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Definition of Outhouses
1. outhouse [n] - See also: outhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outhouses
Literary usage of Outhouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"It was burglary to break and enter a church with felonious intent,7 or to break
and enter the gate or wall of a walled town with such intent.8 (b) outhouses ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"... the lands upon which they respectively resided, and which the United States
now claims for them. outhouses, fencing, clearing, and planting of trees. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Leases: With Forms and Precedents by Thomas Platt (1847)
"(g), Together with all outhouses, <kc. (h); To HOLD the same, ... Together with
all outhouses, &c. (/>), for the term of years thence next ensuing, ..."
4. The Ancient Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1881)
"His military family, his stable, kennel, chapel, attendants, table, chamber,
wardrobe, outhouses, furniture, journeys.—III. The society of the king. ..."
5. Mushroom culture: its extension and improvement by William Robinson (1870)
"It matters not in the least if the shed be open or ventilated here and there,
especially for autumn crops, as I have seen admirable crops in low outhouses ..."
6. The Practice of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas, in Personal by William Tidd, Francis Joseph Troubat, Asa Israel Fish, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1856)
"... outhouses, yards, gardens, orchards,* arable, meadow, and pasture land,
woodland, underwood, f land covered with water,! furze and (г) Сто. Car. 555. ..."
7. Note-book Kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq., Lawyer, in Boston, Massachusetts by Thomas Lechford, James Hammond Trumbull (1885)
"barber the dwelling house & shopp with outhouses garden & 2 acres & halfe of laud
in Gentry field of the said Walters forever in fee simple for 401 by ..."
8. Essays on the Progress of Nations in Civilization, Productive Industry by Ezra Champion Seaman (1868)
"The value of all the dwelling houses in the United States in 1840— and the
improvements around them, including yards, fences, outhouses and trees, ..."
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