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  • English Word Guy Definition A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which holds in place the end of a boom, spar, or yard in a ship; a chain or wire rope connecting a suspension bridge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.
  • English Word Guy Definition To steady or guide with a guy.
  • English Word Guy Definition A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot.
  • English Word Guy Definition A person of queer looks or dress.
  • English Word Guy Definition To fool; to baffle; to make (a person) an object of ridicule.
  • English Word Guyed Definition of Guy
  • English Word Guying Definition of Guy
  • English Word Guyle Definition To guile.
  • English Word Guze Definition A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.
  • English Word Guzzle Definition To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
  • English Word Guzzle Definition To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
  • English Word Guzzle Definition An insatiable thing or person.
  • English Word Guzzled Definition of Guzzle
  • English Word Guzzler Definition An immoderate drinker.
  • English Word Guzzling Definition of Guzzle
  • English Word Gwiniad Definition A fish (Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly.
  • English Word Gy-rose Definition Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.
  • English Word Gyall Definition See Gayal.
  • English Word Gyb Definition Alt. of Gybe
  • English Word Gybe Definition See Jib.
  • English Word Gybe Definition See Gibe.
  • English Word Gybe Definition To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.
  • English Word Gybed Definition of Gybe
  • English Word Gybing Definition of Gybe
  • English Word Gye Definition To guide; to govern.
  • English Word Gyle Definition Fermented wort used for making vinegar.
  • English Word Gymnal Definition Same as Gimmal.
  • English Word Gymnasia Definition of Gymnasium
  • English Word Gymnasiarch Definition An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.
  • English Word Gymnasium Definition A place or building where athletic exercises are performed; a school for gymnastics.