hosting 
Every springtide came war and hosting, harrying and 
burning. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 169. 
hostler, ostler (bos'- or os'ler, os'ler), . 
[(Jontr. of hosteler, osteler: see liosteler.] If. 
Same as hosteler, 1 . 2. The person who has the 
care of horses at an iim; a stable-boy; a groom. 
Bid the ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. 
Shale., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 
An Ostler is a thing that scrubbeth unreasonably his 
horse, reasonably himselfe. 
Sir T. Overbury, Characters, An Ostler. 
Wrinkled ostler, grim and thin, 
Here is custom come your way ; 
Take my brute, and lead him in, 
Stuff his ribs with mouldy hay. 
Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 
hostleress. OStleress (hos'- or os'ler-es, os'ler- 
es), n. [< hostler, ostler, + -ess.] A woman who 
does hostlers' work. [Rare.] 
Because she [the empress Helena) visited the stable 
and manger of our Saviour's nativitie, Jews and Pagans 
slander her to have been stabularia, an ostleresse, or a she- 
stable-groom. Fuller, Holy War, i. 4. 
A plump arm'd Ostleress and a stable wench 
Came running at the call. Tennyson, Princess, i. 
hostlesst (host'les), a. [< hosft + -less.'} In- 
hospitable. 
Forth ryding from Malbeccoes hostleste hous. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 8. 
hostryt (hos'tri), . [Formerly also ostry ; < 
ME. hostrye, hostrie, ostry, ostrie (cf. Sp. hos- 
teria = It. osteria), a contr. form of hostelry, 
q. v.] 1. A lodging-house; a hostelry; an inn. 
Onely these marishes and myrie bogs, 
In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, 
Yeeld me an hoetry mongst the croking frogs. 
Spenser, if. Q.,V. x. 23. 
2. A stable for horses. 
Keep further from me, O thou illiterate and unlearned 
hostler. . . . Keep out of the circle. I say, lest I send you 
into the ostn/ with a vengeance. Marlowe, Faustus, if. 3. 
host's-mant, n. [ME. hastes man,'] The ser- 
vant in charge of guests at a monastery. 
A sturdy harlot wente ay hem bihynde, 
That was hir hostes-man, and bar a sak, 
And what men gaf hem leyde it on his bak. 
Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 46. 
hot 1 (hot), .; compar. hotter, superl. hottest. 
[The vowel has become short in mod. E. ; for- 
merly hote (like it-rote, boat), early mod. E. also 
whot, whotc; < ME. hot, hote, hoot, < AS. hat = 
OS. het= OFries. het = D. heet= MLG. het, LG. 
het = OHG. MHG. heiz, G. heiss = Icel. hcitr = 
Sw. het = Dan. hed (Goth, "halts, not found), 
hot ; from the root *hit in AS. hit (occurs once, 
spelled hi/t, in Beowulf) = D. hitte, hette = OHG. 
liizza, MHG. G. hitze, f., = Icel. kiti, m., heat, 
hita, f., a heating (the E. heat is ult. from hot) ; 
perhaps extended from a root *hi, > OHG. MHG . 
hei, gehei, heat, and perhaps Goth, kais, a torch. 
See heat.'] 1. Having the sensation of heat, 
especially in a high degree, the lower degrees 
being denoted by warm. 
Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you. 
Shak., K. John, iv. 3. 
While the palate is still hot with a curry, an unflavoured 
dish seems insipid. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., 45. 
2. Having or communicating sensible heat, 
especially in more considerable quantity than 
is denoted by warm. 
Toward the Southe, it is so hoot, that no man ne may 
duelle there. Mandeville, Travels, p. 131. 
Master Peercy saitn in Guadaluza they found a bath so 
hote that it boyled them a peece of porke in half e an houre. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 901. 
As hot the day was, as when summer hung, 
With worn feet, on the last step of July. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 119. 
3. Having the property of exciting the effect 
or a feeling of heat ; stimulating; biting; pun- 
gent ; peppery: as, a hot blister. 
And ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too. 
Shak., T. N., ii. 3. 
It [the fruit] is as great as a Melon ; the iuice thereof 
is like sweet Must : it is so hot of Nature that if a knife 
sticke in it but halfe an houre, when it is drawn forth, it 
will bee halfe eaten vp. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 605. 
4. Ardent in feeling or temper; fiery; vehe- 
ment; passionate. 
Catesby . . . finds the testy gentleman so hot 
That he will lose his head ere give consent. 
Shak., Rich. III., iii. 4. 
The wars are dainty dreams to young hot spirits. 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, i. 1. 
The Boleyns were ever a hot and plain-spoken race, 
more hasty to speak their mind than careful to choose 
their expressions. Scott, Kenilworth, xxxiv. 
5. Violent; keen; brisk: as, a hot engagement; 
a hot pursuit, or a person hot in a pursuit. 
Hongur full hote harmyt horn then, 
And fayntid the folk, failet the strenkith. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.X 1. 9377. 
2898 
Not heavy, as that hound which Lancashire doth breed ; 
Nor as the Northern kind, so light and hot of speed. 
Draylon, Polyolbiun, iii. 38. 
He came in a very bad time, for y Stat was full of 
trouble, and y plague very hote in London. 
Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 204. 
6. Lustful; lewd. 
What hotter hours, 
Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have 
Luxuriously pick'd out. Shak., A. and C., iii. 11. 
7. Figuratively, heated by constant use, as if 
by friction. 
The New York and Washington wire is kept hot for 
eight hours every night. It supplements the very full 
market reports sent West by the Associated Press with 
more details collected in New York. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 679. 
8. Dry and quick to absorb. 
If the ceiling is hot i e. porous, and soaks in the 
moisture very quickly it must be prepared with a mix- 
ture of lime, one handful ; whiting, the same ; glue, } Ib. ; 
soft-soap, J Ib. Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 252. 
Hot and heavy, (a) Furious and severe; brisk and ef- 
fective: as, the engagement was hut and heavy. (6) Vig- 
orously or violently ; with might and main ; with quick 
and weighty blows, retorts, etc. [Colloq. ) Hot and Hot, 
in cookery, said of food cooked or served in hot dishes as 
required, and coming directly from the fire to the eater's 
plate. 
The crisp slices came off the gridiron hot and hot. 
Dickens, David Copperfleld, xxviii. 
Hotathandt. See hand. Hot blast See Want. Hot 
box. See box?. Hot cockles. See cockle?. Hot cop- 
pers. See copper. Hot O' the spur, very hotly earnest 
upon any point. Nares. 
Speed, an you be so hot o' th' spur, my business 
Is but breath, and your design, it seems, rides post. 
Shirley, Doubtful Heir, v. 
Hot wave. Seewace. Inhot blood. See blood. Pip- 
ing hot. See piping.- To be In hot water, to be In 
trouble arising from strife or from any embarrassment, as 
if from being plunged into hot water. 
Tom . . . was in everlasting hot water as the most in- 
corrigible scapegrace for ten miles round. 
Kingsley, Two Years Ago, i. 
To blow hot and cold. : cc 'ioid. Tomake a place 
too hot for one, to make a place, through persecution or 
other means, so unpleasant for a person that he leaves. 
When a Papal legate showed his face, they made the 
town too hot to hold him. 
J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 77. 
= Syn. 1. Burning, fiery, fervid, glowing. 3. Piquant, 
highly seasoned. 4. Excitable, irascible, hasty, precipi- 
tate, choleric. 
hot 2 (hot), n. [< ME. hotte, < OF. (andF.) hotte, 
a basket for the back, < G. dial, hotte, a wooden 
vessel, tub, a vintager's dosser: cf. dial, hotze, 
hotte, hutte, a cradle. E. hod 1 is a different 
word.] A sort of basket used for carrying turf, 
earth, slate, etc. [Prov. Eng.] 
Twigges . . . 
Swich as men to these cages thwyte, 
Or maken of these paniers, 
Or elles hottes or dossers. 
Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 1940. 
hot 3 t. A preterit of highft. 
hot 4 t. An obsolete irregular (strong) past par- 
ticiple of hit 1 . 
A viper smitten or hot with a reed is astonied. 
A Scott, Witchcraft, sig. S 8. 
hot-and-hot (hot'and-hof), [< hot and hot, 
phrase under hot 1 , a.] Food served as fast as 
it is cooked, to insure its being hot. 
Thy care is, under polish'd tins, 
To serve the hot-and-hot. 
Tennyson, Will Waterproof. 
hotbed (hot'bed), n. 1. In hort., a bed of earth 
heated by fermenting substances, and covered 
with glass to defend it from the cold air, in- 
tended for raising early plants, or for protect- 
ing tender exotics. 
In the garden [at Bryant's homel a small conservatory 
protects the blooming exotics during the cold season of 
the year, and numerous hotbeds assist the tender plants in 
spring. D. J. Hill, Bryant, p. 117. 
2. Figuratively, a seat of rapid growth or de- 
. velopment, or of eager activity of some kind : 
generally in a bad sense : as, a hotbed of sedi- 
tion. 
Palestine, which soon became the centre of pilgrimages, 
had become, in the time of St. Gregory of Nyssa, a hotbed 
of debauchery. Leek)/, Europ. Morals, II. 161. 
During my experience of Khartoum it was the hotbed of 
the slave-trade. Sir S. W. Baker, Heart of Africa, xii. 
3. In rail-making, the bed on which the red- 
hot rail taken from the rolls is placed to cool. 
hot-blooded (hot'blud"ed), a. Having hot 
blood; hence, of an excitable temper; high- 
spirited; irritable; passionate; amatory. 
Now, the hot-blooded gods assist me. . . . You were also, 
Jupiter, a swan, for the love of Leda. 
SAo*.,M. W. of W., v. 5. 
hotbraint, . An impetuous, fiery person; a 
hothead. Danes. 
hotel 
As if none wore hoods but monks and ladies, . . . nor 
perriwigs but players and hot-brains. 
Machin, Dumb Knight, i. 
hot-brained (hot'brand), a. Violent; rash; pre- 
cipitate; hot-headed. 
You shall find 'em either hot-brain'd youth 
Or needy bankrupts. Dryden, Spanish Friar. 
hotch (hoch), v. [< F. hocher, shake, wag, jog, 
< OD. hittsen, hotsen, D. hotsen, shake, jog, jolt. 
Cf. D. freq. hutselen, shake, jog, shake together, 
shake up and down, as in a tub, bowl, or basket, 
> E. hustle, q. v.] I. trans. 1. To shake ; jolt ; 
shake in order to separate, as beans from peas 
after they are threshed together. 2. To drive 
(cattle). 
II. intrant. 1. To shake; move by sudden 
jerks or starts. 2. To limp. 3. To be rest- 
less. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch in all uses.] 
Even Satan glowr'd and fidg'd fu' fain, 
And hotch'd and blew wi' might and main. 
Burns, Tarn o' Shanter. 
hot-chisel (hot'chiz"el), n. A chisel for cutting 
metal which is first heated: distinguished from 
cold-chisel. 
In the first place, cold and hot chisels are both made 
throughout of forged or wrought iron, but as cold chisels 
are used for cutting cold metal, bricks, and other hard 
substances, the iron of which they are made is more high- 
ly tempered. N. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 151. 
hotchpot (hoch'pot), . [< ME. liocltepot (with 
irreg. var., by riming variation, hocltepoche (> 
mod. E. hotchpotch, q. v.), < OF. hochepot, a 
mingled mass, < OD. hutspot, beef or mutton 
cut into small pieces and mixed and boiled to- 
gether in a pot, < hutsen, also hotsen, shake, jog, 
jolt, + pot, pot : see hotch and pot. Hence, by 
later variation, hotchpotch, hodgepodge.] If. A 
mixture of various ingredients ; a hodgepodge 
or hotchpotch. 
Ye han cast alle hire wordes in an hochepot [variants 
hoche potte, hoche poche, hochpot], and enclined youre herte 
to the moore partie ana to the gretter nombre. 
Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. 
Goose in a hoggepot. Liber Cure Cocorum, p. 32. 
The old sway of Rome, the successive deluges of Goth. 
Lombard, Greek, and German, had thrown rights and 
wrongs [in Italy] into an inextricable hotchpot. 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 222. 
2. In law, the aggregating of shares or proper- 
ties, actually or theoretically, in order to secure 
equality of division. Thus, a child who has had a por- 
tion of an estate in advance of the others is required to 
bring what he has received into hotchpot, and account for 
the same, as a condition of having any share in the distri- 
bution of the residue. Collation is the Scotch term. 
With us it is denominated bringing those lands into hotch- 
pot, which term I shall explain in the very words of Little- 
ton : " it seemeth that this word hotch-pot is in English a 
pudding ; for in a pudding is not commonly put one thing 
alone, but one thing with other things together." 
Elackstone, Com., II. xii. 
hotchpotch (hoch'poch), n. [< ME. hoche- 
poche, a rimed variation of orig. hotchpot, ME. 
hochepot: see hotchpot. With final sonants, 
hodgepodge.'] 1. A cooked dish containing a 
medley of ingredients; specifically, in Scot- 
land, a kind of thick broth made by boiling 
lamb, mutton, or beef with many kinds of vege- 
tables. 
Although their Bellies strout with too-much meat, . . . 
Yet still they howl for hunger ; and they long 
For Memphian hotchpotch, Leeks, and Garlick strong. 
SytveKter, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Lawe. 
2. An indiscriminate mixture; a medley or 
jumble ; a hodgepodge. 
[He] thrusteth them in together, makyng of them an 
huche-pocht; all contrarye to the wholesome doctryne of 
Saynt Paule. Bp. Bale, Apology, fol. 33. 
Others think they made hotchpotch of ludaisme and 
Gentilisme, as Herod had done. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 149. 
But a careful examination of Captain Burton's transla- 
tion shows that he has . . . made a hotchpotch of various 
texts. Edinburgh Itee., CLXIV. 180. 
=Syn. 2. See mixture. 
hoteH, a. An obsolete spelling of hot 1 . 
hote 2 t, v. See hightf. 
hotel (ho-tel'), n. [< F. hdtel, < OF. hostel, an 
inn, etc., > ME. hostel, E. hostel, q. v.] 1. A 
house for entertaining strangers or travel- 
ers ; an inn ; especially, an inn of some style 
and pretensions. See inn. 2. A private city 
dwelling; particularly, a large town mansion. 
[French usage.] 
This venerable nobleman [the Comtede Florae] . . . has 
his chamber looking out into the garden of his hotel. . . . 
The rest of the hotel he gives up to his son, the Vicomte 
de Florae, and Madame la Princesse de Montcontour, his 
daughter-in-law. Thackeray, Newcomes, xlvi. 
3. A public office or building: as, the Hotel de 
Ville (city hall) in Paris. [French usage.] 
=Syn. 1. See tavern. 
