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A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.

use or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or dwelling. So spake the enemy of mankind, inclos'd In serpent, inmate bad. Milton.

A patient who receives lodging and food, as well as treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary; -- distinguished from outpatient.

Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.

set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place. She installed her guest hospitably by the fireside. Sir W. Scott.

Instantly. [Poetic] Instant he flew with hospitable haste. Pope.

To apply with energy. Let him intend his mind, without respite, without rest, in one direction. Emerson.

re or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven. Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven. Milton.

Malignity; spitefulness; virulency. The rancor of pamphlets, the inveteracy of epigrams, an the mortification of lampoons. Guardian.

Malignant; virulent; spiteful. H. Brooke.

To radiate, shed, or diffuse. A splendid fairradiating hospitality. H. James.

A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack.

resembling it, generated in jails and other places crowded with people; -- called also hospital fever, and ship fever. -- Jail liberties, or Jail limits, a space or district around a jail within which an imprisoned debtor was, on certain conditions, allowed to go at large. Abbott. -- Jail lock, a peculiar form of pa…

loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard. That he should jeopardize his willful head Only for spite at me. H. Taylor.

Chevalier. -- Knight of Malta, Knight of Rhodes, Knight of St. John of Jerusalem. See Hospitaler. -- Knight of the post, one who gained his living by giving false evidence on trials, or false bail; hence, a sharper in general. Nares. "A knight of the post, . . . quoth he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear…

d passed through a hole above it in the door. To find the latchstring out, to meet with hospitality; to be welcome. (Intrusion is prevented by drawing in the latchstring.) [Colloq. U.S.]

A privy, or water-closet, esp. in a camp, hospital, etc.

r serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at. -- To laugh out, to laugh in spite of some restraining influence; to laugh aloud. -- To laugh out of the other corner (or side) of the mouth, to weep or cry; to feel regret, vexation, or disappointment after hilarity or exaltation. [Slang]

er. Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser. Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

A public building, hospital, or pesthouse for the reception of diseased persons, particularly those affected with contagious diseases.