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zed by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect. Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. Shak. The title of these lords was vicious in its origin. Burke. A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. De Quincey.

One who visits; a guest; a visitor. When the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger. South.

Reward; requital; guerdon. [Obs. or Scot.] Wit and wisdom is good warysoun. Proverbs of Hending.

The guelder-rose.

rtainment, or company; as, a welcome visitor. When the glad soul is made Heaven's welcome guest. Cowper.

m innocent. "All this while." Shak. This mighty queen may no while endure. Chaucer. [Some guest that] hath outside his welcome while, And tells the jest without the smile. Coleridge. I will go forth and breathe the air a while. Longfellow.

rouse. (Zoöl.) (a) The capercailzie. (b) The spruce partridge. See under Spruce. -- Wood guest (Zoöl.), the ringdove. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wood hen. (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of Old World short-winged rails of the genus Ocydromus, including the weka and allied species.

thy that thou shouldst not know More happiness. Milton. The lodging is well worthy of the guest. Dryden.

To twist; to distort; to writhe; to wrest; to vex. Sir P. Sidney. Guests by hundreds, not one caring If the dear host's neck were wried. R. Browning.

A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador.

on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. Chaucer.

The wood of an East Indian tree of the genus Guettarda.