GUE 
1311. He was the fon of a noble of that province, but fo 
completely neglected in his youth, that he was never able to 
read or write. When he arrived at manhood, he was per- 
petually engaged in quarrels and in combats with his cotem- 
poraries, and he 
anions, ‘ever to pleafe the ladies, but I can at 
my king.’ e 
of Poiétiers, in which John, king of France, was made 
prifoner, 
was made prifoner by the Englith. He was ran- 
fomed at a high price ; and was again taken captive at the 
battle of Navarette, in 1367. The Black Prince, difcon- 
tented with in hi 
ie Traftam 
throne, in oppofition to his enem Peter. 
his reward v 4 
z 
B ur Molina, and count of 
rh € was engaged, after this, in feveral expeditions 
a ere 4 ’ > Pp ? 
which did hono i 1 
was 
Chateau-neuf-de-Rendan, 
re he was attacked with a mortal difeafe, 
pproaching, he fummoned 
itrongly recommended 
bourers, women, chil- 
. aged and infirm, teftifying the moft unfeigned 
HY ise at having himfelf not always obferved thefe rules. 
expired in the year 1380, at the 
“a marched out the day ae 
“ commander refpeétfully laid the keys o: 
the fortrefs on his coffin, His bod wie conveyed 8 St. 
CUre. ofited in the tomb next that of the king. 
tae | DA, in Botany, is properly the name of woad ; 
<s- alfo ufed by fome for the Jutum, or lutea herba of 
ike and cymene of the Greeks, This is an error 
: eee of the old authors, though fo le that one 
= nobody could have run into it ; 
; at 
te OF cymene, having been 
n always ufed to dye yellow, and 
or guefda, to dye Gers of the 
blue ; and the chara 
or dye ™ Plainly thewing it to be our genifiella tin@oria, Corolla 
won f's weed, but not at alfigreciny with Sain ay or — 
bo VEST-Rors, on Ship-board, is that rope by which the 
a the fas go fle ing or going too much in and 
¥ eke: Ww a le : 
1 UEST-TAKERS, or Gist-raxers. See Acis- 
GUERA, St Waren. ; 
in New Cina.) MUETA, in Geography, 
> New Caftile, fituated on a {mall eee and containing 10 
a : *: 7 convents, and three hofpitals ; and faid to be 
~ e i 
a town of Spain, 
GUE ; 
founded 930 years B.C.; it derived its prefent name, fignify. 
ing the moon, from the rs, and it wast om them 
by Alphonfo VI.; 43 miles E. of Madrid. N. lat. 40° 20', 
- long. 3° 1’, 
GUETARIA, a fea-port town of Spain, in the pro- 
vince of Guipufcoa, with a good harbour at the mouth of - 
the Orio ; 9 miles W. of St. Sebattian. 
G 
longing to the duke of Orleans. He travelled much ne 
of knowledge ; and he publifhed in the colleétion of the Aca- 
emy of Science, and printed in two quarto volumes nearly 
two hundred memoirs, on different parts of natural hiftory, 
He likewife publifhed fome « Obfervations on Plants,’’ in 
1747. He lived to the age of 71. Hutchirifon Biog. Med. 
oy. 
GUETTARDA, in Botany, named by Linnzus in ho- 
D. member of the 
aged 71.— 
Pl. v. 4. 398. : : ; 
Iluitr. t. 154. Gertn. t. 36. (Halefia ; Brown. Jam. 205.) 
—Clafsand order, Monoecia Heptandria, i 
Hexandria, Schreber and Willdenow. Pentandria M. 
Lamarck, which laft is perhaps moft juftifiable by 
as 
acea, Juil, 
n. Ch. Cal. Perianth fuperior, of one leaf, cylindrical, 
ort, flightly waved or toothed, deciduous. Cor. of one 
petal, funnel-fhaped ; tube cylindrical, elongated ; limb in 
i ding y wepee much fhorter 
- nor e n o ed in more than the firit 
{pecies, 
Eff. Ch. Calyx fuperior, cylindrical, flightly toothed. 
sla of one thBe funnel Fels Anthers in the mouth 
of the tube. . Nut with feveral feeds, 
