Definition of Guse
Guise, a celebrated French ducal family deriving its title from the
town of Guise in Aisne.
- Wikipedia
Guise (?), n. [OE. guise,
gise, way, manner, F. guise, fr. OHG.
wīsa, G. weise. See Wise,
n.] 1. Customary way of
speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode;
practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own
guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
Chaucer.
The swain replied, "It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise."
Pope.
2. External appearance in manner or dress;
appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
As then the guise was for each gentle
swain. Spenser.
A . . . specter, in a far more terrific guise
than any which
ever yet have overpowered the imagination.
Burke.
3. Cover; cloak; as, under the guise
of patriotism.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.
- External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
- Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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