guesten

present singular third person guestens · participle present guestening · participle past guestened · past guestened

1. Northern EnglandScotlanddialectaltransitiveTo entertain as a guest; to lodge as a guest.

   But Toppet Hob o' the Main had guestened in my house by chance.

   1882, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 131, page 490

   4 more examples

   Here have I come this length, trusting the godly Earl of Murray would be on his march to the Borders, for he was to have guestened with the Baron of Avenel; and instead of that comes news that he has gone westlandways about some tuilzie in Ayrshire.

   1830, Walter Scott, Waverley Novels: The Monastery, volume 19, page 285

   This stone has the But as there is no longer a chamber to “guesten" peculiar interest of having furnished the key by within, the adventure is nought, and the prophecy which the succession of stations became identified fulfilled.

   1861, Once a Week, page 111

   If hospitality be reckoned among the fine arts and moral virtues, to "guesten" aright is a saving social grace.

   1924, Virginia Terhune Van de Water, Present Day Etiquette: Including Social Forms, page 151

   Hence came it that the ports of Rome were opened (At our behests) to give you guestening.

   2013, Barnabe Barnes, The Devil's Charter, page 36