A great chamberlain.

An institution for the reception and care of sick, wounded, iutirm, oraged persons; generally incorporated, and then of the class of corporations called’

A host or entertainer.Hospitator communis. Au innkeeper. 8 Coke, 32.llospitator magnus. The marshal of a camp.

Inns. Hospitia communia, common inns. Reg. Orig. 105. Hospitia curia:,inns of court. Hospitia canccllarice, inns of chancery. Crabb, Eng. Law, 428, 420; 4Reeve, Eng. Law, 120.

One that kills his guest or host

A Turkish governor in Moldavia or Wallachia.

L. Fr. An army. Britt. C. 22. A military expedition; war. Kelham.

A person who is given into the possession of the enemy, iu a public war,his freedom (or life) to stand as security for the performance of some contract orpromise made by the

In old records. A right to receive lodging and entertainment,anciently reserved by lords in the houses of their tenants. Cowell.

See HOSTLER.

In old records. The host- bread, or consecrated wafer, in the eucha- ristCowell.

One who kills an enemy.

A place or room in religious houses used for the reception of guests and strangers.

Having the character of an enemy; standing in the relation of an enemy. See 1 Kent, Comm. c. 4.

In the law of nations. A state of open war. “At the breaking out of hostility.” 1 Kent, Comm. 00.Au act of open war. “When hostilities have commenced.” Id. 50.A hostile character.

In Norman and old English law, this was the title of the officer in amonastery charged with the entertainment of guests. It was also applied (until aboutthe time of Queen Elizabeth) to

In old English law. This was a test, in cases of accusation, byhot water; the party accused and suspected being appointed by the judge to put hisarms up to the elbows iu

The blending and mixing property belonging to differeift persons, inorder to divide it equally. 2 Bl. Comm. 190.Anciently applied to the mixing and blending of lands given to one daughter in frankmarriage,

An inn ; a public house or tavern ; a house for entertaining strangers ortravelers. St Louis v. Siegrist, 40 Mo. 594; People v. Jones, 54 Barb. (X. Y.) 316; Cromwellv. Stephens,

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