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noun

Guest n.

A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. "To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night." "True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."

A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.

(Zool.)

(a)

Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.

(b)

An inquiline.

verb

Guest v. t. To receive or entertain hospitably. (Obs.)

Guest v. i. To be, or act the part of, a guest. (Obs.) "And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late."

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... was entirely of a sickly and corruptive nature to all things whatsoever; but that it was made gentle, and very wholesome and fruitful, by the prophet Elisha. This prophet was familiar with Elijah, and was his successor, who, when he once was the guest of the people at Jericho, and the men of the place had treated him very kindly, he both made them amends as well as the country, by a lasting favor; for he went out of the city to this fountain, and threw into the current an earthen vessel full of salt; after which he ...

— The Wars of the Jews or History of the Destruction of Jerusalem • Flavius Josephus

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... unimportant one. It had been given with an eye more to the menu than to the guest list, which was characteristic of Natalie's mental processes. It was also characteristic that when the final course had been served without mishap, and she gave a sigh of relief before the gesture ...

— Dangerous Days • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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... fund, and for the infirmary. He founded and endowed the leper hospital of St. Julian on the London Road, and established the nunnery of Sopwell (see Appendix) for thirteen sisters. He built the guest hall, the infirmary, and its chapel. He also began to construct a new shrine for the relics of the saint, but after spending L60 on it discontinued the work to give himself breathing time, and never went on with it again. He felt himself constrained to sell some of the ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans - With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey • Thomas Perkins

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... groups of starers who stop every narrow passageway in front of the confectionery-shops of Heidelberg, or amuse themselves of summer-afternoons with their trained dogs, diverting the attention of the temporary guest of "Prince Carl" from the contemplation of the old ruined castle of the Counts-Palatine,—these are but a fraction of the German students. From, among them may be chosen those tight-laced officers who make the court-residences of Europe look like camps; or, as they ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various

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... and extraordinary intercourse. As an example of the luxury of the age, it may be mentioned that when the fifth shogun visited the Kaga baron, the latter had to find a sum of a million ryo to cover the expenses incidental to receiving such a guest. In these circumstances, there arose among the feudatories a habit of levying monetary contributions from wealthy persons in their fiefs, the accommodation thus afforded being repaid by permission to carry swords or by promotion ...

— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi

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