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Host
Host Host, n. (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.
Host
Host Host (h[=o]st), 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.
Note: In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior
as being an offering for the sins of men.
HostHost Host, 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. HostHost Host, n. [OE. host, ost, OF. hoste, oste, F. h[^o]te,
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.]
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.
To give entertainment to. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Host
Host Host, v. i.
To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] ``Where
you shall host.' --Shak.
Meaning of Host from wikipedia
- Look up
host,
höst,
høst, or
hosť in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
host is a
person responsible for
guests at an
event or for
providing hospitality...
- The
Host may
refer to: The
Host (Canterbury Tales), a
character in
Geoffrey Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales The
Host (novel), a 2008
novel by Stephenie...
- A
network host is a
computer or
other device connected to a
computer network. A
host may work as a
server offering information resources, services, and...
- A web
hosting service is a type of
Internet hosting service that
hosts websites for clients, i.e. it
offers the
facilities required for them to create...
- Look up
Hosting or
hosting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Hosting may
refer to: To act as the
organizer or
master of
ceremonies for an
event Self-hosting...
- The
following is a list of
host cities of the
Olympic Games, both
summer and winter,
since the
modern Olympics began in 1896.
Since then,
summer and winter...
- In
biology and medicine, a
host is a
larger organism that
harbours a
smaller organism;
whether a parasitic, a mutualistic, or a
commensalist guest (symbiont)...
-
Zaporozhian Host (or
Zaporizhian Sich) is a term for a
military force inhabiting or
originating from Zaporizhzhia, the
territory in what is
Southern and...
- A
bastion host is a special-purpose
computer on a
network specifically designed and
configured to
withstand attacks, so
named by
analogy to the bastion...
- A
smart host or
smarthost is an
email server via
which third parties can send
emails and have them
forwarded on to the
email recipients'
email servers...
