A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a
piece.

An audience; an assembly of hearers, as at a lecture, a
theater, etc.; as, a thin or a full house.

One of the estates of a kingdom or other government
assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in a
legislative capacity; as, the House of Lords; the House of Commons; the
House of Representatives; also, a quorum of such a body. See Congress,
and Parliament.

A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles
intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by
astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting
horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect
to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon,
called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in
the direction of the earth’s revolution, the stars and planets passing
through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours.

A firm, or commercial establishment.

A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of
persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an
illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the
house of Israel.

Household affairs; domestic concerns; particularly in the
phrase to keep house. See below.

A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for
animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the
habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion.

Those who dwell in the same house; a household.

A public house; an inn; a hotel.