GUERDON — GUNSMITHERY

GUERDON — GUNSMITHERY NWAD GUERDON.1

GUERDON, n. ger’don. A reward; requital; recompense; in a good or bad sense. NWAD GUERDON.1

GUERDON, v.t. To reward. NWAD GUERDON.2

GUERDONLESS, a. Unrecompensed. NWAD GUERDONLESS.1

GUESS, v.t. ges. [L. conjicio; Eng. to gush.] NWAD GUESS.1

1. To conjecture; to form an opinion without certain principles or means of knowledge; to judge at random, either of a present unknown fact, or of a future fact. NWAD GUESS.2

First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess. NWAD GUESS.3

2. To judge or form an opinion from some reasons that render a thing probable, but fall short of sufficient evidence. From slight circumstances or occasional expressions, we guess an author’s meaning. NWAD GUESS.4

3. To hit upon by accident. NWAD GUESS.5

GUESS, v.i. To conjecture; to judge at random. We do not know which road to take, but we must guess at it. NWAD GUESS.6

GUESS, n. Conjecture; judgment without any certain evidence or grounds. NWAD GUESS.7

A poet must confess NWAD GUESS.8

His arts like physic, but a happy guess. NWAD GUESS.9

GUESSED, pp. Conjectured; divined. NWAD GUESSED.1

GUESSER, n. One who guesses; a conjecturer; one who judges or gives an opinion without certain means of knowing. NWAD GUESSER.1

GUESSING, ppr. Conjecturing; judging without certain evidence, or grounds of opinion. NWAD GUESSING.1

GUESSINGLY, adv. By way of conjecture. NWAD GUESSINGLY.1

GUEST, n. gest. [L. visito; Eng. visit.] NWAD GUEST.1

1. A stranger; one who comes from a distance, and takes lodgings at a place, either for a night or for a longer time. NWAD GUEST.2

2. A visitor; a stranger or friend, entertained in the house or at the table of another, whether by invitation or otherwise. NWAD GUEST.3

The wedding was furnished with guests. Matthew 22:10. NWAD GUEST.4

GUEST-CHAMBER, n. An apartment appropriated to the entertainment of guests. Mark 14:14. NWAD GUEST-CHAMBER.1

GUEST-RITE, n. Office due to a guest. NWAD GUEST-RITE.1

GUEST-ROPE, GUESS-ROPE, n. A rope to tow with, or to make fast a boat. NWAD GUEST-ROPE.1

GUESTWISE, adv. In the manner of a guest. NWAD GUESTWISE.1

GUGGLE. [See Gurgle.] NWAD GUGGLE.1

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. NWAD GUHR.1

GUIDABLE, a. That may be guided or governed by counsel. NWAD GUIDABLE.1

GUIDAGE, n. [See Guide.] The reward given to a guide for services. [Little used.] NWAD GUIDAGE.1

GUIDANCE, n. [See Guide.] The act of guiding; direction; government; a leading. Submit to the guidance of age and wisdom. NWAD GUIDANCE.1

GUIDE, v.t. gide. NWAD GUIDE.1

1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; as, to guide an enemy or a traveler, who is not acquainted with the road or course. NWAD GUIDE.2

The meek will he guide in judgment. Psalm 25:9. NWAD GUIDE.3

2. To direct; to order. NWAD GUIDE.4

He will guide his affairs with discretion. Psalm 112:5. NWAD GUIDE.5

3. To influence; to give direction to. Men are guided by their interest, or supposed interest. NWAD GUIDE.6

4. To instruct and direct. Let parents guide their children to virtue, dignity and happiness. NWAD GUIDE.7

5. To direct; to regulate and manage; to superintend. NWAD GUIDE.8

I will that the younger women marry, bear children, and guide the house. 1 Timothy 5:14. NWAD GUIDE.9

GUIDE, n. NWAD GUIDE.10

1. A person who leads or directs another in his way or course; a conductor. The army followed the guide. The traveler may be deceived by his guide. NWAD GUIDE.11

2. One who directs another in his conduct or course of life. NWAD GUIDE.12

He will be our guide, even unto death. Psalm 48:14. NWAD GUIDE.13

3. A director; a regulator; that which leads or conducts. Experience is one of our best guides. NWAD GUIDE.14

GUIDED, pp. Led; conducted; directed in the way; instructed and directed. NWAD GUIDED.1

GUIDELESS, a. Destitute of a guide; wanting a director. NWAD GUIDELESS.1

GUIDEPOST, n. A post at the forks of a road, for directing travelers the way. NWAD GUIDEPOST.1

GUIDER, n. A guide; one who guides or directs. NWAD GUIDER.1

GUIDING, ppr. Leading; conducting; directing; superintending. NWAD GUIDING.1

GUIDON, n. The flag or standard of a troop of cavalry; or the standard-bearer. NWAD GUIDON.1

GUILD, n. gild. In England, a society, fraternity or company, associated for some purpose, particularly for carrying on commerce. The merchant-guilds of our ancestors, answer to our modern corporations. They were licensed by the king, and governed by laws and orders of their own. Hence the name Guild-hall, the great court of judicature in London. NWAD GUILD.1

GUILDABLE, a. Liable to a tax. NWAD GUILDABLE.1

GUILDER, n. [See Gilder.] NWAD GUILDER.1

GUILE, n. gile. Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense. NWAD GUILE.1

We may, with more successful hope, resolve NWAD GUILE.2

To wage by force or guile eternal war. NWAD GUILE.3

Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John 1:47. NWAD GUILE.4

GUILE, v.t. To disguise craftily. NWAD GUILE.5

GUILEFUL, a. Cunning; drafty; artful; wily; deceitful; insidious; as a guileful person. NWAD GUILEFUL.1

1. Treacherous; deceitful. NWAD GUILEFUL.2

2. Intended to deceive; as guileful words. NWAD GUILEFUL.3

GUILEFULLY, adv. Artfully; insidiously; treacherously. NWAD GUILEFULLY.1

GUILEFULNESS, n. Deceit, secret treachery. NWAD GUILEFULNESS.1

GUILDLESS, a. Free from guile or deceit; artless; frank; sincere; honest. NWAD GUILDLESS.1

GUILELESSNESS, n. Simplicity; freedom from guile. NWAD GUILELESSNESS.1

GUILER, n. One who betrays into danger by insidious arts. [Not used.] NWAD GUILER.1

GUILLEMOT, n. A water fowl of the genus Colymbus, and order of ansers. It is found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America. NWAD GUILLEMOT.1

GUILLOTIN, n. An engine or machine for beheading persons at a stroke. NWAD GUILLOTIN.1

GUILLOTIN, v.t. To behead with the guillotin. NWAD GUILLOTIN.2

GUILLS, n. A plant, the corn marigold. NWAD GUILLS.1

GUILT, n. gilt. NWAD GUILT.1

1. Criminality; that state of a moral agent which results from his actual commission of a crime or offense, knowing it to be a crime, or violation of law. To constitute guilt there must be a moral agent enjoying freedom of will, and capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, and a wilful or intentional violation of a known law, or rule of duty. The guilt of a person exists, as soon as the crime is committed; but to evince it to others, it must be proved by confession, or conviction in due course of law. Guilt renders a person a debtor to the law, as it binds him to pay a penalty in money or suffering. Guilt therefore implies both criminality and liableness to punishment. Guilt may proceed either from a positive act or breach of law, or from voluntary neglect of known duty. NWAD GUILT.2

2. Criminality in a political or civil view; exposure to forfeiture or other penalty. NWAD GUILT.3

A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade. NWAD GUILT.4

3. Crime; offense. NWAD GUILT.5

GUILTILY, adv. In a manner to incur guilt, not innocently. NWAD GUILTILY.1

GUILTINESS, n. The state of being guilty; wickedness; criminality; guilt. NWAD GUILTINESS.1

GUILTLESS, a. Free from guilt, crime or offense; innocent. NWAD GUILTLESS.1

The Lord will not hold him guiltless, that taketh his name in vain. Exodus 20:7. NWAD GUILTLESS.2

1. Not produced by the slaughter of animals. NWAD GUILTLESS.3

But from the mountain’s grassy side NWAD GUILTLESS.4

A guiltless feast I bring. NWAD GUILTLESS.5

GUILTLESSLY, adv. Without guilt; innocently. NWAD GUILTLESSLY.1

GUILTLESSNESS, n. Innocence; freedom from guilt or crime. NWAD GUILTLESSNESS.1

GUILT-SICK, a. Diseased in consequence of guilt. NWAD GUILT-SICK.1

GUILTY, a. gilt’y. Criminal; having knowingly committed a crime or offense, or having violated a law by an overt act or by neglect, and by that act or neglect, being liable to punishment; not innocent. It may be followed by of; as, to be guilty of theft or arson. NWAD GUILTY.1

Nor he, nor you, were guilty of the strife. NWAD GUILTY.2

1. Wicked; corrupt; sinful; as a guilty world. NWAD GUILTY.3

2. Conscious. NWAD GUILTY.4

In Scripture, to be guilty of death, is to have committed a crime which deserves death. Matthew 26:66. NWAD GUILTY.5

To be guilty of the body and blood of Christ, is to be chargeable with the crime of crucifying Christ afresh, and offering indignity to his person and righteousness, represented by the symbols of the Lord’s supper. 1 Corinthians 11:27. NWAD GUILTY.6

GUINEA, n. gin’ny. Formerly, a gold coin in Great Britain of the value of twenty one shillings sterling, equal to $4.66 2/3rds, American money. NWAD GUINEA.1

GUINEA-DROPPER, n. One who cheats by dropping guineas. NWAD GUINEA-DROPPER.1

GUINEA-HEN, n. The Numida meleagris, a fowl of the gallinaceous order, a native of Africa. It is larger than the common domestic hen, and has a kind of colored fleshy horn on each side of the head. Its color is a dark gray, beautifully variegated with small white spots. NWAD GUINEA-HEN.1

GUINEA-PEPPER, n. A plant, the Capsicum. The pods of some species are used for pickles. NWAD GUINEA-PEPPER.1

GUINEA-PIG, n. In zoology, a quadruped of the genus Cavia or cavy, found in Brazil. It is about seven inches in length, and of a white color, variegated with spots of orange and black. NWAD GUINEA-PIG.1

GUINIAD, GWINIAD, n. The whiting, a fish of the salmon or trout kind, found in many lakes in Europe and in Hudson’s bay. It is gregarious, and may be taken in vast numbers at a draught. NWAD GUINIAD.1

GUISE, n. gize. NWAD GUISE.1

1. External appearance; dress; garb. He appeared in the guise of a shepherd. The hypocrite wears the guise of religion. NWAD GUISE.2

That love which is without dissimulation, wears not the guise of modern liberality. NWAD GUISE.3

2. Manner; mien; cast of behavior. NWAD GUISE.4

By their guise NWAD GUISE.5

Just men they seem. NWAD GUISE.6

3. Custom; mode; practice. NWAD GUISE.7

The swain replied, it never was our guise, NWAD GUISE.8

To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. NWAD GUISE.9

GUISER, n. gi’zer. A person in disguise; a mummer who goes about at Christmas. NWAD GUISER.1

GUITAR, n. git`ar. [L. cithara.] A stringed instrument of music; in England and the United States, used chiefly by ladies, but in Spain and Italy, much used by men. NWAD GUITAR.1

GULA, GOLA, n. An ogee or wavy member in a building; the cymatium. NWAD GULA.1

GULAUND, n. An aquatic fowl of a size between a duck and a goose; the breast and belly white; the head mallard green. It inhabits Iceland. NWAD GULAUND.1

GULCH, n. A glutton; a swallowing or devouring. [Not used.] NWAD GULCH.1

GULCH, v.t. To swallow greedily. [Not used.] NWAD GULCH.2

GULES, n. In heraldry, a term denoting red, intended perhaps to represent courage, animation or hardihood. NWAD GULES.1

GULF, n. NWAD GULF.1

1. A recess in the ocean from the general line of the shore into the land, or a tract of water extending from the ocean or a sea into the land, between two points or promontories; a large bay; as the gulf of Mexico; the gulf of Venice; the gulf of Finland. A gulf and a bay differ only in extent. We apply bay to a large or small recess of the sea, as the bay of Biscay, the bay of Fundy; but gulf is applied only to a large extent of water. NWAD GULF.2

2. An abyss; a deep place in the earth; as the gulf of Avernus. NWAD GULF.3

3. A whirlpool; an absorbing eddy. NWAD GULF.4

4. Any thing insatiable. NWAD GULF.5

GULF-INDENTED, a. Indented with gulfs or bays. NWAD GULF-INDENTED.1

GULFY, a. Full of whirlpools or gulfs; as a gulfy sea. NWAD GULFY.1

GULL, v.t. To deceive; to cheat; to mislead by deception; to trick; to defraud. NWAD GULL.1

The vulgar, gull’d into rebellion, armed. NWAD GULL.2

GULL, n. A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud. NWAD GULL.3

1. One easily cheated. NWAD GULL.4

GULL, n. A marine fowl of the genus Larus, and order of ansers. There are several species. NWAD GULL.5

GULLCATCHER, n. A cheat; a man who cheats or entraps silly people. NWAD GULLCATCHER.1

GULLED, pp. Cheated; deceived; defrauded. NWAD GULLED.1

GULLER, n. A cheat; an imposter. NWAD GULLER.1

GULLERY, n. Cheat. [Not used.] NWAD GULLERY.1

GULLET, n. [L. gula.] The passage in the neck of an animal by which food and liquor are taken into the stomach; the esophagus. NWAD GULLET.1

1. A stream or lake. [Not used.] NWAD GULLET.2

GULLIED, pp. Having a hollow worn by water. NWAD GULLIED.1

GULLISH, n. Foolish; stupid. [Not in use.] NWAD GULLISH.1

GULLISHNESS, n. Foolishness; stupidity. [Not in use.] NWAD GULLISHNESS.1

GULLY, n. A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water. NWAD GULLY.1

GULLY, v.t. To wear a hollow channel in the earth. NWAD GULLY.2

GULLY, v.i. To run with noise. [Not in use.] NWAD GULLY.3

GULLYHOLE, n. An opening where gutters empty their contents into the subterraneous sewer. NWAD GULLYHOLE.1

GULOSITY, n. [L. gulosus, from gula, the gullet.] NWAD GULOSITY.1

Greediness; voracity; excessive appetite for food. [Little used.] NWAD GULOSITY.2

GULP, v.t. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts. NWAD GULP.1

To gulp up, to throw up from the throat or stomach; to disgorge. NWAD GULP.2

GULP, n. A swallow, or as much as is swallowed at once. NWAD GULP.3

1. A disgorging. NWAD GULP.4

GULPH. [See Gulf.] NWAD GULPH.1

GUM, n. The hard fleshy substance of the jaws which invests the teeth. NWAD GUM.1

GUM, n. [L. gummi.] The mucilage of vegetables; a concrete juice which exudes through the bark of trees, and thickens on the surface. It is soluble in water, to which it gives a viscous and adhesive quality. It is insoluble in alcohol, and coagulates in weak acids. When dry, it is transparent and brittle, not easily pulverized, and of an insipid or slightly saccharine taste. Gum differs from resin in several particulars, but custom has inaccurately given the name of gum to several resins and gum-resins, as gum-copal. gum-sandarach, gum-ammoniac, and others. The true gums are gumarabic, gum-senegal, gum-tragacanth, and the gums of the peach, plum and cherry trees, etc. NWAD GUM.2

Gum-elastic, or Elastic-gum, [caoutchouc,] is a singular substance, obtained from a tree in America by incision. It is a white juice, which, when dry, becomes very tough and elastic, and is used for bottles, surgical instruments, etc. NWAD GUM.3

GUM, v.t. To smear with gum. NWAD GUM.4

1. To unite by a viscous substance. NWAD GUM.5

GUM-ARABIC, n. A gum which flows from the acacia, in Arabia, Egypt, etc. NWAD GUM-ARABIC.1

GUM-BOIL, n. A boil on the gum. NWAD GUM-BOIL.1

GUMLAC, n. The produce of an insect which deposits its eggs on the branches of a tree called bihar, in Assam, a country bordering on Tibet, and elsewhere in Asia. [See Lac.] NWAD GUMLAC.1

GUM-RESIN, n. [See Resin.] A mixed juice of plants, consisting of resin and an extractive matter, which has been taken for a gummy substance. The gum-resins do not flow naturally from plants, but are mostly extracted by incision, in the form of white, yellow or red emulsive fluids, which dry and consolidate. The most important species are olibanum, galbanum, scammony, gamboge, euphorbium, assafetida, aloes, myrrh, and gum-ammoniac. NWAD GUM-RESIN.1

Gum-resins are natural combinations of gum and resin. NWAD GUM-RESIN.2

Gum-resins are composed of a gum or extractive matter, and a body intermediate between oil and resin; to which last they owe their peculiar properties. NWAD GUM-RESIN.3

GUM-SENEGAL, n. A gum resembling gum-arabic, brought from the country of the river Senegal in Africa. NWAD GUM-SENEGAL.1

GUM-TRAGACANTH, n. The gum of a thorny shrub of that name, in Crete, Asia and Greece. NWAD GUM-TRAGACANTH.1

GUMMINESS, n. The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness. NWAD GUMMINESS.1

1. Accumulation of gum. NWAD GUMMINESS.2

GUMMOSITY, n. The nature of gum; gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality. NWAD GUMMOSITY.1

GUMMOUS, a. Of the nature or quality of gum; viscous; adhesive. NWAD GUMMOUS.1

GUMMY, a. Consisting of gum; of the nature of gum; viscous; adhesive. NWAD GUMMY.1

1. Productive of gum. NWAD GUMMY.2

2. Covered with gum or viscous matter. NWAD GUMMY.3

GUMP, n. A foolish person; a dolt. [Vulgar.] NWAD GUMP.1

GUMPTION, n. Care; skill; understanding. [Vulgar.] NWAD GUMPTION.1

GUN, n. An instrument consisting of a barrel or tube of iron or other metal fixed in a stock, from which balls, shot or other deadly weapons are discharged by the explosion of gunpowder. The larger species of guns are called cannon; and the smaller species are called muskets, carbines, fowling pieces, etc. But one species of fire-arms, the pistol, is never called a gun. NWAD GUN.1

GUN, v.i. To shoot. NWAD GUN.2

GUN-BARREL, n. The barrel or tube of a gun. NWAD GUN-BARREL.1

GUNBOAT, n. A boat or small vessel fitted to carry a gun or two at the bow. NWAD GUNBOAT.1

GUN-CARRIAGE, n. A wheel carriage for bearing and moving cannon. NWAD GUN-CARRIAGE.1

GUNNEL. [See Gunwale.] NWAD GUNNEL.1

GUNNER, n. One skilled in the use of guns; a cannoneer; an officer appointed to manage artillery. The gunner of a ship of war has the charge of the ammunition and artillery, and his duty is to keep the latter in good order, and to teach the men the exercise of the guns. NWAD GUNNER.1

GUNNERY, n. The act of charging, directing and firing guns, as cannon, mortars and the like. Gunnery is founded on the science of projectiles. NWAD GUNNERY.1

GUNNING, n. The act of hunting or shooting game with a gun. NWAD GUNNING.1

GUNPOWDER, n. A composition of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, mixed and reduced to a fine powder, then granulated and dried. It is used in artillery, in shooting game, in blasting rocks, etc. NWAD GUNPOWDER.1

GUNROOM, n. In ships, an apartment on the after end of the lower gun-deck, occupied by the gunner, or by the lieutenants as a mess-room. NWAD GUNROOM.1