housling
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]See houselling.
Adjective
[edit]housling (not comparable)
- (obsolete) sacramental
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The housling fire did kindle and provide
Noun
[edit]housling (plural houslings)
- (obsolete, Christianity) A communicant.
References
[edit]- “housling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.