Webster's Dictionary 1828

1675

HOSIER

HO'SIER, noun ho'zhur. One who deals in stockings and socks, etc.

1676

HOSIERY

HO'SIERY, noun ho'zhury. Stockings in general; socks.

1677

HOSPITABLE

HOS'PITABLE, adjective [Latin hospitalis, from hospes, a guest.]1. Receiving and entertaining strangers, with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; disposed...

1678

HOSPITABLY

HOS'PITABLY, adverb With kindness to strangers or guests; with generous and liberal entertainment.

1679

HOSPITAGE

HOS'PITAGE, noun Hospitality.

1680

HOSPITAL

HOS'PITAL, noun [Latin hospitalis, supra.]1. A building appropriated for the reception of sick, infirm and helpless paupers, who are supported and nursed by charity; also, a hou...

1681

HOSPITALITY

HOSPITAL'ITY, noun [Latin hospitalitas.] The act or practice of receiving and entertaining strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality.A bishop--mus...

1682

HOSPITALLER

HOS'PITALLER, noun [from hospital.] Properly, one residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers. The hospitallers were an order of knights who built...

1683

HOSPITATE

HOS'PITATE, verb intransitive [Latin hospitor.] To reside or lodge under the roof of another. [Not used.]HOS'PITATE, verb transitive To lodge a person. [Not used.]

1684

HOST

HOST, noun [Latin hostis, a stranger, an enemy, probably of the same family. See Hospitable.]1. One who entertains another at his own house, without reward.Homer never entertain...

1685

HOSTAGE

HOS'TAGE, noun A person delivered to an enemy or hostile power, as a pledge to secure the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, and on the perfo...

1686

HOSTEL

HOSTEL, HOSTELLER. [See Hotel.]

1687

HOSTELLER

HOSTEL, HOSTELLER [See Hotel.]

1688

HOSTESS

HOSTESS, noun A female host; a woman who entertains guests at her house.1. A woman who keeps an inn.

1689

HOSTESS-SHIP

HOSTESS-SHIP, noun The character or business of a hostess.

1690

HOSTILE

HOS'TILE, adjective [Latin hostilis, from hostis, an enemy, that is, a foreigner.]1. Belonging to a public enemy; designating enmity, particularly public enmity, or a state of w...

1691

HOSTILELY

HOS'TILELY, adverb In a hostile manner.

1692

HOSTILITY

HOSTIL'ITY, noun [Latin hostilitas, from hostis, an enemy.]1. The state of war between nations or states; the actions of an open enemy; aggression; attacks of an enemy. These se...

1693

HOSTILIZE

HOS'TILIZE, verb transitive To make an enemy. [Little used.]

1694

HOSTING

HOSTING, noun [from host, an army.]An encounter; a battle. [Little used.]1. A muster or review.

1695

HOSTLER

HOS'TLER, noun hos'ler. The person who has the care of horses at an inn.

1696

HOSTLESS

HOSTLESS, adjective Inhospitable. [Not in use.]

1697

HOSTRY

HOSTRY, adjective A stable for horses.1. A lodging house.

1698

HOT

HOT, adjective1. Having sensible heat; opposed to cold; as a hot stove or fire; a hot cloth; hot liquors. hot expresses more than warm.2. Ardent in temper; easily excited or exa...

1699

HOTBED

HOT'BED, noun In gardening, a bed of earth and horsedung or tanner's bark, covered with glass to defend it form the cold air, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishin...

1700

HOTBRAINED

HOT'BRAINED, adjective Ardent in temper; violent; rash; precipitate; as hotbrained youth.

1701

HOTCH-POTCH

HOTCH-POTCH, noun A mixed mass; a medley of ingredients. [Vulgar.] [See Hotchpot.]