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A small piece of flesh; a slice. [Obs.] The rest in giggots cut, they spit. Chapman.

To grind or strike the teeth together. There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame. Milton.

tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite. Tennyson.

rand master. (a) The head of one of the military orders of knighthood, as the Templars, Hospitallers, etc. (b) The head of the order of Freemasons or of Good Templars, etc. -- Grand paunch, a glutton or gourmand. [Obs.] Holland. -- Grand pensionary. See under Pensionary. -- Grand piano (Mus.), a large piano, usually…

To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] Sylvester.

Hospitable. [Obs.]

Hastily; without delay or respite.

The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

Like a home or a home circle. Quiet, cheerful, homish hospital life. E. E. Hale.

-- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly uniform temperature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.

op froth fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines. -- Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (O.Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (O. vulgaris). -- Hop moth (Zoöl.), a moth (Hypena humuli…

hawk fly, robber fly. -- To stir up a hornet's nest, to provoke the attack of a swarm of spiteful enemies or spirited critics. [Colloq.]

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

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

A hospital.

One who exercises hospitality, or has plentiful and hospitable household. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Hospitality; a liberal and hospitable table; a supply of provisions. [Obs.] Tell me, softly and hastly, what's in the pantry Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe. Sir W. Scott.

In whetever manner, way, or degree. However yet they me despise and spite. Spenser. Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault. Shak.

Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The ill-natured task refuse." Addison.

ngth, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.