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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

The dictionary's 1913 edition of the 1900 International, renamed Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, has in modern times been used in various free online resources, as its copyright lapsed and it became public domain.
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Host

Host (host)
n.(h1913 webster dictionaryst)
Host
[LL. hostia sacrifice, victim, from hostire to strike.] (R. C. Ch.)
  1. 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

Host (host)
n.
Host
  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

Host (host)
n.
Host
  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.     Shak.

Host

Host (host)
v. t.
Host
  1. To give entertainment to.
    [Obs.] Spenser.

Host

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

Host

Host (host)
n.
Host
  1. 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.












Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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