GUIDING
GUIDING, participle present tense Leading; conducting; directing; superintending.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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GUIDON
GUIDON, noun The flag or standard of a troop of cavalry; or the standard-bearer.
GUILD
GUILD, noun gild. In England, a society, fraternity or company, associated for some purpose, particularly for carrying on commerce. The merchant-guilds of our ancestors, answer ...
GUILDER
GUILDER, noun [See Gilder.]
GUILDLESS
GUILDLESS, adjective Free from guile or deceit; artless; frank; sincere; honest.
GUILE
GUILE, noun gile. Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit; usually in a bad sense.We may, with more successful hope, resolveTo wage by force or guile eternal war.Behold an I...
GUILEFUL
GUILEFUL, adjective Cunning; drafty; artful; wily; deceitful; insidious; as a guileful person.1. Treacherous; deceitful.2. Intended to deceive; as guileful words.
GUILEFULLY
GUILEFULLY, adverb Artfully; insidiously; treacherously.
GUILEFULNESS
GUILEFULNESS, noun Deceit, secret treachery.
GUILELESSNESS
GUILELESSNESS, noun Simplicity; freedom from guile.
GUILER
GUILER, noun One who betrays into danger by insidious arts. [Not used.]
GUILLEMOT
GUIL'LEMOT, noun A water fowl of the genus Colymbus, and order of ansers. It is found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and America.
GUILLOTIN
GUIL'LOTIN, noun An engine or machine for beheading persons at a stroke.GUIL'LOTIN, verb transitive To behead with the guillotin
GUILLS
GUILLS, noun A plant, the corn marigold.
GUILT
GUILT, noun gilt.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 co...
GUILTILY
GUILT'ILY, adverb In a manner to incur guilt, not innocently.
GUILTINESS
GUILT'INESS, noun The state of being guilty; wickedness; criminality; guilt.
GUILTLESS
GUILT'LESS, adjective Free from guilt, crime or offense; innocent.The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Exodus 20:7.1. Not produced by the slaughter...
GUILTLESSLY
GUILT'LESSLY, adverb Without guilt; innocently.
GUILTLESSNESS
GUILT'LESSNESS, noun Innocence; freedom from guilt or crime.GUILT'-SICK, adjective Diseased in consequence of guilt.
GUILTY
GUILT'Y, adjective 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 lia...
GUINEA
GUIN'EA, noun 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.
GUINEA-DROPPER
GUIN'EA-DROPPER, noun One who cheats by dropping guineas.
GUINEA-HEN
GUIN'EA-HEN, noun 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...
GUINEA-PEPPER
GUIN'EA-PEP'PER, noun A plant, the Capsicum. The pods of some species are used for pickles.
GUINEA-PIG
GUIN'EA-PIG, noun 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 ...
GUINIAD
GUIN'IADGUISE, noun gize.1. External appearance; dress; garb. He appeared in the guise of a shepherd. The hypocrite wears the guise of religion.That love which is without dissim...