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A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.

and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. [U. S.]

egular charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at European hotels lights are extras. [Colloq.]

A room specially fitted for broiling food, esp. one in a restaurant, hotel, or clubhouse, arranged for prompt service.

sing. pres. of Hote to be called. Cf. Hatte. [Obs.] "That one hat abstinence." Piers Plowman.

pres. & imp. sing. & pl. of Hote, to be called. See Hote. [Obs.] Chaucer. A full perilous place, purgatory it hatte. Piers Plowman.

Variant of Hote. [Obs.] But one avow to greate God I hete. Chaucer.

of Hote. [Obs.] Spenser.

A public house; an inn; a hotel.

for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.

tarts, etc. Pastry cook, one whose occupation is to make pastry; as, the pastry cook of a hotel.

To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.

One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

Any one of several species of spotted seals, especially Ogmorhinus leptonyx, and Leptonychotes Weddelli, of the Antarctic Ocean. The North Pacific sea leopard is the harbor seal.

A young hog. Same as Shote.

The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business. [U. S.]

A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge.…

here travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small quantities.

ic transmission of a definite number of different signals or calls, as in connection with hotel annunciators.