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The keeper of a hostel or inn.

An inn; a lodging house. [Archaic] Chaucer. "Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson. Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow.

A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house. Shak.

The character, personality, or office of a hostess. Shak.

The consecrated wafer; the host. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.

In a hostile manner.

State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward.

To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy. [Obs.] A. Seward.

An encounter; a battle. "Fierce hosting." Milton.

An innkeeper. [Obs.] See Hosteler.

Inhospitable. [Obs.] "A hostless house." Spenser.

A hostelry; an inn or lodging house. [Obs.] Marlowe.

of Hote. [Obs.] Spenser.

See under Blast.

See Semi-diesel, below.

Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.

Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth. Dryden.

A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.

Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement. Macaulay.