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Webster 1913 Edition
Host
Host
(hōst)
, Noun.
[LL.
hostia
sacrifice, victim, from hostire
to strike.] (R. C. Ch.)
The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
☞ In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior as being an offering for the sins of men.
Host
(hōst)
, Noun.
1.
An army; a number of men gathered for war.
A
host
so great as covered all the field. Dryden.
2.
Any great number or multitude; a throng.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly
host
praising God. Luke ii. 13.
All at once I saw a crowd,
A
A
host
, of golden daffodils. Wordsworth.
Host
(hōst)
, Noun.
[OE.
host
, ost
, OF. hoste
, oste
, F. hôte
, from L. hospes
a stranger who is treated as a guest, he who treats another as his guest, a hostl prob. fr. hostis
stranger, enemy (akin to E. guest
a visitor) + potis
able; akin to Skr. pati
master, lord. See Host
an army, Possible
, and cf. Hospitable
, Hotel
.] 1.
One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
Chaucer.
“Fair host and Earl.” Tennyson.
Time is like a fashionable
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
host
,That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
Shakespeare
Host
,Verb.
T.
To give entertainment to.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Host
,Verb.
I.
To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
[Obs.]
“Where you shall host.” Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Host
HOST
,Noun.
1.
One who entertains another at his own house, without reward. Homer never entertained guests or hosts with long speeches.
2.
One who entertains another at his house for reward; an innkeeper; a landlord.3.
A guest; one who is entertained at the house of another. The innkeeper says of the traveler,he has a good host,and the traveler says of his landlord, he has a kind host. [See Guest.]HOST
,Noun.
1.
An army; a number of men embodied for war.2.
Any great number or multitude.HOST
,Noun.
In the Romish church, the sacrifice of the mass, or the consecrated wafer, representing the body of Christ, or as the Catholics allege, transubstantiated into his own body.
HOST
,Verb.
I.
HOST
,Verb.
T.