Dwell"ing, n.
Habitation; place or house in which a person lives; abode; domicile.
Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons.
Jer. xlix. 33.
God will deign
To visit oft the dwellings of just men.
Milton.
Philip's dwelling fronted on the street.
Tennyson.
Dwelling house, a house intended to be occupied as a residence, in distinction from a store, office, or other building. -- Dwelling place, place of residence.
© Webster 1913.