Hostess

A female host; a woman who receives and entertains guests; a catere for travellers; a woman who keeps an inn; a landlady. IMG:content-0624.jpg:[graphic] "He chuck'd the buxom hoste 'neath the chin, and bu 'd her." Fig 1322. KNIGHT-HOSPITALLER. the po e ions of the suppre ed Templars, which were grauted them by the Council of Vienna. In 1321 they defeated the Turks in a great naval battle, and in 1341 took Smyrna. They took Alexandria in 1365, and in 1480 compelled Mohammed II. to retreat from Rhodes, which he had besteged with 100,000 men and 160 ships. In 1484 the po e ions of the di olved orders of the Holy Sepulchre and of St. Lazarus were bestowed upon the H. In 1522 they were compelled to quit Rhodes by Soliman II., who besieged their garrison of 600 knights and 4,000 soldiers with a force of 140,000 men and 400 ve els, and in 1530 they were allowed to setile in Malta D' Urfey. Hoste ship, n . Character or vocation of a hoste . Hos'tile, a. Fr.; Lat. hostilis , from host is , enemy.] Belonging to a public enemy; designating enmity, particularly public antagonism, or a state of war; warlike; inimical; contrary; adverse; unfriendly; repug. nant; as, a hostile army, a hostile nation, hostile intentions or preparations. Hos'tilely, adv . In a hostile or adverse manner. Hostil'ity, n. State or quality of being hostile; state of war between nations or states; public or private enmity or antagonism; animosity; opposition; repug. nance. Act of an open enemy; hostile attack; warlike deed; used generally in the plural. "We have carried on even our hostilities with humanity." Atterbury. Hosting, n. A battle; a conflict; a warlike action. A review; a muster or a embly of troops. Hostler, (os'ler,) n. [O Fr. hostelier ; Fr. hôtelier , from hôtel, a palace, an inn, from Lat. hospes , hospitis , an entertainer of guests.] Originally, an innkeeper who formerly attended to the care of his guests' horses; - in the modern sense, a man employed to take charge of horses at an inn; a stable-man; a helper; a groom. (Sometimes written ostler .)