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   Guest (gĕst), n. [OE. gest, AS. gæst, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown.  Cf. Host an army, Hostile.]
   1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
   
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   To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser.
   
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   True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest.
   
   Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.
   
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   2. A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.
   
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   3. (Zool.) (a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite. (b) An inquiline.
   
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   Guest (?), v. t. To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.]  Sylvester.
   
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   Guest, v. i. To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.]
   
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   And tell me, best of princes, who he was
   
   That guested here so late. Chapman.
   
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