Host

TO RECKON WITHOUT ONE’S HOST, verb. phr. (old: now recognised).—To blunder.

  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. HOST. TO RECKON WITHOUT ONE’S HOST, or count your Chickens before they are Hatched.

  MINE HOST, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A taverner.