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   Guise , n. [OE. guise, gise, way, manner, F. guise, fr. OHG. wīsa, G. weise. See Wise, n.]
   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.
   
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   The swain replied, “It never was our guise
   To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.”
   Pope.
   
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   External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
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   As then the guise was for each gentle swain.
   Spenser.
   
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   A . . . specter, in a far more terrific guise than any which
   ever yet have overpowered the imagination.
   Burke.
   
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   Cover; cloak; as, under the guise of patriotism.
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