External appearance; dress; garb. He appeared in the guise of a shepherd. The hypocrite wears the guise of religion. That love which is without dissimulation, wears not the guise of modern liberality.

Manner; mien; cast of behavior. By their guise . Just men they seem.

Custom; mode; practice. The swain replied, it never was our guise, To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.