Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter G - Page 50
Gubernation (n.) The act of governing; government.
Gubernative (a.) Governing.
Gubernatorial (a.) Pertaining to a governor, or to government.
Gudgeon (n.) A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons.
Gudgeon (n.) What may be got without skill or merit.
Gudgeon (n.) A person easily duped or cheated.
Gudgeon (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.
Gudgeon (n.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.
Gudgeon (v. t.) To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
Gue (n.) A sharper; a rogue.
Gueber (n.) Alt. of Guebre.
Guebre (n.) Same as Gheber.
Guelderrose' (n.) A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.
Guelph (n.) Alt. of Guelf.
Guelf (n.) 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.
Guelphic (a.) Alt. of Guelfic.
Guelfic (a.) Of or pertaining to the family or the faction of the Guelphs.
Guenon (n.) One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.
Gueparde (n.) The cheetah.
Guerdon (n.) A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense.
Guerdon (n.) To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for.
Guerdonable (a.) Worthy of reward.
Guerdonless (a.) Without reward or guerdon.
Guereza (n.) 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.
Guerilla (a.) See Guerrilla.
Guerite (n.) A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.
Guernsey lily () A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.
Guerrilla (n.) 【古】游擊戰；游擊隊（員） An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war. [syn: {guerilla}].
Guerrilla (n.) 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.
Note: The term guerrilla is the diminutive of the Spanish word guerra, war, and means petty war, that is, war carried on by detached parties; generally in the mountains. . . . A guerrilla party means, an irregular band of armed men, carrying on an irregular war, not being able, according to their character as a guerrilla party, to carry on what the law terms a regular war. -- F. Lieder.
Guerrilla (a.) 游擊隊的 Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.
Guerrilla (n.) A member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment [syn: {guerrilla}, {guerilla}, {irregular}, {insurgent}].
Guerrilla (n.) [ C ] (Also guerilla) 遊擊隊員 A member of an unofficial military group that is trying to change the government by making sudden, unexpected attacks on the official army forces.
// A small band of guerrillas has blown up a train in the mountains.
// Guerrilla warfare.
Guerrilla (a.) 出奇制勝的；用奇招的 Using unusual methods to get attention for your ideas, products, etc..
// Guerrilla marketing.
Guessed (imp. & p. p.) of Guess.
Guessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guess.
Guess (v. t.) To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
Guess (v. t.) To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
Guess (v. t.) To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
Guess (v. t.) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
Guess (v. t.) To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.
Guess (v. i.) To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.
Guess (n.) 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.
Guessable (a.) Capable of being guessed.
Guesser (n.) One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.
Guessingly (adv.) By way of conjecture.
Guessive (a.) Conjectural.
Guess rope () A guess warp.
Guess warp () A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
Guesswork (n.) Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
Guest (n.) A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.
To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night. -- Spenser.
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest.
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. -- Pope.
Guest (n.) A lodger or a boarder at a hotel, lodging house, or boarding house.
Guest (n.) (Zool.) (a) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
Guest (n.) (Zool.) (b) An inquiline.
Guest (n.) A visitor to whom hospitality is extended [syn: guest, invitee].
Guest (n.) United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) [syn: Guest, Edgar Guest, Edgar Albert Guest].
Guest (n.) A customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.
Guest (n.) (Computer science) Any computer that is hooked up to a computer network [syn: node, client, guest].
Guest (v. t.) To receive or entertain hospitably. [Obs.] -- Sylvester.
Guest (v. i.) To be, or act the part of, a guest. [Obs.]
And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late. -- Chapman.
Guest rope, () (Naut.) The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Guestwise (adv.) In the manner of a guest.
Gue'vi (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Compare: Kleeneboc
Kleeneboc (n.) (Zool.) An antelope ({Cerphalopus pygm[ae]us), found in South Africa. It is of very small size, being but one foot high at the shoulder. It is remarkable for its activity, and for its mild and timid disposition. Called also guevi, and pygmy antelope.
Guffaw (n.) A loud burst of laughter; a horse laugh. "A hearty low guffaw." -- Carlyle.
Guffer (n.) (Zool.) The eelpout; guffer eel.
Guggle (v. i.) See Gurgle.
Guggle (v.) Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle].
Guggle (v.) Make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle
Guggle (v.) Drink from a flask with a gurgling sound [syn: guggle, gurgle].
Guhr (n.) [G.] 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. -- P. Cleaveland.
Guiac (n.) Same as Guaiac.
Guiacol (n.) (Chem.) A colorless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.
Guiacum (n.) Same as Guaiacum.
Guib (n.) 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.
Guicowar (n.) The title of the sovereign of Guzerat, in Western India; -- generally called the Guicowar of Baroda, which is the capital of the country.
GUID, () Global[ly] Unique IDentifier (COM).
Guidable (a.) Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled.
Guidage (n.) The reward given to a guide for services.
Guidage (n.) Guidance; lead; direction.
Guidance (n.) The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
Guidance (n.) [ U ] (B2) 指導；引導 Help and advice about how to do something or about how to deal with problems connected with your work, education, or personal relationships.
// I've always looked to my father for guidance in these matters.
// Careers guidance.
Guidance (n.) [ U ] （導彈或火箭的）制導，導引 The process of directing the flight of a missile or rocket.
// A missile guidance system.
Guided (imp. & p. p.) of Guide.
Guiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Guide.
Guide (v. t.) To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
Guide (v. t.) To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
Guide (v. t.) 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.
Guide (v. t.) One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
Guide (v. t.) 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.
Guide (v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
Guide (v. t.) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
Guide (v. t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
Guide (v. t.) 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.
Guideboard (n.) A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road.
Guidebook (n.) A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
Guideless (a.) Without a guide.
Guidepost (n.) A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
Guider (n.) A guide; a director.
Guideress (n.) A female guide.
Guidguid (n.) A South American ant bird of the genus Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.
Guidon (v. t.) 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.
Guidon (v. t.) One who carries a flag.
Guidon (v. t.) One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land.
Gulge (n.) See Gige.
Guild (v. t.) 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.
Guild (v. t.) A guildhall.
Guild (v. t.) A religious association or society, organized for charitable purposes or for assistance in parish work.
Guildable (a.) Liable to a tax.
Guilder (n.) A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.
Guildhall (n.) The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.
Guile (n.) Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Guile (n.) To disguise or conceal; to deceive or delude.
Guile (n.) The use of clever and usually dishonest methods to achieve something.
Guile (n.) Deceitful cunning : duplicity.
Guile (n.) (Obsolete) : Stratagem, trick.
Guileful (a.) Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. -- {Guile"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Guile"ful*ness}, n.
Guilefully (adv.) In a guileful manner.
Guilefulness (n.) (Uncountable) The quality of being guileful; cunning or deceit.
Guileless (a.) Free from guile; artless. -- {Guile"less*ly}, adv. {Guile"less*ness}, n.
Guiler (n.) A deceiver; one who deludes, or uses guile. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Guillemet (n.) A quotation mark. [R.]
Guillemot (n.) One of several northern sea birds, allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are expert divers and swimmers.
Note: The common guillemots, or murres, belong to the genus {Uria} (as {U. troile}); the black or foolish guillemot ({Cepphus grylle}, formerly {Uria grylle}), is called also {sea pigeon} and {eligny}. See {Murre}.
Guillemot (n.) Small black or brown speckled auks of northern seas.