Definition of housing

• p. pr. & vb. n. - of House
• n. - The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.
• n. - That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively.
• n. - The space taken out of one solid, to admit the insertion of part of another, as the end of one timber in the side of another.
• n. - A niche for a statue.
• n. - A frame or support for holding something in place, as journal boxes, etc.
• n. - That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
• n. - A covering or protection, as an awning over the deck of a ship when laid up.
• n. - A houseline. See Houseline.
• n. - A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
• n. - An appendage to the hames or collar of a harness.