Host

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     Note: In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior
           as being an offering for the sins of men.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Host \Host\, v. t.
     To give entertainment to. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Host \Host\ (h[=o]st), 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.
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              A host so great as covered all the field. --Dryden.
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     2. Any great number or multitude; a throng.
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              And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of
              the heavenly host praising God.       --Luke ii. 13.
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              All at once I saw a crowd,
              A host, of golden daffodils.          --Wordsworth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Host \Host\, v. i.
     To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] "Where
     you shall host." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Host \Host\ (h[=o]st), 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}.]
     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.
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              Time is like a fashionable host,
              That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
                                                    --Shak.
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     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.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  host
       n 1: a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a
            party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for
            them while they are there
       2: a vast multitude [syn: {horde}, {legion}]
       3: an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite;
          the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the
          association [ant: {parasite}]
       4: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an
          introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn: {master
          of ceremonies}, {emcee}]
       5: archaic terms for army [syn: {legion}]
       6: any organization that provides resources and facilities for
          a function or event; "Atlanta was chosen to be host for
          the Olympic Games"
       7: (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a
          donor
       8: the owner or manager of an inn [syn: {innkeeper}, {boniface}]
       9: a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass
          or Holy Communion
       10: (computer science) a computer that provides client stations
           with access to files and printers as shared resources to
           a computer network [syn: {server}]
       v : be the host of or for; "We hosted 4 couples last night"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "Host":
     Agnus Dei, Communion, Eucharist, Holy Communion, Holy Grail,
     Last Supper, Pieta, Sacrament Sunday, Sanctus bell, Sangraal,
     altar bread, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, bambino,
     beadroll, beads, bread, bread and wine, candle, censer, chaplet,
     ciborium, consecrated bread, consecrated elements,
     consubstantiation, cross, crucifix, cruet, elements, eucharistial,
     holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, icon, impanation,
     incensory, intinction, loaf, matzo, menorah, mezuzah, mikvah,
     monstrance, osculatory, ostensorium, paschal candle, pax,
     phylacteries, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, pyx, real presence,
     relics, rood, rosary, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell,
     shofar, subpanation, sukkah, tabernacle, tallith,
     the Holy Sacrament, the Sacrament, thurible, transubstantiation,
     urceole, veronica, vigil light, votive candle, wafer
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "host":
     MC, a mass of, a world of, announcer, armed force, armed service,
     army, array, assemblage, assembly, bevy, body, bunch,
     career soldiers, cloud, cluster, clutter, cohue, colony, covey,
     crowd, crush, deluge, do the honors, drift, drive, drove, emcee,
     entertain, entertain guests, entertainer, fighting machine, flight,
     flock, flocks, flood, forces, galaxy, gam, gang, give a party,
     ground forces, ground troops, guest, hail, have, heap, herd, hive,
     horde, hostess, innkeeper, jam, kennel, landlady, landlord,
     large amount, legion, legions, litter, lots, manager, many, mass,
     masses of, master of ceremonies, military establishment, mine host,
     mob, muchness, multitude, nest, numbers, occupation force, pack,
     panoply, paratroops, plurality, pod, presenter, preside, press,
     pride, proprietor, proprietress, publican, quantities, quite a few,
     rabble, rank and file, ranks, receptionist, regular army, regulars,
     rout, ruck, school, scores, shoal, ski troops, skulk, sloth,
     soldiery, spate, standing army, storm troops, swarm, the line,
     the military, throng, throw a party, tidy sum, trip, troop, troops,
     worlds of
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  host
       
          1.  A computer connected to a {network}.
       
          The term {node} includes devices such as routers and printers
          which would not normally be called "hosts".
       
          2.  A computer to which one connects using a
          {terminal emulator}.
       
          (1995-02-16)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Host
     an entertainer (Rom. 16:23); a tavern-keeper, the keeper of a
     caravansary (Luke 10:35).
     
       In warfare, a troop or military force. This consisted at first
     only of infantry. Solomon afterwards added cavalry (1 Kings
     4:26; 10:26). Every male Israelite from twenty to fifty years of
     age was bound by the law to bear arms when necessary (Num. 1:3;
     26:2; 2 Chr. 25:5).
     
       Saul was the first to form a standing army (1 Sam. 13:2;
     24:2). This example was followed by David (1 Chr. 27:1), and
     Solomon (1 Kings 4:26), and by the kings of Israel and Judah (2
     Chr. 17:14; 26:11; 2 Kings 11:4, etc.).