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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OE.

hosterie

osterie

, OF.

hosterie

. See

a landlord.]

A hostelry; an inn or lodging house.

[Obs.]

Marlowe.

A stable for horses.

[Obs.]

Johnson.

Adj.

A stable for horses.

A lodging house.

hostry ‎(plural hostries)

(obsolete) A hostelry. [14th-18th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke II:
  And wrapped hym in swadlynge cloothes, and layed hym in a manger, because there was no roume for them within, in the hostrey.
- c. 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, IV.6:
  I, seeing that, took him by the leg and never rested pulling till I had pulled me his leg quite off, and now 'tis at home in mine hostry.
(obsolete) A stable for horses.
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