Part 5403

<blockquote>A <b>host</b> so great as covered all the field. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Any great number or multitude; a throng.</def>

<blockquote>And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly <b>host</b> praising God. <i>Luke ii. 13.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>All at once I saw a crowd, A <b>host</b>, of golden daffodils. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Host</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>host</ets>, <ets>ost</ets>, OF. <ets>hoste</ets>, <ets>oste</ets>, F. <ets>h\'93te</ets>, from L. <ets>hospes</ets> a stranger who is treated as a guest, he who treats another as his guest, a hostl prob. fr. <ets>hostis</ets> stranger, enemy (akin to E. <ets>guest</ets> a visitor) + <ets>potis</ets> able; akin to Skr. <ets>pati</ets> master, lord. See <er>Host</er> an army, <er>Possible</er>, and cf. <er>Hospitable</er>, <er>Hotel</er>.]</ety> <def>One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitosly or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.</def> <i>Chaucer</i>. "Fair <i>host</i> and Earl." <i>Tennyson</i>.

<blockquote>Time is like a fashionable <b>host</b>, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Host</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To give entertainment to.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

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<hw>Host</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Where you shall <i>host</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Hostage</h1> <Xpage=708>

<hw>Hos"tage</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hostage</ets>, OF. <ets>hostage</ets>, <ets>ostage</ets>, F. <ets>\'93tage</ets>, LL. <ets>hostaticus</ets>, <ets>ostaticum</ets>, for <ets>hospitaticum</ets>, fr. L. <ets>hospes</ets> guest, host. The first meaning is, the state of a guest, hospitality; hence, the state of a hostage (treated as a guest); and both these meanings occur in Old French. See <er>Host</er> a landlord.]</ety> <def>A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released.</def>

<blockquote>Your <b>hostages</b> I have, so have you mine; And we shall talk before we fight. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He that hath a wife and children hath given <b>hostages</b> to fortune. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Hostel</h1> <Xpage=708>

<hw>Hos"tel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>hostel</ets>, <ets>ostel</ets>, OF. <ets>hostel</ets>, <ets>ostel</ets>, LL. <ets>hospitale</ets>, <ets>hospitalis</ets>, fr. L. <ets>hospitalis</ets>. See <er>Hospital</er>, and cf. <er>Hotel</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An inn.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>

<i>Poe.</i>

<blockquote>So pass I <b>hostel</b>, hall, and grange. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Holinshed.</i>

<h1>Hosteler</h1> <Xpage=708>

<hw>Hos"tel*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Hostel</er>, and cf. <er>Hostler</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The keeper of a hostel or inn.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Fuller.</i>

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