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HOSTING
Verb
hosting
present participle of host
Noun
hosting (countable and uncountable, plural hostings)
(computing) Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.
(obsolete) A battle.
Anagrams
• noights, on sight, onsight, thingos, toshing
Source: Wiktionary
Host"ing, n. Etym: [From Host an army.] [Obs.]
1. An encounter; a battle. "Fierce hosting." Milton.
2. A muster or review. Spenser.
HOST
Host, n. Etym: [LL. hostia sacrifice, victim, from hostire to strike.] (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: 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.
Host, n. Etym: [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.
Host, n. Etym: [OE. host, ost, OF. hoste, oste, F. hĂ´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.]
Definition: One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitosly 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, v. t.
Definition: To give entertainment to. [Obs.] Spenser.
Host, v. i.
Definition: To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] "Where you shall host." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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UNSEASONED
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