hostility

[Fr. hostilité, from Lat. hostili tatem, acc us. of host i litas, from hostilis =hostile; Sp. hostilidad; Ital. ostilita.] pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, põt, I. Ord. Lang.: A mingled ma , a mixture. II. Technically : *hōst-ry, *host-rey, s. [A contraction of hos- telry (q. v.).] 1. A hostelry; an inn; a lodging-house. "A chamberlein in a common hostrey ."- Hall : Henry of sulphur to the extent of, say, 0-033 per cent., which VI . (an. 6.) IMG:content-1309.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1310.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Fig .: Trouble, difficulties, worry. Hot - water ordeal : engine are submerged, and from which the warm water is drawn for the supply of the boiler. hot, s . [ Fr.hotte =a basket for the back.] A kind of basket for carrying turf or slate. (HOD.] hot-běd, s . [Eng. hot , and bed .] IMG:content-1311.jpg:[blocks in formation] unlikely to germinate vigorously in the open air. It is le employed now than it was, various other appliances for producing artificial heat being known. hot-brained, a . [English hot , and brained .] Violent, impetuous, hot-headed, rash, fiery. hotch, v . i . [Prob. from Fr. hocher =to shake, to jolt.] To move the body with sudden jerks. hotch-ing, pr . par.ora. [Нотсн.] IMG:content-1312.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1313.jpg:[graphic] very numerous, but the ravages of small-pox, especially in 1713, want, spir- ., have greatly reduced their numbers. The name they give themselves is Quaqua. 2. The lan. guage spoken by the race de- scribed under A. IMG:content-1314.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-1316.png:[blocks in formation] I shall be hounded up and down the world." Otway: Caius Marius , iv. 2. hound-fish, s. [Eng. hound , and fish .] Ichthy.: One of the names for Mustelus, a genus of sharks; common in the waters of this country and Europe. IMG:content-1317.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1318.png:[blocks in formation] Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. III ., ii. 5. The early Egyptians divided the day and night each into twelve hours, a custom adopted by Jews or Greeks probably from the Babylonians. The day is said to have been first divided into hours from 293 B. C., when L. Papirius Cursor erected a sun-dial in the temple of Quirinus at Rome. Pre- viously to the invention of water-clocks, 158 B. C., the time was called at Rome by public criers. In England, the measurement of time was, in early days, uncertain: one expedient was by wax candles, three inches burning an hour, and six wax candles burning twenty-four hours, said to have been in- vented by Alfred, A. D. 886. 2. The point of time marked or indicated by a clock, watch, .; the particular time of the day. "What hour is it?"- Shakesp .: Cymbeline, ii. 2. IMG:content-1319.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Myth. (pl.): Godde es of the seasons or hours of the day. (1) Sidereal hour : Astron.: The twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day. [DAY.] (2) To keep good hours : To be at home in good time at night; not to be abroad late at night. IMG:content-1320.png:[blocks in formation] mons , vol. i. *3. Marking the hours. "Fram Rome he brogte an heste, that me here nome Petre's peni of ech hous , that smoke out of come." Robert of Gloucester , p. 493. 2. Any place of abode. "The bees with smoke, the dove with noisome stench, Are from their hives and houses driven away. Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt . I. , i. 5. IMG:content-1321.png:[blocks in formation] "Now play the men for the good house That loves the people well.' II. Technically : 1. Astrol .: The station of a planet in the heavens; a twelfth part of the heavens as divided by great circles drawn through the north and south poles of the horizon, in the same way as meridians pa through the earth's poles. The heavens, visible and invisible, were thus divided into twelve equal parts, six being above and six below the horizon. These divisions, or houses , were numbered from one to twelve, beginning with that which lay in the last immediately below the horizon. The first house was the house of life; the second, of fortune or riches; the third, of brethren; the fourth, of relations; the fifth, of children; the sixth, of health; the seventh, of marriage; the eighth, of death, or the upper portal; the ninth, of religion; the tenth, of dignities; the eleventh, of benefactors; and the twelfth, of enemies or captivity. 2. Comm.: A commercial establishment or firm. For the difference between house and family , Seo FAMILY. 1. House of call : A house where journeymen of a particular trade meet, especially when out of work, and where those in need of workmen can meet and engage hands. 2. House of Correction: A prison, a penitentiary. 3. House of God: A church, a temple. 4. To bring down the house: To draw forth a universal burst of applause, as in a theater. 5. To keep house: To maintain a separate estab lishment. 6. The house : (1) The House of Representatives. (2) The poorhouse. 7. House to house: Calling at or visiting each house; as, a house - to - house inspection.