||Hos"po*dar` (?), n. [A Slav. word; cf. Russ. gospodare lord, master.]
||A title borne by the princes or governors of Moldavia and Wallachia
||before those countries were united as Roumania.
Host (hst), 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.
In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior as being an
offering for the sins of men.
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.