Emily Dickinson Lexicon

house (-s), n. [OE hús < Germanic.] (webplay: abode, assembled, body, bondage, brick, church, concerns, covering, devour, dwelling, earthly, edifice, enact, estates, faithful, God, good, grave, heavens, household, human, laws, living, lords, man, mansion, materials, Moses, order, place, residence, size, soul, station, stone, square, wealth, wood, world, worship).

1. Biological family; ancestors and descendants.
2. Home; dwelling; building; habitation for humanity.
3. Nest; dwelling of a creature.
4. Heaven; place in paradise; abode of the righteous dead.
5. Theater audience; spectators in a playhouse.
6. Tomb; grave; final resting place.
7. Church; temple; tabernacle.
8. Wealth; estate; possessions.
9. Body; residence of the soul.
10. Building for the keeping of plants.
11. Earth; natural paradisiacal state of the earth.
12. Phrase. “Light House”: coastal building that gives light and direction to ships.