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n. [ Fluo- + phosphate. ] (Chem.) A double salt of fluoric and phosphoric acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites. [ 1913 Webster ]

To where you taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being hospitable; hospitality. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a hospitable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. hospitagium, for L. hospitium. See Hospice. ] Hospitality. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. hospitalis: cf. OF. hospital. ] Hospitable. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A form of medical insurance that pays for all or part of the fees for a person's residence and treatment in a hospital. [ PJC ]

v. t. To place (a person) in a hospital in order to receive medical treatment, for observation, or for rest. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- hospitalize. [ PJC ]

n. (Med.) A vitiated condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Hospitalities [ L. hospitalitas: cf. F. hospitalité. ] The act or practice of one who is hospitable; reception and entertainment of strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. [ 1913 Webster ]

Given to hospitality. Rom. xii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

And little recks to find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. medical care in a hospital; also, the period during which one receives care in a hospital.
Syn. -- hospital care. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. (Med.) To render (a building) unfit for habitation, by long continued use as a hospital. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place (a person) in a hospital in order to receive medical treatment, observation, or for rest.
Syn. -- hospitalise. [ PJC ]

v. i. [ L. hospitatus, p. p. of hospitari to be a guest, fr. hospes guest. ] To receive hospitality; to be a guest. [ Obs. ] Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To receive with hospitality; to lodge as a guest. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. See Hospice. ] 1. An inn; a lodging; a hospice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) An inn of court. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ A Slav. word; cf. Russ. gospodare lord, master. ] A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia before those countries were united as Rumania. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of hypophosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of hypophosphorous acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. hypo- + phosphoric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hypophosphoric acid (Chem.), an acid, P2H4O6, produced by the slow oxidation of moist phosphorus, and isolated only as a solution in water. It is regarded as a condensation product of one molecule of phosphoric acid with one of phosphorous acid, by partial dehydration. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. hypo- + phosphorous. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus in a lower state of oxidation than in phosphoric compounds; as, hypophosphorous acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hypophosphorous acid (Chem.) , an acid, H3PO2, whose salts are produced by the action of barium hygrate on phosphorus. It may be obtained from its water solution, by exaporation and freezing, as a white crystalline substance. It is a powerful reducing agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + hospitable: cf. L. inhospitalis. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have you no touch of pity, that the poor
Stand starved at your inhospitable door? Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. “Inhospitable wastes.” Blair.

-- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*ness, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inhospitalitas: cf. F. inhospitalité. See In- not, and Hospitality. ] The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Litho- + phosphor. ] A stone that becomes phosphoric by heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to lithophosphor; becoming phosphoric by heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Litho- + sphere. ] (Phys. Geog.) (a) The solid earth as distinguished from its fluid envelopes, the hydrosphere and atmosphere. (b) The outer part of the solid earth, the portion undergoing change through the gradual transfer of material by volcanic eruption, the circulation of underground water, and the process of erosion and deposition. It is, therefore, regarded as a third mobile envelope comparable with the hydrosphere and atmosphere. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

pos>n. A hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of metaphosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. meta- + phosphoric. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid. Compare the tribasic orthophosphoric acid. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ Ortho- + Gr. &unr_; seed. ] (Bot.) Having the seeds straight, as in the fruits of some umbelliferous plants; -- opposed to coelospermous. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. para- + phosphoric. ] (Chem.) Pyrophosphoric. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Phosphorus + ammonia. ] (Chem.) An inert amorphous white powder, PN2H, obtained by passing ammonia over heated phosphorus. [ Spelt also phosphame. ] -- Phos"pham"ic a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of phosphoric acid or a compound containing the phosphate radical group -PO4; as, trisodium phosphate (Na3PO4); triethyl phosphate ((C2H5)3PO4). [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. [ 1913 Webster ]

Phosphatic diathesis (Med.), a habit of body which leads to the undue excretion of phosphates with the urine. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Phosphate, and Urine. ] (Med.) The excessive discharge of phosphates in the urine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. fw^s light + fai`nein to show. ] (Physiol.) A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After-image. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A binary compound of phosphorus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Dyeing) Chrysaniline, often in the form of a salt. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Chem.) A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. It is postulated as one possible cause of the rare lights seen in marshes -- see ignis fatuus. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

☞ It is the most important compound of phosphorus and hydrogen, and is produced by the action of caustic potash on phosphorus. It is spontaneously inflammable, owing to impurities, and in burning produces peculiar vortical rings of smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain acids analogous to the phosphonic acids, but containing two hydrocarbon radicals, and derived from the secondary phosphines by oxidation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of phosphorous acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Phosphoric + sulphonic. ] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, certain derivatives of phosphorous acid containing a hydrocarbon radical with the phosphorus directly bonded to a carbon, and analogous to the sulphonic acids; as, methanephosphonic acid, CH3.PO.(OH)2. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

n. [ Phosphorus + ammonium. ] (Chem.) The hypothetical radical PH4, analogous to ammonium, and regarded as the nucleus of certain derivatives of phosphine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. phosphor. See Phosphorus. ] 1. Phosphorus. [ Obs. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; Lucifer. [ Poetic and Rare ] Pope. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A phosphorescent substance. [ archaic ] [ PJC ]

4. A substance capable of exhibiting luminescence. This term is now most commonly used to refer to substances used in fluorescent lights, image intensifiers, or cathode-ray tubes (CRT's), which luminesce when excited by ultraviolet radiation or an electron beam. In color CRT's, three different phosphors, each giving different colors when excited, are used. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Phosphorated p. pr. & vb. n. Phosphorating. ] (Chem.) To impregnate, or combine, with phosphorus or its compounds; as, phosphorated oil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Phosphor + bronze. ] (Metal.) A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, and toughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It contains one or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per cent of tin. [ 1913 Webster ]