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- English Word Gudgeon Definition To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
- English Word Gue Definition A sharper; a rogue.
- English Word Gue'vi Definition 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.
- English Word Gueber Definition Alt. of Guebre
- English Word Guebre Definition Same as Gheber.
- English Word Guelderrose' Definition A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.
- English Word Guelf Definition 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.
- English Word Guelfic Definition Of or pertaining to the family or the faction of the Guelphs.
- English Word Guelph Definition Alt. of Guelf
- English Word Guelphic Definition Alt. of Guelfic
- English Word Guenon Definition One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.
- English Word Gueparde Definition The cheetah.
- English Word Guerdon Definition A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense.
- English Word Guerdon Definition To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for.
- English Word Guerdonable Definition Worthy of reward.
- English Word Guerdonless Definition Without reward or guerdon.
- English Word Guereza Definition 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.
- English Word Guerilla Definition See Guerrilla.
- English Word Guerite Definition A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
- English Word Guernsey lily Definition A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.
- English Word Guerrilla Definition An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.
- English Word Guerrilla Definition 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.
- English Word Guerrilla Definition Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.
- English Word Guess Definition To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
- English Word Guess Definition To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
- English Word Guess Definition To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
- English Word Guess Definition To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
- English Word Guess Definition To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.
- English Word Guess Definition To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.
- English Word Guess Definition 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.