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In a hospitable manner.

Hospitality. [Obs.] Spenser.

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.]

Pitiless; cruel. [Obs.]

Unpropitious; unfavorable. [Obs.] "Dreams were impropitious." Sir H. Wotton.

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.

a mean distance of 5.2028 from the sun, the earth's mean distance being taken as unity. Jupiter's beard. (Bot.) (a) A South European herb, with cymes of small red blossoms (Centranthus ruber). (b) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum); -- so called from its massive inflorescence, like the sculptured beard of Jove. Prior…

An abject flatterer or parasite. Theodore Hook.

Limpidity. [Obs.]

Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyes; blearedness.

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

Apit where marl is dug.

A fossil crinoid of the genus Marsupites, resembling a purse in form.