Hŏt'-house, n.
n. 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants, and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
Sense 2. A bagno, or place to sweat in. [Obs.] Shak.
Sense 3. A brothel. [Obs.] B. Jonson.