Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Housel \Hou"sel\, n. [OE. housel, husel, AS. h[=u]sel; akin to
   Icel. h[=u]sl, Goth. hunsl a sacrifice.]
   The eucharist. [Archaic] --Rom. of R. --Tennyson.

Housel \Hou"sel\, v. t. [AS. h[=u]slian.]
   To administer the eucharist to. [Archaic] --Chaucer.