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

A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence. [R.]

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

me manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.

The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." B. Jonson.

l shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere. Newcomb.

in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.

re me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. Hawthotne.

An aquatic plant (Hottonia palustris), having finely divided leaves.

A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.

Hot; glowing; boiling; burning; as, a fervent summer. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Pet. iii. 10.

Growing hot.

Very hot; burning; boiling. The mounted sun Shot down direct his fervid rays. Milton.

Hot; sultry. "The feverish north." Dryden.

heated by fire, or as if by fire; burning hot; parched; feverish. Pope. The sword which is made fiery. Hooker. Fiery cross, a cross constructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms. Sir W. Scott.

er. (a) A juggler who pretends to eat fire. (b) A quarrelsome person who seeks affrays; a hotspur. [Colloq.] -- Fire engine, a portable forcing pump, usually on wheels, for throwing water to extinguish fire. -- Fire escape, a contrivance for facilitating escape from burning buildings. -- Fire gilding (Fine Arts), a m…

A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

Actually in preparation, execution, or performance; carried on hotly; raging. A war the most powerful of the native tribes was flagrant. Palfrey.

biles, consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated.

g the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.