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n. A plot of land as the site for a house; later, a residential building taken together with its outbuildings and assigned land.

n. A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.

n. In law: A dwellinghouse.

n. A dwelling-house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, including garden and orchard, appropriated to the use of the household; a manor-house and its appendages.

n. (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household

"Glendinning is supposed to have inhabited, the head of the Allen, about five miles above its junction with the Tweed, shows three ruins of Border houses, belonging to different proprietors, and each, from the desire of mutual support so natural to troublesome times, situated at the extremity of the property of which it is the principal messuage."

abode    domicile    home    dwelling    habitation   

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