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Host

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

(2):

(n.) The spirit; the soul of man.

(3):

(n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

(4):

(n.) A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

(5):

(v. t.) To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

(6):

(v. i.) To die; to expire.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Host'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/host.html. 1828.