Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Housel

Housel , noun

[Old English housel, husel, Anglo-Saxon hūsel; akin to Icelandic hūsl, Gothic hunsl a sacrifice.]

The eucharist. [Archaic] — Rom. of R

Housel , transitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon hūslian.]

To administer the eucharist to. [Archaic] — Chaucer