house-cricket

(hous’krik’et), n. The common cricket, Acheta domestic a. See cut under cricket. house-dog (hous’dog),. A dog kept to guard a house. house-dovet (hous’duy),. One who stays at home. Then the home-tarriers and house-doves that kept Rome still began to repent them that it was not their hap to go with him [Coriolanus]. North, tr. of Plutarch (ed. Skeat), p. 14. I... was not such a house-dove... but that I had visited some houses in London, Greene, Thieves Falling Out (Harl, Misc., VIII. 401).