Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HOS'TEL, or HOS'TEL-ER, n. [See HOTEL.]

HOS'TEL-RY, n.

An inn. Chaucer.

HOST'ESS, n.

1. A female host; a woman who entertains guests at her house. Dryden.
2. A woman who keeps an inn. Temple.

HOST'ESS-SHIP, n.

The character or business of a hostess. Shak.

HOS'TILE, a. [L. hostilis, from hostis, an enemy, that is, a foreigner.]

1. Belonging to a public enemy; designating enmity, particularly public enmity, or a state of war; inimical; as, a hostile band or army; a hostile force; hostile intentions.
2. Possessed by a public enemy; as, a hostile country. Kent.
3. Adverse; opposite; unfriendly. [But the word is not properly applied to private enmity, or mere unfriendliness.]

HOS'TILE-LY, adv.

In a hostile manner.

HOS-TIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. hostilité; L. 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 secret enmities broke out in hostilities. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward. We have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury.
2. Private enmity; a sense less proper.

HOS'TIL-IZE, v.t.

To make an enemy. [Little used.]

HOST'ING, n. [from host, an army.]

1. An encounter; a battle. [Little used.] Milton.
2. A muster or review. [Obs.] Spenser.

HOS'TLER, n. [hos'ler; from Fr. hôtelier, an innkeeper. See Hotel.]

The person who has the care of horses at an inn.

HOST'LESS, a.

Inhospitable. [Not in use.]

HOST'RY, n.

1. A stable for horses. Dryden.
2. A lodging house. Howell.

HOT, a. [Sax. hat; G. heiss; D. heet; Sw. het; Dan. heed. See Heat.]

1. 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 exasperated; vehement. Achilles is impatient, hot, and revengeful. Dryden.
3. Violent; furious; as, a hot engagement or assault. Dryden.
4. Eager; animated; brisk; keen; as, a hot pursuit, or a person hot in a pursuit.
5. Lustful; lewd. Shak.
6. Acrid; biting; stimulating; pungent; as, hot as mustard or pepper.

HOT, or HOTE, pp. [or HO'TEN.]

Called; named. [Obs.] Gower.

HOT'BED, n.

In gardening, a bed of earth and horsedung or tanner's bark, covered with glass to defend it from the cold air, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotic plants of warm climates, which will not thrive in cool or temperate air. Encyc.

HOT'BLOOD-ED, a.

Having hot-blood; high spirited; irritable.

HOT'BRAIN-ED, a.

Ardent in temper; violent; rash; precipitate; as, hotbrained youth. Dryden.

HOTCH'POT, n. [Fr. hochepot, from hocher, to shake, and probably pot, a pot or dish.]

1. Properly, a mingled mass; a mixture of ingredients. Bacon. Camden.
2. In law, a mixing of lands. Thus lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter, shall, after the death of the ancestor, be blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then be divided in equal portions to all the daughters. Blackstone.

HOT'COCK-LES, n. [plur. Qu. Fr. hautes coquilles, high shells.]

A play in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him, or his hand placed behind him. Gay.

HO-TEL', n. [Fr. hôtel, for hostel, a palace or dwelling house of a prince or lord.]

1. A palace.
2. An inn; a house for entertaining strangers or travelers. It was formerly a house for genteel strangers or lodgers, but the name is now given to any inn.

HOTEL-DIEU, n. [Hotel Dieu; Fr.]

A hospital.

HOT-FLUE', n.

An apartment heated by stoves or steampipes, in which padded and printed calicoes are dried. Ure.

HOT'HEAD-ED, a.

Of ardent passions; vehement; violent; rash. Arbuthnot.

HOT'HOUSE, n.

1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
2. A bagnio, or place to sweat and cup in. Shak.
3. A brothel. B. Jonson.

HOT'LY, adv. [from hot.]

1. With heat.
2. Ardently; vehemently; violently; as, a stag hotly pursued.
3. Lustfully. Dryden.