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ent 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.

The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall.

ften celebrated by a particular church service, and also by special gifts, greetings, and hospitality. Christmas box. (a) A box in which presents are deposited at Christmas. (b) A present or small gratuity given to young people and servants at Christmas; a Christmas gift. -- Christmas carol, a carol sung at, or suitab…

To treat with hospitality; to pet. [Ireland]

To treat with hospitality; to entertain. [Obs.] Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise. Spenser.

That which entertains, or with which one is entertained; as: (a) Hospitality; hospitable provision for the wants of a guest; especially, provision for the table; a hospitable repast; a feast; a formal or elegant meal. (b) That which engages the attention agreeably, amuses or diverts, whether in private, as by conversat…

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

r guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak.

The quality of being hospitable; hospitality. Barrow.

Hospitality. [Obs.] Spenser.

To receive hospitality; to be a guest. [Obs.] Grew.

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.

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.

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

and 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.]

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

; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Milton.

Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.

An officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to those who came from a friendly city or state.