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Gu"ber*nance (?), n. Government. [Obs.]

Gu"ber*nate (?), v. t. [L. gubernatus, p. p. of gubernare. See Govern.] To govern. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Gu"ber*na`tion (?), n. [L. gubernatio.] The act of governing; government [Obs.] I. Watts.

Gu"ber*na*tive (?), a. Governing. [Obs.]

Gu"ber*na*to`ri*al (?), a. [L. gubernator governor. See Gabernate.] Pertaining to a governor, or to government.

Gud"geon (gj"n), n. [OE. gojon, F. goujon, from L. gobio, or gobius, Gr. kwbio`s Cf. 1st Goby. ] 1. (Zoˆl.) 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.

2. What may be got without skill or merit.

Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

Shak.

3. A person easily duped or cheated. Swift.

4. (Mach.) 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.

6. (Naut.) A metal eye or socket attached to the sternpost to receive the pintle of the rudder.

Ball gudgeon. See under Ball.

Gud"geon, v. t. To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon. [R.]

To be gudgeoned of the opportunities which had been given you.

Sir IV. Scott.

Gue (?), n. A sharper; a rogue. [Obs.] J. Webstar.

Gue"ber Gue"bre (?), n. Same as Gheber.

Guel"der*rose' (?), n. [Supposed to be brought from Guelderland; hence, D. Geldersche roos, G. Gelderische rose, F. rose de Gueldre, It. rose di Gueldra, Sp. rosa de Gueldres.] (Bot.) A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.

{ Guelph, Guelf } (gwlf), n. [It. Guelfo, from Welf, the name of a German family.] (Hist.) 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.

{ Guelph"ic, Guelf"ic } (?), a. Of or pertaining to the family or the faction of the Guelphs.

||Guenon" (?), n. [F.] (Zoˆl.) One of several long-tailed Oriental ||monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.

||Gue`parde" (?), n. [Cf. F. guÈpard.] (Zoˆl.) The cheetah.

Guer"don (?), n. [OF. guerdon, guerredon, LL. widerdonum (influenced by L. donum gift, cf. Donation ), fr. OHG. widarln; widar again, against (G. wider wieder) + ln reward, G. lohn, akin to AS. le·n Goth. laun. See Withers.] A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense. Macaulay.

So young as to regard men's frown or smile As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot.

Byron.

He shall, by thy revenging hand, at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies.

Knolles.