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Webster 1913 Edition
Hostile
Hos′tile
,Noun.
An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; – commonly in the plural.
[Colloq.]
P. H. Sheridan.
Webster 1828 Edition
Hostile
HOS'TILE
,Adj.
1.
Belonging to a public enemy; designating enmity, particularly public enmity, or a state of war; inimical; as a hostile band or army; a hostile force; hostile intentions.2.
Possessed by a public enemy; as a hostile country.3.
Adverse; opposite; unfriendly. [But the word is not properly applied to private enmity, or mere unfriendliness.]