Noah Webster
Guiniad
GUIN'IAD
GUISE, noun gize.
1. 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.
2. Manner; mien; cast of behavior.
By their guise
Just men they seem.
3. Custom; mode; practice.
The swain replied, it never was our guise,
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.