guidage 
guidage (gi'daj), . [= OF. guidage; as guide + 
-ge.~] 1. Guidance; direction. Southey. [Rare.] 
2f. A reward given for safe-conduct through 
an unknown country. 
guidance (gi'dans), . [< guide + -ance.] The 
act of guiding; a leading or conducting; direc- 
tion; instruction. 
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guilder 
One who guides; a guide or di- 
and especially about the roads by which an 
enemy may approach. The giiides accom- 
pany headquarters. (6) One of the non-com- 
missioned officers or other enlisted men who 
take positions to mark the pivots, marches, 
formations, and alinements in modern disci- 
pline. 4. A guide-book. 5. In mining: (a) A 
I at least understand enough of it to enable me to form cross-course. [Cornwall, Eng.] (6) pi. Same ScoK, Marmion, Iv. 32. 
for my own guidance . . . not an obscure, not an hesitat- as cage-guides. 6. Something intended to di- guide-rail (gid ral), n. In rail., an additional 
ing, butaclearanddetemimedjudgTi^nt^^^ ^ rect or keep to a course or motion; a contri- rail placed midway between the two ordinary 
It would have been utterly impossible for Sir Arthur 
Wardour, or his daughter, to have found their way along 
these shelves without the guidance and encouragement 
of the beggar. Scott, Antiquary, vii. 
She gave their brother blind 
Her hand ... for guidance. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
guide (gid), v. t. ; pret. and pp. guided, ppr. guid- 
ing. [< ME. guiden, usually giden, gyden, < OF. 
*gtiider, F. guider (OF. also reg. guier, > ME. am- 
en, gien, gyen, E. guy, guide: see guy*-) =. Pr. gui- 
dar, guizar = Sp. Pg. guiar = It. guidare, guide ; 
of Teut. origin, prob. < Goth, witan, watch, ob- 
serve, AS. witan, E. wit, know (cf. deriv. AS. 
wita, an adviser, = Icel. viti, a leader, a signal), 
allied to AS. u-is, E. wise, AS. wisian, G. weisen, 
show, direct, guide, lead, AS. wisa, a guide, 
leader, director : see wit, wise 1 . Doublet guy 1 .} 
1. To show the way to; lead or conduct. 
And to this place hegidyd yow the weye. 
Qenerydes (E. E. T. S.X 1. 116. 
I wish . . . you'd guide me to your sovereign's court 
Shak., Pericles, ii. 1. 
r., + -e 
rector. 
Whereby he and the said bishop constituted one Simon 
Warner to be guider and keeper of the house, or hospital. 
Strype, Abp. Parker, iii. 20. 
God Is the guider of the field, 
He breaks the champion's spear and shield. 
Scott, Marmion, iv. 32. 
vance for regulating progressive motion or ac- ra ^ 8 ' a track, designed, in connection with 
tion : as, a sewing-machine guide. See guide- devices on the engine or cars, to keep a train 
bar, guide-rail, etc. Specifically -(o) In printing: from leavil >g the track on curves, crossings, or 
(1) A flat movable rule, or other device, used by type-set^ steep grades. 
- to mark place on their copy._ _(2) ^projection onjhe guideresst, . [Early mod. E. also guidresse; < 
'"" l ME. gyderesse; <. guider + -e$s.] A female guide 
or leader. 
Brutus, guided now, as he thought by divine conduct, 
speeds him towards the West Milton, Hist Eng., 1. 
2. To direct or regulate ; manage ; give direc- 
tion to ; control. 
I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear 
children, guide the house. 1 Tim. v. 14. 
Tis not Fortune guides this World below. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. 
The hotel of Madame S. de E d is not more distin- 
i by the fine taste 
3. 
to be printed. (6) In bookbinding, the bear- 
ings which make the groove or channel 
that steadies the motion of a cutting-knife, 
(c) On a fishing-rod, one of the metal rings 
through which the line is passed, (d) One 
of the arcs of circles fastened on the fore 
axle of a wagon as a bearing for the bed 
when it locks. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
7. In music: (a) The subject or 
dux of a fugue. (6) A direct Axle- 
box guides. See axle-box. Cross-head 
guides. See cross-head. Drop-guide, In 
a printing-press, a contrivance of iron or 
brass that rises, permits the paper to pass 
out, and then drops. Guide-blade cham- 
ber, the chamber in a turbine water-wheel 
casing containing the guiding partitions 
which direct the flow of water on the wheel. 
Guide center, guide left, guide right, military or- 
ders indicating the position of the guide in marking the 
pivots, formations, and alinements. Head-guide in a 
printing-press, the guide for the head or narrow end of the 
paper. Side-guide, in a printing-press, the guide for 
the side or broad end of the paper. Spiral-grooved 
guide, a boring-tool for long holes, such as shafts or tun- 
nels. It consists of a tube of wrought-iron of the siie 
of the hole to be bored, and having throughout Its en- 
tire lenr"^ 
and sed 
face ii 
Guide for 
Fishing-rod. 
Thow [philosophy] art gyderesse of verrey lyht 
Chaucer, Boethlus, iv. prose 1. 
Fortune herselfe the guidresse of all worldly chances. 
Chaloner, tr. of Morise Encomium, sig. P, 4. 
guide-roller (gidWler), . A roller on a fixed 
axis serving as a guide to anything passing 
along in contact with it. 
guide-ropes (gid'rops), . pi. Same as cage- 
guides. [U. 8.] 
guide-screw (gid'skrS), . In mach., a screw 
for directing or regulating certain movements, 
guidesbipt (gid'ship), n. [< guide + -ship.] 
Guidance; government; management; treat- 
ment. 
He desired that they would send to France for the duik 
of Albanie, to cum and ressaive the auctoritie and guid- 
schip off the realme. Pitscottie, Chron. of Scotland, p. 290. 
An' our ain lads 
Gar'd them work hard, 
An' little sust nance gae, 
That I was even at their guideship wae. 
ele 
Disraeli, Coningsby, p. 290. 
Their left hand does the calking-iron guide, 
The rattling mallet with the right they lift 
Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, 1. 583. 
To use; treat. [Scotch.] 
O think then Willie he was right wae, 
When he saw his uncle guided [hanged] sae. 
fectly straight boring. 
guide-bar (gid'bar), . One of 
metal with parallel sides fitted on the ends of 
the cross-head of a steam-engine, on which the 
cross-head slides and by which it is kept paral- 
lel to the cylinder. They are a substitute for 
the parallel motion. 
slide-rod, and slide. 
Ross, Helenore, p. 62. 
* - ' , .M.M .>T1!I_ I II I I 'HUIII Mil lln Oil- . J , _ _ ... _ - > _ 
engtn spiral grooves, by means of which the water gUlfle-tUbe (giu tub), n. In mach., any contri- 
lediment are conveyed to the surface. Its cutting vance by which a boring-bit or drill is jruided 
" ?? -*-.! n . te I 7_^; *? th d'arnoid" to prevent wear, commonly a fixed tube to prevent swerving 
[Uideway (gid'wa), n. In mech., a track, chan- 
nel, framework, or other device of kindred na- 
ture serving as a guide for any mechanism. 
The tool carriage ... Is adapted to slide on guideways 
on the main frame [of an automatic wood-turning lathe). 
SO. Amer., N. S., LVII. 18. 
A yoke-shaped guid- 
Also called guide-Mock, guide-yoke (gid'yok), n. 
ing piece in machinery. 
guide-block (gid'blok), n. Same as guide-bar, guidguid (gwid'gwid), n. [Appar. imitative; 
Lads qf Wamphray (Child's BaM&As, VI. 171). guide-book (gid'buk), n. A book of directions cf - guttguit.] Same as barking-bird. C. Dar- 
for travelers and tourists as to the best routes, "'* 
Syn. 1 and 2. Guide, Direct, Sway; manage, control. , 
pilot, steer. Guide implies that the person guiding ac- etc., and giving information about the places guidon (gi'don), n. [Formerly also guydon; < 
to be visited. F. guidon (="Sp. guion = Pg. guiOo), a guidon, 
< guider, etc., guide: see guide.} 1. Agnail 
companies or precedes, while direct need not mean more 
d^ancf TL^uU'i've'usesTthe^woraJ Ire nTfa? gjlMfl^Tgid'krtft), n. The art of or skill 
from the same meanings. Direct may imply that we must m guiding or leading the way. [Rare. ] 
reflect and exercise judgment guide that we trustingly 
follow where we are led ; but direct also means to exer- 
cise absolute authority : as, he directed all the movements 
of the army by telegraph from the seat of government. 
Sway in this connection is used of some influence, often 
bad and always strong, which turns us aside from what 
otherwise might have been our course, and in this sense is 
nearly equal to bias. (See comparison under authority.) 
We are guided or directed by principle or reason, or by a 
The true pioneers : that is to say, the men who Invented 
'Uidecraft. The Academy, Jan. 7, 1888, p. 3. 
guide-feather (gid'feTH'er), n. One of the 
feathers on an arrow, of a different color from 
the rest, placed perpendicularly to the line of 
the nock, to enable the archer the more readily 
r r ^ _ to adjust the arrow to the bowstring. 
real friend, and wayed by ou/passions or feelfngs^orby guide-flag (gld'flag), II. 1. Nant., in fleet tac- 
dif 
unwise or unworthy associates. 
The stars will guide us back. 
George Eliut, Spanish Gypsy, iv. 
WTio can direct when all pretend to know ? 
Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 64. 
Take heed, lest passion sway 
Thy judgment to do aught which else free will 
Would not admit. Milton, P. L., viii. 6S5. 
guide (gid), n. [< ME. guide, guyde, gide, gyde, 
< OF. *guid, guis, F. guide = Pr. guida, gu'it = 
Sp. Pg. guia = It. guida, guide ; from the verb.] 
1. One who leads or directs another or others 
in a way or course ; a conductor ; specifically, 
one engaged in the business of guiding; a per- 
son familiar with a region, town, public build- 
ing, etc., who is employed to lead strangers, as 
travelers or tourists, to or through it. 
tics, a flag displayed on the vessel which is to 
act as a pivot or guide during an evolution of 
the fleet. In the United States navy the guard-flag, a 
guiding flag or streamer, as that usually borne 
by each troop of cavalry or mounted battery 
of artillery, or used to direct the movements 
of infantry, or to signal with at sea. It is broad 
at the end next the staff and pointed, rounded, 
or notched at the other end. 
The king of England's self, and his renowned son, 
tinder his guydon marcht as private soldiers there. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xviii. 251. 
The guidon, according to Markham, is inferior to the 
standard, being the first colour any commander of horse 
can let fly In the field. Grose, Military Antiq., II. 258. 
1. 3. The 
fl 
!. Milit., a small flag or guidon borne by a sol- Gruidpnian (fjwe-do'ni-an), a. In music, per- 
if.t* , 1 .-,.;,,,. .L t ... 1 .. .._1,.,_ __ j ___ ; _. t.p.imTicr t.f\ f-rnif\n /I' A vawf\ m. ^Jni/l^\ Awntin/v AT. 
dier designated as a marker, and serving to 
mark points of wheeling, alinements, etc. 
guideless (gid'les), a. [< guide + -less.] With- 
out a guide or means of guidance ; wanting 
direction or a director. 
The greatest of their palliasses fell foule vpon another 
ship, and lost her rudder, so that guideless she droue with 
the tyde vpon a shelue in the shoare of Callis. 
Speed, Queen Elizabe'th, an. 1588. guigawt . 
Th' ambitious Swede, like restless billows tost Mill <ihfit 
Though in his life he blood and ruin breath'd, 
To his now guideless kingdom peace beqaeath'd. 
taining to Guido d'Arezzo, or Guide Aretino, an 
Italian musician of the eleventh century ; Are- 
tinian Gttldonlan hand, a tabulation of the tones of 
the scale, and especially of the hexachord system, upon 
the joints and tips of the fingers, so as to display their re- 
lations to the eye as an aid to solmization : invented by 
Guido. Also called harmonic hand. Guldonlan sylla- 
bles. See Aretinian syllables, under Aretinian. 
guiet, v. t. See guy 1 . 
An obsolete spelling of gewgaw. 
Dryden. 
. - ____. ^ ,, A post placed at the 
point of division or intersection of two or more 
roads, and displaying a sign for directing trav- 
elers on their way ; a finger-post. 
Great men are the guidcposts and marks in the state. 
Burke, American Taxation. 
Merlin was Guyde till thei come in a grete foreste, where 
thei a-lighte till here mete was made redy. guide-post (gid'post), n. 
at&Tlin (E. E. T. S.), 11. 150. -^.^1^* i :..:.: ._ j. 
Ac the wey ys so wyckede, bote ho so hadde a gyde 
That myght folwen oils ech tot for drede of rays-torn- 
ynge. Piers Plowman (C\ viii. 307. 
2. One who or that which determines or directs 
another in his conduct or course of action ; a 
director ; a regulator. 
Open your eyes to the light of grace, a better guide than 
Nature. Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst 
They were dangerous guides, the feelings. 
Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
3. Milit.: (a) One resident in or otherwise fa- fool 
miliar with the neighborhood where an army O. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 47. 
is encamped in time of war, employed or forced guider (gi'der), n. [< ME. aider rwder etc < 
to give intelligence concerning the country, OF. guide or, guideur, < 'guider, guide: see guide, 
guige, gige (gej), n. [OF., also guigne, guiche, 
guice, guise, guinche, the strap of a shield, also 
a strap or cord attached to a banner, sword- 
belt, etc., = It. guiggia, the strap of a shield, 
the strap of a sandal or slipper, the upper-lea- 
ther of a slipper or shoe, etc.] The strap of a 
shield, by which it is supported over the shoul- 
der, and by which it can be hung up when not 
I have heard these called "finger-posts," but to me, a in use - ^l 80 ffV> <7*'<7 Me - 
native of Lancashire, guide-post is the natural and familiar Guignet's green. See green 1 . 
JIT. and ., 7th ser., VI. 432. (Juikwar, ft. Same as Oaikwar. 
guide-pulley (gid'puFi), . In mach., a pul- guilala (gwi-la'la), n. Same as bilalo. 
ley employed to alter the course of a band. guild 1 !, '. * An'obsolete spelling of gild 1 . 
The band for driving the mandrel proceeds from the guild 2 , gUlldable, etc. See gild?, etc. 
ot - wheel OTCr the two oblique guide-pulley,. guilder, gilder 2 (gil'der), n. [Formerly also 
gilden ; var. of qilden* 1 I A eold coin for- 
merly 'current inT Netherlands andTn Ger- 
many.- 2. Now, a Dutch silver coin of the 
