z. Covering; sheltering.
1. Warped; crooked, as a brick.
HOUS'ING, n. Houses in general.
1. A cloth laid over a saddle.
2. A piece of cloth fastened to the hinder part of a saddle,and covering the horse's croup; called also boot-housing.
3. [See Houseline.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

House House, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Housed; p. pr. & vb. n. Housing.] [AS. h?sian.] 1. 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. 2. To drive to a shelter. --Shak. 3. To admit to residence; to harbor. Palladius wished him to house all the Helots. --Sir P. Sidney. 4. To deposit and cover, as in the grave. --Sandys. 5. (Naut.) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe; as, to house the upper spars.

Moby Thesaurus

armored, billeted, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, domiciled, domiciliated, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, paved, quartered, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, stabled, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped