fires. [U.S.] — Hose coupling, coupling with interlocking parts for uniting hose, end to end. — Hose
wrench, a spanner for turning hose couplings, to unite or disconnect them.
Hosen
(Ho"sen) n. pl. See Hose. [Archaic]
Hosier
(Ho"sier) n. One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.
Hosiery
(Ho"sier*y) n.
1. The business of a hosier.
2. Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.
Hospice
(Hos"pice) n. [F., fr. L. hospitium hospitality, a place where strangers are entertained, fr. hospes
stranger, guest. See Host a landlord.] A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment
for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.
Hospitable
(Hos"pi*ta*ble) a. [Cf. OF. hospitable, LL. hospitare to receive as a guest. See Host a
landlord.]
1. Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers
and guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak.
2. Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites.
To where you taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.
Goldsmith. Hospitableness
(Hos"pi*ta*ble*ness), n. The quality of being hospitable; hospitality. Barrow.
Hospitably
(Hos"pi*ta*bly), adv. In a hospitable manner.
Hospitage
(Hos"pi*tage) n. [LL. hospitagium, for L. hospitium. See Hospice.] Hospitality. [Obs.]
Spenser.
Hospital
(Hos"pi*tal) n. [OF. hospital, ospital, F. hôpital, LL. hospitale (or perh. E. hospital is directly
from the Late Latin), from L. hospitalis relating to a guest, hospitalia apartments for guests, fr. hospes
guest. See Host a landlord, and cf. Hostel, Hotel, Spital.]
1. A place for shelter or entertainment; an inn. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. A building in which the sick, injured, or infirm are received and treated; a public or private institution
founded for reception and cure, or for the refuge, of persons diseased in body or mind, or disabled,
infirm, or dependent, and in which they are treated either at their own expense, or more often by charity
in whole or in 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.
Hospital
(Hos"pi*tal), a. [L. hospitalis: cf. OF. hospital.] Hospitable. [Obs.] Howell.
Hospitaler
(Hos"pi*tal*er) n. [Written also hospitaller.] [F. hospitalier. See Hospital, and cf. Hostler.]
1. One residing in a hospital, for the purpose of receiving the poor, the sick, and strangers.
2. One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were
called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta.
