Search the Dictionary

Uninvited; as, unbidden guests. Shak.

run; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room. The stars that usher evening rose. Milton. The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author. Addison.

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

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.