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But in known images of life I guess The labor greater.

Pope.

Syn. -- To conjecture; suppose; surmise; suspect; divine; think; imagine; fancy. -- To Guess, Think, Reckon. Guess denotes, to attempt to hit upon at random; as, to guess at a thing when blindfolded; to conjecture or form an opinion on hidden or very slight grounds: as, to guess a riddle; to guess out the meaning of an obscure passage. The use of the word guess for think or believe, although abundantly sanctioned by good English authors, is now regarded as antiquated and objectionable by discriminating writers. It may properly be branded as a colloguialism and vulgarism when used respecting a purpose or a thing about which there is no uncertainty; as, I guess I 'll go to bed.

Guess, v. i. To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.

This is the place, as well as I may guess.

Milton.

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.

A poet must confess His art 's like physic -- but a happy guess.

Dryden.

Guess"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being guessed.

Guess"er (?), n. One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.

Guess"ing*ly, adv. By way of conjecture. Shak.

Guess"ive (?), a. Conjectural. [Obs.] Feltham.

Guess" rope" (?). (Naut.) A guess warp.

Guess" warp" (?). (Naut.) 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.

Guess"work` (?), n. Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

Guest (gst), n. [OE. gest, AS. gÊst, gest; akin to OS., D., & G. gast, Icel. gestr, Sw. g‰st, Dan. Gj‰st, Goth. gasts, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. Host an army, Hostile.] 1. 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 (?), 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.

Guest"wise" (?), adv. In the manner of a guest.

Gue"vi (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of several very small species and varieties of African antelopes, of the genus Cephalophus, as the Cape guevi or kleeneboc (Cephalophus pygmÊa); -- called also pygmy antelope. [1913 Webster]