Usually means: Appearance often concealing the truth.
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  1. Guise, guise: Merriam-Webster
  2. guise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. guise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Guise, guise: Wordnik
  7. guise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Guise, guise: Wiktionary
  9. guise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. guise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. guise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Guise, guise: Dictionary.com
  13. guise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. guise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Guise (disambiguation), Guise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Guise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. guise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. guise: Rhymezone
  19. Guise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. guise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. guise: FreeDictionary.org
  22. guise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Guise: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. guise: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guise: Legal dictionary

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  1. Guise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A customary way of speaking or acting; a fashion, a manner, a practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)
noun:  An external appearance in manner or dress; an appropriate indication or expression; a garb; a shape.
noun:  A misleading appearance; a cover, a cloak.
verb:  (archaic, transitive) To dress.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To act as a guiser; to go dressed up in a parade etc.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of guys. [(colloquial) Used to address a group of people regardless of gender.]

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