Anagrams of: HOSTELRY

• for a short time

• in the near future

• in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner

• in a concise manner; in a few words

• at a short distance

• a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena

• a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

• a belief that can guide behavior

• A short person.

• A term of endearment for a child, younger sibling, shorter person, etc.

• A child.

• An attractive young female, especially one who is sexually available.

• A girlfriend.

• A child's term or name for a horse.

• A game where a child rides on the back of another, who is on all fours.

• Of or relating to horses.

• Of a person or people, involved in breeding or riding horses.

• Of a graphic design or typographical treatment which is clumsy, clunky, or unrefined.

• a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose

• the univalent hydrocarbon radical C2H5 derived from ethane by the removal of one hydrogen atom

• an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)

• English writer on card games (1672-1769)