Gubernation (n.) The act of governing; government
Gubernative (a.) Governing.
Gubernatorial (a.) Pertaining to a governor, or to government.
Gudgeon (n.) A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.
Gudgeon (n.) What may be got without skill or merit.
Gudgeon (n.) A person easily duped or cheated.
Gudgeon (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.
Gudgeon (n.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
Gudgeon (v. t.) To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
Gue (n.) A sharper; a rogue.
Gueber (n.) Alt. of Guebre
Guebre (n.) Same as Gheber.
Guelderrose' (n.) A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.
Guelph (n.) Alt. of Guelf
Guelf (n.) One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.
Guelphic (a.) Alt. of Guelfic
Guelfic (a.) Of or pertaining to the family or the faction of the Guelphs.
Guenon (n.) One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.
Gueparde (n.) The cheetah.
Guerdon (n.) A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense.
Guerdon (n.) To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for.
Guerdonable (a.) Worthy of reward.
Guerdonless (a.) Without reward or guerdon.
Guereza (n.) A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.
Guerilla (a.) See Guerrilla.
Guerite (n.) A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
Guernsey lily () A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.
Guerrilla (n.) An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.
Guerrilla (n.) One who carries on, or assists in carrying on, irregular warfare; especially, a member of an independent band engaged in predatory excursions in war time.
Guerrilla (a.) Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.
Guessed (imp. & p. p.) of Guess
Guessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guess
Guess (v. t.) To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
Guess (v. t.) To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
Guess (v. t.) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
Guess (v. t.) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
Guess (v. t.) To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.
Guess (v. i.) To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.
Guess (n.) An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.
Guessable (a.) Capable of being guessed.
Guesser (n.) One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.
Guessingly (adv.) By way of conjecture.
Guessive (a.) Conjectural.
Guess rope () A guess warp.
Guess warp () A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
Guesswork (n.) Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
Guest (n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
Guest (v. t.) To receive or entertain hospitably.
Guest (v. i.) To be, or act the part of, a guest.
Guest rope () The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom.
Guestwise (adv.) In the manner of a guest.
Gue'vi (n.) One of several very small species and varieties of African antelopes, of the genus Cephalophus, as the Cape guevi or kleeneboc (Cephalophus pygmaea); -- called also pygmy antelope.
Guffaw (n.) A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.
Guffer (n.) The eelpout; guffer eel.
Guggle (v. i.) See Gurgle.
Guhr (n.) A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher.
Guiac (n.) Same as Guaiac.
Guiacol (n.) A colorless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.
Guiacum (n.) Same as Guaiacum.
Guib (n.) A West African antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), curiously marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground, and hence called harnessed antelope; -- called also guiba.
Guicowar (n.) [Mahratta g/ekw/r, prop., a cowherd.] The title of the sovereign of Guzerat, in Western India; -- generally called the Guicowar of Baroda, which is the capital of the country.
Guidable (a.) Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled.
Guidage (n.) The reward given to a guide for services.
Guidage (n.) Guidance; lead; direction.
Guidance (n.) The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
Guided (imp. & p. p.) of Guide
Guiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guide
Guide (v. t.) To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
Guide (v. t.) To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
Guide (v. t.) A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
Guide (v. t.) One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
Guide (v. t.) Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator
Guide (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
Guide (v. t.) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
Guide (v. t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
Guide (v. t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
Guideboard (n.) A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road.
Guidebook (n.) A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
Guideless (a.) Without a guide.
Guidepost (n.) A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
Guider (n.) A guide; a director.
Guideress (n.) A female guide.
Guidguid (n.) A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.
Guidon (v. t.) A small flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each company of cavalry has a guidon.
Guidon (v. t.) One who carries a flag.
Guidon (v. t.) One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.
Gulge (n.) See Gige.
Guild (v. t.) An association of men belonging to the same class, or engaged in kindred pursuits, formed for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.
Guild (v. t.) A guildhall.
Guild (v. t.) A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.
Guildable (a.) Liable to a tax.
Guilder (n.) A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.
Guildhall (n.) The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.
Guile (n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Guile (n.) To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
Guileful (a.) Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty.
Guileless (a.) Free from guile; artless.
Guilor (n.) A deceiver; one who deludes, or uses guile.
Guillemet (n.) A quotation mark.
Guillemot (n.) One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.