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part; a tent, building, or other place where the sick or wounded of an army cared for. Hospital ship, a vessel fitted up for a floating hospital. -- Hospital Sunday, a Sunday set apart for simultaneous contribution in churches to hospitals; as, the London Hospital Sunday.

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

A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.

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.

To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.

To receive hospitality; to be a guest. [Obs.] Grew.

An inn; a lodging; a hospice. [Obs.]

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.

The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall.

An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.

. A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. [Eng.]

utting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. I crave but four day's respite. Shak.

Without respite. Baxter.

One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office. His lordship is his majesty's turnspit. Burke.

Inhospitable.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.