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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Hôr'ta-tive, a. p. 639Giving exhortation; advisory.Hôr'ta-tive, n. p. 639A precept given to incite or encourage; exhortation. For soldiers, I find the general, commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children. Bacon.Hôr'ta-to-ry, a. p. 639Giving exhortation or advice; encouraging; inciting; as, a hortatory speech.Hor-tēn’sial, a. p. 639Fit for a garden. [Obs.] Evelyn.Hôr'ti-cūl'tor, n. p. 639One who cultivates a garden.Hôr'ti-cūlt'ūr-al, a. p. 639Pertaining to the culture of gardens.Hôr'ti-cŭlt/ūre, n. p. 639The cultivation of a garden; the art of cultivating gardens.Hôr'ti-cūlt'ūr-ist, n. p. 639One who practices the art of cultivating gardens.Hôrt'ū-lan, a. p. 639Belonging to a garden; as, a hortulan calendar. Evelyn.Hôr'tus Sī'e-cus p. 639A collection of specimens of plants, carefully dried and preserved; an herbarium.Hôrt'yārd, n. p. 639An orchard. See ORCHARD.Ho-sā'nā, n. p. 639An exclamation of praise to God, or an invocation of blessings.Hōse, n. p. 639Covering for the legs; close-fitting trowsers or breeches, as formerly worn, reaching to the knee. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrank shanks. Shak. 2. Covering for the…Hō'sier, n. p. 640One who deals in hose, or stockings and socks, &c., or in goods knit or woven like hose.Hō'sier-y, n. p. 640The business of a hosier. 2. Stockings in general; a supply or assortment of stockings and socks.Hŏs′pĭce, n. p. 640A place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as among the Alps, kept by monks, who also occupy it as a convent.Hōs'pi-ta-ble, a. p. 640Receiving and entertaining strangers with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; disposed to treat guests with generous kindness; as, a hospitable man. 2. Proceeding from or…Hŏs'pi-ta-bly, adv. p. 640In a hospitable manner; with generous and liberal entertainment.Hōs'pi-tage, n. p. 640Hospitality. [Obs.] Spenser.Hōs'pi-tal, n. p. 640A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn. [Obs.] Spenser. 2. A building in which the sick or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution founded for the reception and cure…Hŏs'pi-tal, a. p. 640Hospitable. [Obs.] Howell.Hŏs'pi-tal-er, n. p. 640One residing in a hospital for the purpose of receiving the poor and strangers. 2. One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem, in A. D. 1042, for pilgrims. They were called Knights…Hōs'pi-tāl'i-ty, n. p. 640The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. Hospitality I have found as universal as the…Hōs'pi-tāte, v. i. p. 640To be the recipient of hospitality; to reside or lodge under the roof of another. [Obs.] Grew.Hŏs'pi-tāte, v. t. p. 640To receive with hospitality; to lodge. [Obs.] Cockram.Hos-pi'ti-um', n. p. 640A monastery where entertainment is also provided for travelers; a hospice. 2. (Law.) An inn; a hotel.Hōs'po-dār', n. p. 640A title of a prince in Moldavia and Wallachia; also applied to the governor appointed by the Turkish government over these provinces. Brande.Hōst, n. p. 640One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord. Homer never entertained either guests or…Hōst, n. p. 640An army; a number of men embodied for war. “A host so great as covered all the field.” Dryden. 2. Any great number, or multitude. “The numbers of our host.” Shak.Hōst, n. p. 640(Rom. Cath. Church.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in mass is offered as a sacrifice.Hōst, v. t. p. 640To give entertainment to. [Obs.] Spenser.Hōst, v. i. p. 640To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] Shak.Hōs'tāge, n. p. 640A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, and on the performance of which the person is to be released. He that hath a wife…Hōs'tel, n. p. 640[O. Fr. hostel, os-Hŏs'tel-ry p. 640F. hostellerie, Pr. hostal, ostal, ostalaria, Sp. hostal, It. ostale, ospitale, ostello, L. Lat. hospitale, hospitalis, from Lat. hospitalis, hospitalia. See HOSPITAL, and cf. HOTEL. 1. An inn.…Hōs'tel-er, n. p. 640The keeper of a hostel or inn. 2. A student in a hostel, or small unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [Obs.] Whence we infer them to be no collegates, but hostlers; not in that sense in which…Hōst'ess, n. p. 640A female host; a woman who receives and hospitably entertains guests at her house. 2. A female who receives and entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.Hōst'ess-shĭp, n. p. 640The character or business of a hostess. Shak.Hŏs'tie, n. p. 640The consecrated wafer; the host. [Obs.] Burnet.Hŏs'tile, a. p. 640Belonging to an enemy; appropriate to an enemy; showing ill-will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or a hostile people; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile…Hōs'tile-ly, adv. p. 640In a hostile manner.Hos-tĭl'i-ty, n. p. 640The state of being hostile; public or private enmity; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward. 2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the…Hŏs'til-ize, v. t. p. 640To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy. [Obs.]Hōst'ing, n. p. 640An encounter; a battle. Milton. 2. A muster or review. Spenser.Hŏs'tler, n. p. 640The person who has the care of horses at an inn;—so called because the innkeeper formerly attended to this duty in person. 2. Any one who takes care of horses; a stable-boy; a groom.Hōst'less, a. p. 640Inhospitable. [Obs.] “A hostless house.” Spenser.Hōst'ry, n. p. 640A lodging-house; a hostel; an inn. Howell. 2. A stable for horses. Dryden.Hŏt, a. p. 640Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great or powerful degree; very warm;—opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove or fire; a hot cloth; hot liquors.…Hŏt or Hōte or Hō'ten, p. p. p. 640Called; named; styled. [Obs.] See HIGHT.Hŏt'-bĕd, n. p. 640(Gardening.) A bed of earth heated by fermenting substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotic plants. 2. A place which favors rapid growth or…Hŏt'blăst, n. p. 640(Iron Works.) A stream of heated air thrown into a furnace by means of a blowing-machine.Hŏt'-blōōd'ed, a. p. 640Having hot blood, or having an excitable disposition; high-spirited; irritable.Hŏt'-brāined, a. p. 640Ardent in temper; violent; rash; precipitate; as, hot-brained youth. Dryden.Hŏtch'pŏt or Hŏtch'pŏtch, n. p. 640A mingled mass; a confused mixture of ingredients; a hodgepodge. A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes is unpleasant to the taste. Bacon. 2. (Law.) A blending of property for equality of division.…Hŏt'-cŏck'les, n. p. 640A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him, or his hand placed behind him.Ho-tēl', n. p. 640A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; a hostel or hostelry; an inn or public house; especially, one of some style or pretensions. 2. A palace or dwelling of a person of rank or wealth.…Hôtel-de-ville, n. p. 640City hall or town house.Hôtel-Dieu, n. p. 640A hospital.Hŏt'-flūe, n. p. 640An apartment heated by stoves or steam-pipes, in which padded and printed calicoes are dried. Ure.Hŏt'-hĕad'ed, a. p. 640Of ardent passions; vehement; violent; rash; impetuous. Arbuthnot.