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host
n. [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. ()
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n. [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.)
n. [OE. host, ost, OF. hoste, oste, F. hte, 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. ()
Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. (Shak.)
2. (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. ()
v. t. To give entertainment to. (Spenser.)
v. i. To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. (Shak.)


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