housen

From Middle English housen, husen, equivalent to house +‎ -en.

housen

1. (archaic, 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”, in 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

Inherited from Old English hūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *hūsōn, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną; equivalent to hous +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• house, howse, howsen, howsyn, huse

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuːzən/

housen (third-person singular simple present houseth, present participle housende, housynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle housed)

1. To accommodate or lodge; to have as a guest:

   Synonym: herberwen

   1. To provide shelter or refuge.
   2. To give out accommodations (to someone).
2. To shelter or reside (in a house or building)

   Synonym: herberwen

3. To house, store; to place in storage.

   Synonym: herberwen

4. To build, construct (houses or buildings).
5. To set up or arrange accommodation (in a building)

• English: house
• Scots: house, hoose

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

From hous +‎ -en (“plural suffix”).

• husen, howsen

housen

1. plural of hous

housen

1. definite singular of house