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

A city hall or townhouse.

A hospital.

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.

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.

A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself.

and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. [U. S.]

egular charge or compensation, or for which an additional charge is made; as, at European hotels lights are extras. [Colloq.]

A room specially fitted for broiling food, esp. one in a restaurant, hotel, or clubhouse, arranged for prompt service.

A public house; an inn; a hotel.

for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.

tarts, etc. Pastry cook, one whose occupation is to make pastry; as, the pastry cook of a hotel.

To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station.

One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]

The situation of a shop, store, hotel, etc.; as, a good, bad, or convenient stand for business. [U. S.]