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Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak.

One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.

The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. Given to hospitality. Rom. xii. 13. And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality. Shak.

A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.

nt or quiet; make no noise. Hush, idle words, and thoughts of ill. Keble. But all these strangers' presence every one did hush. Spenser.

ies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger. Dr. H. More.

Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people. Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door Cowper.

rmal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.

sentation or making known of one person to another by name; as, the introduction of one stranger to another.

f in, or enters without right, or without leave or welcome; a trespasser. They were all strangers and intruders. Locke.

The entry of a stranger, after a particular estate or freehold is determined, before the person who holds in remainder or reversion has taken possession.

To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. 2 Cor. v. 21. Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. Milton.…

om, or unable to find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.

yphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.

a citizen. Mitford. The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

An orangered coloring substance resembling alizarin, found in the root of an East Indian species of madder (Rubia munjista).

mit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.

bor unto him that fell among the thieves Luke x. 36. The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor. South.

One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.

To treat with attention and civility; as, to notice strangers.