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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.
[OE.
host
,
ost
, OF.
host
,
ost
, fr. L.
hostis
enemy, LL., army. See
Guest
, and cf.
Host
a landlord.]
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
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
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.
[L.hostis, a stranger, an enemy, probably of the same family. See Hospitable.]
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.
[L. hostis, a stranger, an enemy.] The sense is probably transferred from a single foe to an army of foes.]
1.
An army; a number of men embodied for war.
2.
Any great number or multitude.

HOST

,
Noun.
[L. hostia, a victim or sacrifice, from hostis, an enemy.]
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.
To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Little used.]

HOST

,
Verb.
T.
To give entertainment to. [Not used.]

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