Hosts [noun]

Fourteen genera, representing about 19 species, of Mallophaga are reported for 20 different species of bird hosts.

It was an arrangement which gave pleasure to both hosts and guests, and was not without advantage to the company.

So the three Babcocks departed, and the silence which succeeded her deluge of words was soothing to her hosts beyond expression.

And now, hosts of bewildering and confused ideas came crowding on his mind.

Maria Antoinette would have gone through fire and blood to have rallied those hosts around her banner.

In his dressing-room Diotti was besieged by hosts of people, congratulating him in extravagant terms.

Inside of half a minute those two prodigious hosts came together with a crash!

After the meal, the dauphiness came out on the balcony to take leave of her hosts.

We will take Norway more easily than by fighting for her with all the hosts of Denmark.

Ragnfrod sailed with his fleet southward to Stad, for he feared him that the land hosts might assemble and flock to Earl Hakon.