Conjectural.

an estimate based on little information, being little better than a guess.

Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

To be, or act the part of, a guest.

In the manner of a guest.

One of several very small species and varieties of African antelopes, of the genus Cephalophus, as the Cape guevi or kleeneboc (Cephalophus pygm/a); -- called also pygmy antelope.

A genus having only one species: the Chilean nut.

A ludicrously false statment.

A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh.

The eelpout; guffer eel.

See Gurgle.

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.

Same as Guaiac.

A colorless liquid, C6H4.OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, and produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.

Same as Guaiacum.

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.

[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.

Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled.

The reward given to a guide for services.

The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

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.

A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road.

A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.

Without a guide.

a formal rule describing how a situation must be handled; -- used as a direction to administrators from superiors.

a rule or set of rules giving guidance on how to behave in a situation.

A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.

A guide; a director.

A female guide.

A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.

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.

See Gige.

The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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.

Liable to a tax.

A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.

The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.

To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.

Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty.

Free from guile; artless.

A deceiver; one who deludes, or uses guile.

A quotation mark.

One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.

A vat for fermenting liquors.

An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with round ornaments.

Waved or engine-turned.

To behead with the guillotine.

The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.

mentally anguished due to feelings of guilt{3}.

Made sick by consciousness of guilt.

In a guilty manner.

The quality or state of being guilty.

Free from guilt; innocent.

Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment; as, guilty of murder.

Guiltily.

A kind of short blouse or chemisette, worn under a low-necked dress such as a jumper or pinafore.

A district on the west coast of Africa (formerly noted for its export of gold and slaves) after which the Guinea fowl, Guinea grass, Guinea peach, etc., are named.

a native or inhabitant of Guinea{1}.

a kind of bitter stout, also called Guiness' stout; as, a glass of Guinness.

A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for a lace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh, but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called bars or brides.

Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own guise; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.

A person in disguise; a masker; a mummer.

A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.

A primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray of the family Rhinobatidae with a guitar-shaped body.

a musician who plays the guitar.

One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family C/rebid/, allied to the creepers; -- called also quit. See Quit.

The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat. A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.

Pertaining to the gula or throat; as, gular plates. See Illust. of Bird, and Bowfin.

An arctic sea bird.

To swallow greedily; to gulp down.

A flower. See Gold.

See Guilder.

The throat; the gullet.

The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures of escutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for a red color or that which is red.

A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

A brown seaweed (Sargassum bacciferum) with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea.

Full of whirlpools or gulfs.

A cement made in India from sea shells, pulverized and mixed with oil, and spread over a ship's bottom, to prevent the boring of worms.

A glutton.

One of many species of long-winged sea birds of the genus Larus and allied genera.

Act of being gulled.

One who gulls; a deceiver.

An act, or the practice, of gulling; trickery; fraud.

The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

A system of excavating by means of gullets or channels.

Easily gulled; that may be duped.

Foolish; stupid.

To flow noisily.

Excessive appetite; greediness; voracity.

The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.

See Gulf.

Guilt. See Guilt.

Guilty.

Of or pertaining to gules; red.

To exude or form gum; to become gummy.

Any tree that exudes a gum, The black gum (Nyssa multiflora), one of the largest trees of the Southern States, bearing a small blue fruit, the favorite food of the opossum. Most of the large trees become hollow. A tree of the genus Eucalyptus; a eucalypt. See Eucalpytus. The sweet gum tree of the United States (Liquidambar styraciflua), a large and beautiful tree with pointedly lobed leaves and woody burlike fruit. It exudes an aromatic terebinthine juice. The sour gum tree.

an inferior lac produced by lac insects in Madagascar.

A piece of chewing gum in the shape of a ball, usually covered with a colored glaze of sugar. They are often sold in a small, special-purpose coin-operated vending machine called a gumball machine.

A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup. A thick stew made with chicken (chicken gumbo), or seafood (seafood gumbo), thickened with okra or file, and also containing greens and often hot spices; it is particularly popular in Louisiana.

A tropical American tree (Bursera simaruba) yielding a reddish resin used in cements and varnishes.

A small suppurating inflamed spot on the gum.

A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.

Belonging to, or resembling, gumma.

A punch-cutting tool, or machine for deepening and enlarging the spaces between the teeth of a worn saw.

Producing gum; gum-bearing.

The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.

A yellow amorphous mineral, essentially a hydrated oxide of uranium derived from the alteration of uraninite.

Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature.

Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.

Consisting of gum; viscous; adhesive; producing or containing gum; covered with gum or a substance resembling gum.

A dolt; a dunce.

enterprising.

A piece of athletic equipment that protects an athlete's mouth.

A detective; a private eye.

any of various Western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock.

wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum.

To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.

To pursue with the intent to kill.

In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages.

See Gynarchy.