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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Guise \Guise\, n. [OE. guise, gise, way manner, F. guise, fr
OHG. w[=i]sa, 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
guise
n : an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of
friendship he betrayed them" [syn: {pretence}, {pretext}]
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