| hostility | Tendency to feel anger toward and to seek to inflict harm upon a person or group. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| hostler | 1. An innkeeper. See Hosteler. 2. The person who has the care of horses at an inn or stable; hence, any one who takes care of horses; a groom; so called because the innkeeper formerly attended to this duty in person. 3. The person who takes charge of a locomotive when it is left by the engineer after a trip. Origin: OE. Hosteler, osteler, innkeeper, OF. Hostelier, F. Hotelier. See Hostel, and cf. Hospitaler, Hosteler. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| hostry | 1. A hostelry; an inn or lodging house. 2. A stable for horses. Origin: OE. Hosterie, osterie, OF. Hosterie. See Host a landlord. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| transport host | An intermediate host in which no development of the parasite occurs, although its presence may be required as an essential link in the completion of the parasite's life cycle; e.g., the successive fish host's that carry the plerocercoid of Diphyllobothrium latum, the broad fish tapeworm, to larger food fish eventually eaten by man or other final host's. Synonym: transport host. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| type host | <zoology> The host species with which the name-bearing type of a nominal species or subspecies was associated. (09 Jan 1998) |
| final host | <epidemiology> The host in which a parasite reproduces sexually. (05 Dec 1998) |