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HOSEN n.
See Hose. [Archaic]
HOSIER n.
One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.
HOSIERY n. 2 definitions
The business of a hosier.
HOSPICE n.
ge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.
HOSPITABLE a. 2 definitions
Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak.
HOSPITABLENESS n.
The quality of being hospitable; hospitality. Barrow.
HOSPITABLY adv.
In a hospitable manner.
HOSPITAGE n.
Hospitality. [Obs.] Spenser.
HOSPITAL n. 3 definitions
, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity in whole or in 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…
HOSPITALER n. 2 definitions
One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
HOSPITALISM n.
A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
HOSPITALITY n.
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.
HOSPITALIZE v.
To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital.
HOSPITATE v. 2 definitions
To receive hospitality; to be a guest. [Obs.] Grew.
HOSPITIUM n. 2 definitions
An inn; a lodging; a hospice. [Obs.]
HOSPODAR n.
A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Roumania.
HOST n. 6 definitions
An army; a number of men gathered for war. A host so great as covered all the field. Dryden.
HOST PLANT n.
A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops.
HOSTAGE n.
stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. Your hostages I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before we fight. Shak. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. Bacon.
HOSTEL n. 2 definitions
An inn. [Archaic] Poe. So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. Tennyson.
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