\Guest\, n. [OE. gest, AS. g[ae]st, gest; akin to OS., D.,
& G. gust, Icel gestr, Sw. g["a]st, Dan. Gj["a]st, Goth.
gast, 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.
         To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night.
                                               --Spenser.
         True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest.
         Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. --Pope.

\Guest\, v. t.
To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] --Sylvester.

\Guest\, v. i.
To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.]
      And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested
      here so late.                            --Chapman.

\Guest\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without
    compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
(b) An inquiline.