Part 5018

<blockquote>This is the place, as well as I may <b>guess</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

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

<hw>Guess</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>A poet must confess His art 's like physic -- but a happy <b>guess</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Guessable</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guess"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being guessed.</def>

<h1>Guesser</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guess"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.</def>

<h1>Guessingly</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guess"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>By way of conjecture.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Guessive</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guess"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Conjectural.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Feltham.</i>

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

<hw>Guess" rope"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>A guess warp.</def>

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

<hw>Guess" warp"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Guesswork</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guess"work`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.</def>

<h1>Guest</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guest</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>gest</ets>, AS. <ets>g\'91st</ets>, <ets>gest</ets>; akin to OS., D., & G. <ets>gust</ets>, Icel <ets>gestr</ets>, Sw. <ets>g\'84st</ets>, Dan. <ets>Gj\'84st</ets>, Goth. <ets>gast</ets>, Russ. <ets>goste</ets>, and to L. <ets>hostis</ets> enemy, stranger; the meaning <ets>stranger</ets> is the older one, but the root is unknown. Cf. <er>Host</er> an army, <er>Hostile</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay.</def>

<blockquote>To cheer his <b>gueste</b>, whom he had stayed that night. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting <b>guest</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Guest</h1> <Xpage=656>

<hw>Guest</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To receive or entertain hospitably.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sylvester.</i>

<h1>Guest</h1> <Xpage=656>