Part 5017

<h1>Guerilla</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Gue*ril"la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>See <er>Guerrilla</er>.</def>

<h1>Guerite</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guer"ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>gu\'82rite</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Fort.)</fld> <def>A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.</def>

<h1>Guernsey lily</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guern"sey lil"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A South African plant (<spn>Nerine Sarniensis</spn>) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.</def>

<h1>Guerrilla</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guer*ril"la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp., lit., a little war, skirmish, dim. of <ets>guerra</ets> war, fr. OHG. <ets>werra</ets> discord, strife. See <er>War</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An irregular mode of carrying on war, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<note>&hand; The term <i>guerrilla</i> is the diminutive of the Spanish word <it>guerra</it>, war, and means <i>petty war</i>, 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 <i>regular war</i>.

<i>F. Lieder.</i> </note>

<h1>Guerrilla</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guer*ril"la</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; <as>as, a <ex>guerrilla</ex> party; <ex>guerrilla</ex> warfare.</as></def>

<h1>Guess</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guess</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Guessed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Guessing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>gessen</ets>; akin to Dan. <ets>gisse</ets>, Sw. <ets>gissa</ets>, Icel. <ets>gizha</ets>, D. <ets>gissen</ets>: cf. Dan. <ets>giette</ets> to guess, Icel. <ets>geta</ets> to get, to guess. Probably originally, to try to get, and akin to E. <ets>get</ets>. See <er>Get</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.</def>

<blockquote>First, if thou canst, the harder reason <b>guess</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.</def>

<blockquote>We may then guess how far it was from his design. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Of ambushed men, whom, by their arms and dress, To be Taxallan enemies I <b>guess</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; <as>as, he who <ex>guesses</ex> the riddle shall have the ring; he has <ex>guessed</ex> my designs</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To hit upon or reproduce by memory.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Tell me their words, as near as thou canst <b>guess</b> them. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.</def>

<blockquote>Not all together; better far, I <b>guess</b>, That we do make our entrance several ways. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>But in known images of life I <b>guess</b> The labor greater. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To conjecture; suppose; surmise; suspect; divine; think; imagine; fancy.</syn> <usage> -- <er>To Guess</er>, <er>Think</er>, <er>Reckon</er>. <i>Guess</i> denotes, to attempt to hit upon at random; <as>as, to <ex>guess</ex> at a thing when blindfolded; to conjecture or form an opinion on hidden or very slight grounds: as, to <ex>guess</ex> a riddle; to <ex>guess</ex> out the meaning of an obscure passage</as>. The use of the word <ex>guess</ex> 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>as, I <ex>guess</ex> I 'll go to bed</as>.</usage>

<h1>Guess</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guess</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc</def>