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noun

Host n. (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. Note: In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior as being an offering for the sins of men.

Host n.

An army; a number of men gathered for war. "A host so great as covered all the field."

Any great number or multitude; a throng. "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God." "All at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils."

Host n.

One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord. "Fair host and Earl." "Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand."

(Biol.) Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. Thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it.

verb

Host v. t. To give entertainment to. (Obs.)

Host v. i. To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. (Obs.) "Where you shall host."

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Etymology of 'Host'

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"Host" Quotes from Famous Books

... and would have persisted in talking at once if his host had permitted. The latter refused to listen, and so the young man sat silent in the rocking chair, his soaked trouser legs and boots steaming in the heat from the open door of the oven, while the ...

— Fair Harbor • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

... murder. In a planned street-scuffle, Mosby pretends to take Arden's part, and thus throws him off his guard. Arden thinks he has wronged him, and invites him to his house, but Mosby conspires with two hired ruffians to fall on his host during a game of draughts, the right moment being signified by Mosby's saying, "Now I take you." Arden is murdered; but the whole gang is apprehended and brought ...

— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

... entered, Mr. Dale bending his tall white head a little; and while the lawyer unwound a long blue muffler from about his throat, the host lighted a lamp, and, getting down on his knees, blew the dim embers in the rusty grate into a flickering blaze. Then he pulled a blackened crane from the jamb, and hung on it a dinted brass kettle, so that he might add some hot water to Mr. Denner's gin and sugar, and also make himself a cup ...

— John Ward, Preacher • Margaret Deland

... his host that he had read with delight his two lectures on Carlyle, and that "the goodness of that memorable week" was never ...

— The Brownings - Their Life and Art • Lilian Whiting

... Perfectionists in Newark, N.J. Some of them were with Noyse, others were against his supporting the Free Love doctrine. I addressed the audience. Then I was invited to dinner by a Perfectionist who did not belong to Noyse's Party. I was asked by my host, whether I did read or not, what appeared shortly before that in Noyse's "Perfectionist" against me. After my negative answer he gave me the number containing Noyse's article against me. I took it to the meeting ...

— Secret Enemies of True Republicanism • Andrew B. Smolnikar

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