housling

English

Etymology

See houselling.

Adjective

housling (not comparable)

1. (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

housling (plural houslings)

1. (obsolete, Christianity) A communicant.

References

• “housling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Holguins