Hostile
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( a.) Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.
(2): ( n.) An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; - commonly in the plural.
King James Dictionary [2]
Hos'Tile, a. L. hostilis, from hostis, an enemy, that is, a foreigner.
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.
