Hos"tel*er (?), n. [See Hostel, and cf. Hostler.] 1. The keeper of a
hostel or inn.
2. A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or
Cambridge. [Obs.] Fuller.
Hos"tel*ry (?), n. [OE. hostelrie, hostelrye, ostelrie, OF. hostelerie,
fr. hostel. See Hostel.] An inn; a lodging house. [Archaic] Chaucer.
"Homely brought up in a rude hostelry." B. Jonson.
Come with me to the hostelry.
Longfellow.
Host"ess (?), n. [OE. hostesse, ostesse. See Host a landlord.] 1. A
female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
Shak.
2. A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.
Shak.
Host"ess-ship, n. The character, personality, or office of a hostess.
Shak.
Hos"tie (?), n. [F. See 1st Host.] The consecrated wafer; the host.
[Obs.] Bp. Burnet.
Hos"tile (?), a. [L. hostilis, from hostis enemy: cf. F. hostile. See
Host an army.] Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the
disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire
to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical;
unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country;
hostile to a sudden change.
Syn. -- Warlike; inimical; unfriendly; antagonistic; opposed; adverse;
opposite; contrary; repugnant.
Hos"tile, n. An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the
whites; -- commonly in the plural. [Colloq.] P. H. Sheridan.
Hos"tile*ly, adv. In a hostile manner.
Hos*til"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Hostilities (#). [L. hostilitas: cf. F.
hostilitÈ.] 1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy;
unfriendliness; animosity.
Hostility being thus suspended with France.
Hayward.
2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural,
acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy.
We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and have
carried on even our hostilities with humanity.
Atterbury.
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where
he might have a friend.
Crabb.
Syn. -- Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression;
contention; warfare.
Hos"til*ize (?), v. t. To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.
[Obs.] A. Seward.
Host"ing (?), n. [From Host an army.] [Obs.] 1. An encounter; a battle.
"Fierce hosting." Milton.