Definition of "housel"

housel¹

/ˈhaʊzəl/

noun
1. (archaic) The Eucharist.
  Quotations
  The Holy Houſel ought to be kept vvith great Diligence and not be permitted to be ſtale, but another be alvvays hallovved anevv for Sick Men in about a Seven-night, or Fortnight, ſo as that it may not be muſty at leaſt.
  1720, Elfric [i.e., Ælfric of Abingdon], John Johnson, “A.D. DCCCCLVII. Elfric’s Canons.”, in A Collection of All the Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons, Answers, Or Rescripts, with Other Memorials Concerning the Government, Discipline, and Worship of the Church of England, […], 1st part, London: […] Robert Knaplock […], and Samuel Ballard […]
  She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with mass-priest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men’s oil to his limbs.
  1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]

housel²

/ˈhaʊzəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present housels, present participle houseling or houselling, simple past and past participle houseled or houselled
1. (transitive, archaic) To administer the Eucharist to.
2. (transitive, rare) To prepare for a journey.
  Quotations
  So housel all our hackneys that they may feel Compunction in their feet, and tire at Highgate.
  1750, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher