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The homeless idlers of Naples who live by chance work or begging; -- so called from the Hospital of St. Lazarus, which serves as their refuge. [Written also, but improperly, lazaroni.]

r's cubs are born shapeless and subsequently formed by licking. Hudibras. -- To lick the spittle of, to fawn upon. South. -- To lick up, to take all of by licking; to devour; to consume entirely. Shak. Num. xxii. 4.

ad. Full lief me were this counsel for to hide. Chaucer. Death me liefer were than such despite. Spenser.

The Pomeranian or Spitz dog.

aving an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon.

quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital. Jury of matrons (Law), a jury of experienced women called to determine the question of pregnancy when set up in bar of execution, and for other cognate purposes.

In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. A man must needs love maugre his heed. Chaucer. This mauger all the world will I keep safe. Shak.

Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.

ous American cities. The duties of those belonging to the order are, to attend lying-in hospitals, to superintend the education of girls, and protect decent women out of employment, to visit prisoners and the sick, and to attend persons condemned to death. -- To be at the mercy of, to be wholly in the power of.…

Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11.

Notwithstanding; in opposition to, or in spite of, what has been stated, or is to be stated or admitted.

Of or pertaining to a hospital; as, nosocomial atmosphere. Dunglison.

Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of. We gentil women bee Loth to displease any wight, Notwithstanding our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had d…

uminaries Officious. Milton. They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable. Burke.

Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity.

A hospital for orphans. [R.] A. Chalmers.

en, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.

A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.

g, or done, in the open air; being or done outside of certain buildings, as poorhouses, hospitals, etc.; as, outdoor exercise; outdoor relief; outdoor patients.