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To be called; to be named. [Obs.] There as I was wont to hote Arcite, Now hight I Philostrate, not worth a mite. Chaucer.

A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.

A city hall or townhouse.

A hospital.

of Hote.

Partly one and partly the other; neither acid nor alkaline; neutral. [R.] Smart.

An instrument designed for transmitting pictures by telegraph. Fallows.

A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

Pertaining to or designating arc lamps so constructed that more than one can be used on a single circuit.

A fish resembling the trout. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Garew.

A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.

A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance.

In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.

An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted.

To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation; as, he boards at the hotel. We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house. Spectator.

A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.

A coffeehouse; a restaurant; also, a room in a hotel or restaurant where coffee and liquors are served.

A plant (Agathotes Chirayta) found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.

commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc.

ttendant on travelers, whose business it is to make arrangements for their convenience at hotels and on the way.