A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Rumania.

To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.

A genus of robust East Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in the family Hostaceae.

One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hosta.

A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.

An inn.

The keeper of a hostel or inn.

An inn; a lodging house.

A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.

The character, personality, or office of a hostess.

The consecrated wafer; the host.

An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.

the purchase of a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management.

In a hostile manner.

a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration, during which the international rules of war apply.

State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy.

An encounter; a battle.

An innkeeper. [Obs.] See Hosteler.

Inhospitable.

A hostelry; an inn or lodging house.

Having much sensible heat; exciting the feeling of warmth in a great degree; very warm; -- opposed to cold, and exceeding warm in degree; as, a hot stove; hot water or air.

A bun or cake marked with a cross of icing, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday; called also cross bun.

An expression of delight.

Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.

Ardent in temper; violent; rash; impetuous; as, hot-brained youth.

A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as, the rant of a hot-head.

quickly and easily aroused to anger; fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement; as, a hot-headed commander.

Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.

Headstrong.

Brittle when heated, esp. beyond a red heat; as, hot-short iron.

Having a fiery spirit; hot-headed.

to start (a car) by using a wire instead of a key, as when stealing the car; the wire is connected to points in the ignition circuit that bypass the key.

A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge.

A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him.

To command; to enjoin.

A small bamboo (Phyllostachys aurea) of Southeast China having slender culms flexuous when young.

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

A city hall or townhouse.

A hospital.

an owner or manager of a hotel or hotels.

p. p. of Hote.

In haste; foothot.

same as hot-headed.

A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

In a hot or fiery manner; ardently; vehemently; violently; hastily; as, a hotly pursued.

The quality or state of being hot.

To apply heat to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glossy surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.

Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.

a successful, self-confident person who is regarded by others as highly skilled; -- sometimes used ironically in reference to aggressive persons whose opinion of their own talents is considered exaggerated.

highly talented, self-confident and successful.

A rash, hot-headed man.

Violent; impetuous; headstrong.

One of a degraded-- "pastoral", in MW10 --> and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

A term employed to describe one of the varieties of stammering.

A genus of aquatic herbs.

See Howdah.

To cut with a hoe.

The joint in the hind limb of quadrupeds between the leg and shank, or tibia and tarsus, and corresponding to the ankle in man. A piece cut by butchers, esp. in pork, from either the front or hind leg, just above the foot.

An owl. See Howlet.

A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.

To set on the chase; to incite to pursuit; as, to hounda dog at a hare; to hound on pursuers.

A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.

Any small shark of the genus Galeus or Mustelus, of which there are several species, as the smooth houndfish (Galeus canis), of Europe and America; -- called also houndshark, and dogfish.

The act of one who hounds.

See Hoopoe.

The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower.

A nymph of paradise; -- so called by the Muslims.

Every hour; frequently; continually.

Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day.

A fee for keeping goods in a house.

To take shelter or lodging; to abide to dwell; to lodge.

a guest entertained and staying overnight in one's house for one or more nights.

to take care of all household-related business.

proud of one's house or its furnishings or upkeep.

A gathering for the construction of a house by a group of neighbors, usually in a rural community, and sometimes accomplished in a single day; similar to a barn-raising.

omitting no one; proceeding from the door of one house to that of the next; as, house-to-house canvassing.

same as housebroken.

a barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling.

Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.

confined to the home, usually due to illness.

to train a pet to live cleanly in a house, especially by training it to defecate and urinate in designated boxes.

One who is guilty of the crime of housebreaking.

The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To break a house, under Break.

trained to urinate and defecate outside or in a special place, such as a litter box; as, housebroken pets; -- of pet animals.

One whose business is to build houses; a housewright.

A household servant; also, one of the bodyguard of King Canute.

a loose dressing gown for women.

skill in domestic management.

a dog trained to guard a house.

a man in charge of children in an institution.

common fly (Musca domestica) that frequents human habitations and spreads many diseases.

as many as a house will accommodate; as, they entertained a houseful of guests.

Belonging to the house and family; domestic; as, household furniture; household affairs.

The master or head of a family; one who occupies a house with his family.

One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family.

Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.

To administer the eucharist to.

A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (Sempervivum tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old walls and roofs. It is very tenacious of life under drought and heat; -- called also ayegreen.

Destitute of the shelter of a house; shelterless; homeless; as, a houseless wanderer.

The state of being houseless.

A small line of three strands used for seizing; -- called also housing.

Same as Housling.

A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms.

an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience in a hospital or other medical institution.

A teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse.

One who dwells in the same house with another.

any of a variety of plants grown indoors for decorative purposes.

Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom.

The roof of a house, especially the flat part of a roof; as, shout it from the housetops.

same as housebroken.

A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.

The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.

Pertaining or appropriate to a housewife; domestic; economical; prudent.

The business of the mistress of a family; female management of domestic concerns.

To manage with skill and economy, as a housewife or other female manager; to economize.

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

A builder of houses.