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HOS'TING,/ An encounter in battle : * 
Strange to ns it Teem’d 
At firft, that angel fhould with angel war. 
And in fierce hoftings meet. Milton. 
A review; a mufter.—Lords have had the leading of their 
own followers to the general hojhngs. Sp(infer. ■■ 
HOST LER, / One who has the care of horfes at an inn. 
HOSTTESS, adj. Inhofpitable: 
Who with fir Salyrane, as earft ye red, 
Forth ryding from Malbeccoes hojilefs hous. 
Far off afpyde a young man, the which fled 
From an huge geaunt. Spenfer. 
HOS'TORP, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Skone: ten miles north-weft of Lund. 
HOS'TRY, f. [corrupted from kofidryf A place where 
the horfes of guefts are kept: 
Swift rivers are with fudden ice conftrain’d, 
And itudded wheels are on its back fuftain’d ; 
A.n hojlry now for waggons, which before ' 
Tall ihips of burden on its bofom bore. Dryden. 
This interpretation (fays Mafon in his Supplement to 
Johnfon) feems to be merely conjectural, from a fimilitude 
of found and letters. Spenfer ufes the word for a mean 
lodging : 
Only thefe marifhes and myrie bogs, 
In which the fearfull ewftes do build their bowres; 
Yield me an hojlry mongft the croking frogs. Fairy Queen. 
HOS'TUN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Drome, and chief place of a canton, in the diltrict of 
Romans : two leagues eait of Romans. 
HOT, adj. [lure, Sax. hat, Scot.] Having the power'to 
excite the fenfe of heat; contrary to cold ; fiery.—Black 
fubltances do fooneft of all others become hot in the iun’s 
light, and burn ; wliich effect may proceed partly from 
the multitude of refractions in a little room, and partly 
from ealy commotion of lb very lrnall corpufcles. Newton. 
Hot and cold were in one body fixt; 
And Toft with hard, and light with heavy, mint. Dryden. 
Luftful; lewd: 
Now the Z’cf-blooded gods alfift me! 
Remember, Jove, thou wait a bull for my Europa. Shakefp. 
Violent; furious ; dangerous.—That of Carthageria, where 
the Soaniards had warning of our coming, was one of the 
kottejl fervices that hath been known. Bacon. 
Our army 
Is now in hot engagement with the Moors. Dryden. 
Ardent; vehement; precipitate.—Achilles is impatient, 
hot, revengeful; FEneas, patient, confiderate, 'and careful 
of his people. Dryden. 
Nature to youth hot rafhn<?fsdoth difpenfe, 
But with cold prudence age doth recompenfe. Denham. 
Eage r ; keen in defire.—It is no wonder that men, either 
per.dexed in the necelfary affairs of life, or hot in the pur- 
iuit of plealure, flrould not ferioully examine their tenets. 
Locke. 
She has, quoth Ralph, a jointure, 
Which makes him have lo hot a mind t’ her. Hudibras. 
It is' applied likewile to the defire, or fenfe railing the de- 
lire,-or aftion excited; as, a hot purfuit: 
Nor lavv, nor checks of conlcience, will we hear, 
When in hot feent. of gain and full career. Dryden. 
Piquant; acrid: as, /i«f as muftard. 
HO I, HO j. E, pret. of the verb hight, both aftive and 
pailive. Named: 
A fhepherd true, yet not fo true. 
As he that.eaffr i hote. Spenfer. 
Was called.—It rightly hot the well of life. Spenfer. 
-BED, J. A bed of earth made hot by the fer- 
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mentation of dung. See the article Horticulture, in 
this volume. 
HOT-BRAINED, adj. Violent; vehement; furious: 
You {hall find ’em either hot-brain'd youth, 
Or needy bankrupts. - Dryden. 
HOT'-COCKLES, f. [ haut.es coquilles, Fr.] A play in 
which one covers his eyes, and guelfes who Itrikes him : 
As at hot-cockles once I laid me down, 
And felt the weiglity hand of many a clown, 
Buxoma gave a gentle tap, and I 
Quick role, and read foft mifehief in her eye. Gay. 
HOT-HEADED, adj. Vehement; violent; paflionate. 
—One would not make the fame perlon zealous for a 
ftanding army and public liberty; nor a hot-headed cox¬ 
comb forward for a fcheme of moderation. Arbuthnot. 
HOT'-HOUSE,/. A confervatory for exotic plants, and 
for the purpofe of forcing early fruits. See Horticul¬ 
ture. 
HOT'-MOUTHED, adj. Headlining; ungovernable: 
I fear my people’s faith, 
That hot-mouth'd beaft that bears againft the curb, 
Hard to be broken. Dryden. 
HOT'-PRESSING, f. The art of palling the printed 
Iheets of a book between two hot metallic plates, whereby 
they' acquire a iinooth furface, and glolfy appearance, high¬ 
ly conducive to the elegance of modem typography. 
HO-TCHI', a town of China, of the fecond rank, in 
the province of Quang-fi: 1040 miles fouth-weft of Pe¬ 
king. Lat. 24. 61. N. Ion. 125. 10. E. Ferro. 
HOTCH'POT, or Hotch'potch,/.' ft ache en pocke, Fr. 
or hache en pot, Fr. as Camden has it, as being boiled up in 
a pot; yet the former corruption is now generally followed.] 
A word ufed for a confufed mingling of divers things top-e¬ 
ther, and among the Dutch it lignifies flelh cut into pieces' 
and fodden with herbs or roots; but by a metaphor in 
law, it is a blending or mixing of lands given in marriage 
with other lands in fee falling-by deicent; as if a man 
lei led of thirty acres of land in fee, hath ifi'ue only two 
daughters, and he gives with one of them ten acres in 
marriage to the man,that marries her; and dies leifed of 
the other twenty acres; now file that is thus married to 
gain her {bare of the reft v " -'the land, mull put her part 
given in marriage, into hotchpot, i. e. the mull refufe to 
take the foie profits thereof, and caufe her land to be 
mingled with the other; fo that an equal divifion may be 
made of the whole between her and her lifter, as if none 
had ( been given to her ; and thus for her ten acres ihe 
lhall have fifteen, otherwife her filter will have the twenty 
acres of which her father died l'eifed. Co. Lit.fc. 12. This 
feems to be a right of waiving a provifion, made for a 
child in a man’s life-time, at his death ; thouo-h, as it de¬ 
pends upon frank-marriage, and gifts of lands therein it 
nowyfeldom happens. 
But there is a bringing of money into hotchpot, uoon 
the claufes.and within the intent of the ftatute for diftri- 
butibn of intellates’ eftates, Hat. 22 & 23 Car. II c 10 
Where a certain fum is to be railed, and paid to a dauo-h- 
ter for her portion, by a lnarriage-fettlemen;, this has 
been decreed to be an advancement by the fa die • m his 
life time, within the meaning of the llatute, tKt>u°h fu¬ 
ture and contingent; and, if the daughter would havedny 
further fnare of her father’s perlonal eftate, fire mu ft bring 
this money into hotchpot; and lhall not have both the 
one and the other.. See 2 Fern. 638. 
By the cuftom of London, there is likewile a term of 
hotchpot, where‘the children cf.a freeman are to have an 
equal fiiare of one third part of his perfonal eftate, after 
( hiJ <leath. Preccd. Cane. 3. There is alfo-in the civil law 
'collatio bonorum aniwerable to this, whereby, if a c’ iid ad 
vanced by the father do after his father’s deceale chaf 
lenge a child’s part with the reft, he mull call in all that 
he had formerly received, and-then take out an equal 
lliare with the others. 2 Comm., 190, 517. 1 
HOTEL', [French.] A noble dwelling; commonly 
ufed. 
