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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Guĭld'hall, n. p. 595The hall where a guild or corporation usually assemble.Guile, n. p. 595Craft; cunning; artifice; duplicity; deceit;—usually in a bad sense. Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile. John i. 47. To wage by force or guile eternal war. Milton.Guile, v. t. p. 595To disguise craftily; to conceal. Spenser. 2. To deceive; to delude. Spenser.Guile'ful, a. p. 595Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty. “A guileful liberality.” Milton.Guile'ful-ly, adv. p. 595In a guileful manner.Guile'ful-ness, n. p. 595The state or quality of being guileful. Sherwood.Guile'less, a. p. 595Free from guile or deceit; artless.Guile'less-ly, adv. p. 595In a guileless manner.Guile'less-ness, n. p. 595State or quality of being guileless; freedom from guile or deceit.Guil'er, n. p. 595One who betrays into danger by insidious arts. [Obs.] Spenser.Guil-le-mêt’, n. p. 595A turned comma used as a mark of a quotation, thus [‘];—in the plural, applied both to the turned commas and to the apostrophes, used to indicate a quotation, as thus [“”]; quotation marks or points.…Guil'le-mōt', n. p. 595A marine diving bird of the genus Uria, having very stout legs, and three completely webbed toes, allied to the penguins, auks, and divers, and found in the northern parts of Europe, Asia, and…Guil'le-vāt', n. p. 595A vat for fermenting liquors.Guilloche, n. p. 595(Arch.) An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a continued series. Gwill.Guĭl'lo-tine', n. p. 596An engine or machine for beheading a person by the stroke of a heavy ax or cutter, which is raised by a cord and let fall upon the neck of the victim.Guïl'lo-tīne', v. t. p. 596To behead with the guillotine.Guill's, n. p. 596A plant; the corn-marigold.Guilt', n. p. 596The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; crime; criminality; neglect to obey, or transgression of, right…Guilt'i-ly, adv. p. 596In a guilty manner.Guilt'i-ness, n. p. 596The quality or state of being guilty; wickedness; criminality; guilt.Guilt'less, a. p. 596Free from guilt, crime, or offense; not guilty; innocent; not liable to a charge. The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Ex. xx. 7. 2. Without experience or trial. Such…Guilt'less-ly, adv. p. 596In a guiltless manner.Guilt'less-ness, n. p. 596The quality or state of being guiltless. Sidney.Guilt'-sick, a. p. 596Made sick by guilt, or the consciousness of guilt. “A guilt-sick conscience.” B. & Fl.Guil'ty, a. p. 596Evincing guilt; justly exposed to penalty; criminal and ill-deserving; morally delinquent; wicked; corrupt;—used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. They answered…Guilt'y-like, adv. p. 596Guiltily. [Obs.] Shak.Guim'bard, n. p. 596A jew's-harp. [Rare.] Maunder.Guīn'ea, n. p. 596A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but no longer issued. The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was…Guin'ea-côrn, n. p. 596(Bot.) The great or Indian millet, a variety of the Sorghum vulgare.Guīn'ea-drōp'per, n. p. 596One who cheats by dropping guineas.Guïn'ea-fowl, n. p. 596(Or-nith.) A fowl (the Numida meleagris), closely allied to the peacocks and to the turkeys, originally brought from Africa. It is larger than the common hen, has a colored fleshy horn on each side…Guīn'ea-grāins, n. pl. p. 596Grains of paradise.Guīn'ea-grāss, n. p. 596(Bot.) A tall, strong forage grass (Panicum maximum of Jacquin), introduced from the west coast of Africa into the West Indies and Southern States of America. Simmonds.Guïn'ea-hēn, n. p. 596See GUINEA-FOWL.Guin'ea-pep'per, n. p. 596(Bot.) The seeds of two different plants of the genus Amomum (A. granaparadisi, and A. grandiflorum), found in Africa and the East India islands, having a hot, biting taste, and, being aromatic and…Guin'ea-pig, n. p. 596(Zoöl.) A small Brazilian rodent; the Cavia cobaya. It is about seven inches in length, and of a white color, with spots of orange and black.Guin'ea-worm, n. p. 596(Zoöl.) An entozoid worm found in Africa (the Filaria medinensis), that burrows in the human cellular tissue. It is round, whitish, and attains considerable length.Guin'i-ad, n. p. 596See GWINIAD.Guipure, n. p. 596An imitation of antique lace, which is durable, less expensive, and equally beautiful; also, a kind of gimp. Simmonds.Guir'-land, n. p. 596A garland. [Obs.] Holland.Guise, n. p. 596External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; behavior; mien. “As then the guise was for each gentle swain.” Spenser. A vast, tremendous, unformed specter, in a…Guīz'er, n. p. 596A person in disguise; a mummer who goes about at Christmas.Gui-tär', n. p. 596A stringed instrument of music resembling the violin, but larger, and having six strings, played upon with the fingers, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut.Gū'la, n. p. 596(Arch.) An ogee, or wavy member in a building; the cymatium.Gū'lar, a. p. 596Pertaining to the throat.Gū'laund, n. p. 596(Ornith.) An aquatic fowl, of a size between a duck and a goose, the breast and belly white, the head mallard-green. It inhabits Iceland. Pennant.Gūlch, n. p. 596A glutton; a swallowing or devouring. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 2. A ravine, or dry water-course; a gully.Gŭlch, v. t. p. 596To swallow greedily. [Obs.]Gūle, v. t. p. 596To give the color of gules to. Heywood.Gūles, n. p. 596(Her.) A red color; red;—intended, perhaps, to represent courage, animation, or hardihood, and indicated in engraved figures of escutcheons and the like by straight perpendicular lines. Full on this…Gūlf, n. p. 596A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin. He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. Milton. 2. (Geog.) A wide opening filled from the sea; the entrance of the ocean into the…Gŭlf'-strēam, n. p. 596(Geog.) A warm current in the Atlantic Ocean running from the Gulf of Mexico along the shores of the United States, and continuing over the North-eastern Atlantic.Gūlf'-weed, n. p. 596(Bot.) A branching sea-weed (the Sargassum bacciferum, or sea-grape), having numerous grape-like air-vessels, and found in the gulf-stream.Gŭlf'y, a. p. 596Full of whirlpools or gulfs. To pass the gulfy purple sea that did no sea-rites know. Chapman.Gū'list, n. p. 596A glutton. [Obs.] Fealty.Gŭll, v. t. p. 596To deceive; to cheat; to mislead by deception; to trick; to defraud. The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed. Dryden. I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service. Coleridge.Gŭll, n. p. 596A cheating or cheat; trick; fraud. Shak. 2. One easily cheated; a dupe. Shak.Gŭll, n. p. 596(Ornith.) A web-footed sea-fowl, of the genus Larus, with long, narrow wings and with a straight beak hooked at the tip. The common gull is the Larus zonorhynchus. Great black-backed Gull. ☞ Why the…Gŭll'age, n. p. 596Act of being gulled. [Obs.] Had you no quirk To avoid gullage, sir, by such a creature? B. Jonson.Gŭll'-cătch'er, n. p. 596One who catches gulls; one who deceives or entraps silly people. Shak.