A state legislature (of one of the fifty United States), or government generally, or the building that houses it.

An inn or place of call midway on a journey. / A temporary residence for those who have left prison, residential drug rehabilitation, or the like, designed to ease them back into society.

Alternative form of housebreaker

Alternative form of housebreaker

Alternative form of house-proud

A treasury. / A building where valuable things are stored.

(idiomatic) To take care of domestic chores; work as a housekeeper. / To seclude oneself in one's house in order to evade the demands of creditors.

(archaic) Synonym of leprosery: A building used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.

Proud of one's house, its furnishings, or its upkeep.

(historical) A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.