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A hospital. [Obs.] Shak.

A hospital. [Obs.]

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.

t 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.

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

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

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

In the United States navy, a sick-bay nurse; -- now officially designated as hospital apprentice.

A hospital for lunatics; -- corrupted into bedlam.

A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse.

rical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.

A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.

en 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 suitable…

the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals. -- The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War.

To treat with hospitality; to pet. [Ireland]

Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.