(US) Any of many houses, of a similar or identical plan and design, built on a tract of land.

(informal) A brothel.

someone who house-sits

(intransitive) To live temporarily in someone else's home for the purpose of protecting and tending to it in the owner's or tenant's absence.

All the characteristics, conventions and use of colour and language of a company, institution, website etc that serves to make it distinct from others.

A pub; a tavern.

(now chiefly historical, formal) A brothel; a house of prostitution.

(historical) A place of temporary confinement for debtors, kept by a bailiff, where debtors were sponged of all money they had on themselves, before being transferred to debtor's prison.

Alternative form of sponging-house

A small shed-like structure usually adjacent to a barn, typically used to store grain or feed, or for isolation of unruly or lame farm animals.