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- English Word Guide Definition 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.
- English Word Guide Definition One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
- English Word Guide Definition 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
- English Word Guide Definition A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
- English Word Guide Definition A grooved director for a probe or knife.
- English Word Guide Definition A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
- English Word Guide Definition 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.
- English Word Guide Definition The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
- English Word Guideboard Definition A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road.
- English Word Guidebook Definition A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
- English Word Guided Definition of Guide
- English Word Guideless Definition Without a guide.
- English Word Guidepost Definition A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
- English Word Guider Definition A guide; a director.
- English Word Guideress Definition A female guide.
- English Word Guidguid Definition A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.
- English Word Guiding Definition of Guide
- English Word Guidon Definition 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.
- English Word Guidon Definition One who carries a flag.
- English Word Guidon Definition One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.
- English Word Guild Definition 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.
- English Word Guild Definition A guildhall.
- English Word Guild Definition A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.
- English Word Guildable Definition Liable to a tax.
- English Word Guilder Definition A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.
- English Word Guildhall Definition The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.
- English Word Guilding Definition The art or practice of overlaying or covering with gold leaf; also, a thin coating or wash of gold, or of that which resembles gold.
- English Word Guilding Definition Gold in leaf, powder, or liquid, for application to any surface.
- English Word Guilding Definition Any superficial coating or appearance, as opposed to what is solid and genuine.
- English Word Guile Definition Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.