Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
host .
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Examples
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Hey, you can disagree with me all you want but you can't go back and change the very first oost of this thread that describes the younger people in the workforce as "young snots".
The Ageism Thing Steve Hulett 2008
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¶ And whan Vertu se the sustau {n} ce of his oost he
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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Mineralogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ nature _nature_, or _choor_ oleomargarine _g_ is hard, as in _get_ orchid _orkid_ oust _owst_, not _oost_ peculiar _peculyar_ pecuniary _pekun'yari_ perspiration not _prespiratian_ prestige _pres'tij_ or _prestezh'_ pronunciation _pronunzeashun_ or _pronunsheashun_ saucy not _sassy_ schedule _skedyul_ semi not _semi_ theater _the'ater_ not _thea'ter_ turgid _turjid_ usage _uzage_ usurp _uzurp_ vermilion _vermilyun_ wife's not _wives_
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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Site Home Stu4rt 2012
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It is understood that the MoD is asking the Treasury for £150 million a year of extra funding for the TA to cover the oost of additional recruitment, training and equipment.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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And the same yere kyng Edward seyled over the see and landed at Caleys, whiche with all his oost rood forth into
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In this yere the kyng with a gret oost wente into Walys and remeved and brak the sege of the castell of Flynt and Rothelan.
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Pask ', the kyng ordeyned an huge oost for to feighte ayens the
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This yere came quene Margret into England with grete roialte of the kyngs oost, and was receyved at London the xxviij day of May in the moost goodly wise, with alle the citezeins on horsebak ridyng ayenst hir to the Blak heth in blew gownes and rede hodes; and in the cite in diverse places goodly sights ayenst hir comyng: and on the xxx day of
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Frensshmen of Fraunce broken there brigges and pyled the forthes of the water of Some and othere diverses wateres, that the kyng myghte nought passe but with moche disese til he com to the water of Swerdes; and there the kyng and his oost passyd over.
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