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n. In computing, a person responsible for managing domain name records within the Domain Name System or any individual computer (typically a server).
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The Hostmaster Pattern was manufactured by New Martinsville Glass Company (which later became Viking Glass Company) during the 1930s. Though the line was extensive, New Martinsville Hostmaster Pattern is one of the lesser known patterns of Elegant Glass. There are no reproductions as the mold was melted down to make the Raindrops pattern (line #14).
Usage examples of "hostmaster".
Now they were immobilized and placed before the Hostmaster, which extended the long ovipositor and set the young to work upon the host things.
A dark brown lobe appeared, it squirmed in the air and was followed by another, and then several more as the Hostmaster crawled forth.
WHEN the humans had been assembled in the spaceport terminal the Hostmaster decided on a whim to visit the place and view the herd.
When they did, they would caper like the sexy little things they were and the Hostmaster would slide lobes toward them.
The Hostmaster sidled its lobes at them and they fondled and rubbed and crawled under until the reproductives discharged in fountains of pleasurable release.
With a vast flutter of disapproval the Hostmaster settled its lobes in a gloomy pattern, points drooping.