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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 Hosts from wikipedia
- "
Host", an
author abbreviation in
botany for
Nicolaus Thomas Host Hosts (World of Darkness),
fictional characters in game Werewolf: The
Forsaken Hosts...
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computer file
hosts is an
operating system file that maps
hostnames to IP addresses. It is a
plain text file.
Originally a file
named HOSTS.TXT was manually...
- 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...
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shrews and
rodents as the
paratenic hosts, and
mustelids as the
definitive hosts. Dead-end, incidental, or
accidental host – an
organism that
generally does...
- The
Host may
refer to:
Lorne (Angel), a
character on the
television series Angel A
Marvel Comics supervillain The
Host (Canterbury Tales), a character...
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separate hosts,
settled along the frontiers: the Don
Cossack Host the Bug
Cossacks the
Kuban Cossack Host the
Terek Cossack Host the
Astrakhan Cossack Host the...
- be
called an IP
host. Specifically,
computers parti****ting in the
Internet are
called Internet hosts.
Internet hosts and
other IP
hosts have one or more...
- Name-based
virtual hosts use
multiple host names for the same IP address. A
technical prerequisite needed for name-based
virtual hosts is a web browser...
- talk show
hosts,
sorted alphabetically by
their surnames. Contents: Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z List of game show
hosts...
