Guest \Guest\ (g[e^]st), n. [OE. gest, AS. g[ae]st, gest; akin
   to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. g[aum]st, Dan.
   Gj[aum]st, 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.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Guest \Guest\, v. t.
   To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] --Sylvester.
   
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Guest \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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guest
     adj : staying temporarily; "a visiting foreigner"; "guest
           conductor" [syn: {visiting}, {guest(a)}]
     n 1: a visitor to whom hospitality is extended [syn: {invitee}]
     2: United States journalist (born in England) noted for his
        syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) [syn: {Edgar Guest}, {Edgar  Albert Guest}]
     3: a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
     4: (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a
        computer network [syn: {node}, {client}]