guilder 
value of Is. 8rf. English, or about 40 cents. Also guilery (gi'ler-i), n. 
called gulden and florin. "'' [Prov. Eng.] 
I am hound guilfat (gil'fat) 
To Persia, and want guilders for ray voyage. 
Sha/c., 0. of E., iv. 1. 
jt;r, I 
Deceit; beguiling. HnUt- 
The salary of a Burgomaster of Amsterdam is but five 
hundred guilders a year. 
Sir W. Temple, The United Provinces, n. 
guildhall, . See gildhall. 
guile 1 (gil), " [< ME. gile, gyle, < OF. guile, 
guille, gile, gyle = Pr. guil, in., guila, gilla, f., 
p > r n. [E. dial., also written guil- 
'levni; <"ME. gylefat, < gyle, guile2, + fat, vat: 
see guile'*.] A wort-tub; the tub in which liquor 
ferments. 
guilingt, . [< ME. gilingc; verbal n. of guile 1 , 
r.] Deceit; artifice. 
Leue alle fals mesuris & al gilinge : 
This is the .vij. comaundement. 
guillc, gile, gyle = Pr. guil, m., gmt-a, gwa, r., Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 105. 
guile: <OLG. "roH = AS. mil, E. wile: see wile.] g 11 in amt . Same as guillemot. Charleton. 
1. Disposition to deceive or cheat; insidious g U jll aume (ge-lyom'), n. [F., appar. from the 
artifice; craft; cunning. proper name Guillaume, William.] A variety 
With gyle thow hem gete agayne al resoun, o f rebate-plane used in finishing rebates in 
For, . . . In persone of an addre, ininAra' \vnrk 
Valseliche thow fettest there thynge that I loued. J .l ne 8 wor ^- 
Pir Plowman (BXxviii. 332. guillemt, . Same as guillemot. Willughby; Itay. 
Artthounotvoidofputie- guillemet (F. pvon. ge-lye-ma'), . [F., from 
A lovely soul formed to be blest and bless? the name of the inventor.] A quotation-mark. 
Shelley, Epipsychidion. [Rarely used in English.] 
guillemot (gil'e-mot), n. [< F. guillemot, ap- 
par. adapted < Bret, gwelan = W. gwylan = 
2t. 
A trick; a wile. 
He toke the horn, 
And dyde as he was wont beforn, 
Bot ther was jit gon a giile. 
The Horn of King Arthur (Child's Ballads, I. 24). 
These fellows commonly, which use such deceitfulness 
and guiles, can speak so finely, that a man would think 
butter shall scant melt in their mouths. 
Latimer, Misc. Selections. 
a. Artfulness, subtlety, deception, trickery. 
Corn, gullan (> E. gull 1 ), a gull, sea-mew (of. 
mouette, a sea-mew, of Teut. origin (see mewl). 
The F. word is thus (appar.) a cumulative com- 
guiltless 
curved lines, < guUlocher, decorate with inter- 
secting curved lines : see guilloche, v.] To form 
guilloches on; decorate with guilloches. 
A charming effect is produced at the Neuwelt houses by 
means of a yuillocheeiny machine in which an engraver's 
tool is drawn in regularly massed lines over the slowly 
revolving vase. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXIX. 349. 
guillotine (gii'o-ten), . [< F. guillotine: see 
def.] 1. A machine used in France for be- 
heading condemned persons by the action of 
a heavily weighted, oblique-edged knife falling 
between two grooved posts upon the neck of 
the victim, whose head protrudes through a 
circular hole in a divided plank. Similar devices 
had been used in the middle ages. (See maiden.) The 
form adopted by the French government in March, 1792, 
was contrived, with the approval of the Assembly, by a 
Dr. Louis, from whom it was at first called louitette ; but 
it afterward was named from Dr. J. I. Guillotin, who had 
proposed in the National Assembly in 1789 the substitu- 
tion of some more humane method for the slow and cruel 
modes of execution then in use, but without indicating 
any particular machine. 
2. One of several machines similar in principle 
to the above, much used for cutting paper, 
Also called guillotine cutter. 3. 
instrument for cutting the tonsils. 
guillotine (gil-o-ten'), v. t. ; pret. and pp. guil- 
lotined, ppr. guillotining. [< guillotine, n.] To 
behead by the guillotine. 
IB 

"guiler, gtiiller, giler = Pr. guilar, deceive, be- 
guile ; from the noun. Cf. beguile.] 1. To de- 
ceive; beguile. 
For often he that wol beguile 
Is gm'led with the same guile, 
And thus the guiler is beguiled. 
Bower, Conf. Amant., III. 47. 
Who wots not, that womans subtiltyes 
C&ngut/len Argus, when she list misdonne? 
Spenser, F. Q., HI. ix. 7. 
2. To disguise cunningly. 
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore 
To a most dangerous sea. Shak., M. of V., iii. 2. 
Is it repentance, 
Or only a fair shew to guile his mischiefs ? 
Fletcher, Pilgrim. 
guile' 2 (gil), [ME. gyle (in comp. gylefat), < 
(OF.) F. guiller, ferment: origin obscure.] 1. 
The fermented wort used by vinegar-makers. 
Thee best befits a lowly style, 
Teach Dennis how to stir the guile. 
Surift, Panegyric on the Dean. 
2. A brewers' vat ; a guilfat. 
It is necessary to have a powerful refrigerator, com- 
manded by a deep receiver or "back," capable of holding 
the entire gyle into which the wort is pumped from the 
hop-back. 0. Seamett, Breweries and Mailings, p. S3. 
Also written gyle. 
A guile Of liquor, as much as is brewed at once. [Prov. 
Eng.) 
guileful (gil'ful), a. [< ME. gileful, gyleful; < 
guile*- + -ful.] Full of guile; deceitful; art- 
ful ; wily ; cunning. 
Her speech right guilefull is full oft, wherfore without 
good assay it is not worth on many on you to trust. 
Testament of Lone. 
Without expense at all, 
By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 1. 
guilefully (gll'ful-i), adv. In a guileful man- 
'.tfu~~ 
< OF pound, consisting of a Celtic word, gull, ex- guillotinement (gil-o-ten'ment), . [< guillo- 
_I.:_-JT :4. m o, ,, n i >.;,} ^r ^-. i ......i D ee apitatioii by means of the 
plained by its Teut. synonym, mete.] A bird of "tine + -ment.] 
the genus Uria of Brisson , or of either of the gen- guillotine . 
era Uria and Lomvia of late authors; a murre. in this poor National Convention, broken, bewildered by 
There are several species, of the subfamily Uriince and i on g terror, perturbations, and guillotinement, there is no 
family Alcidce. The common or foolish guillemot or wil- p u o t. Carlyle, French Kev., III. vii. 2. 
lock, Lomvia troile, is a bird about 18 inches long, web- _. 11 _ / .. N F A j-,,1 * ij a t ^^7/j 
footed 3-toed, blackish above and white below, with short gUlllS (gilz), n. [A dial. var. of goolas, tor goM, 
wings and tail, closely resembling the razor-billed auk, ., 6.] The corn-marigold. 
Alca torda, except in the form of the bill, which is compar- oniiltl (gilt), n. [The is a mod. and unnecessary 
atively long, slender, and acute. It inhabits rockycoasU ingertion) as in the related guild; < WE. gilt, 
of the North Atlantic, and congregates in vast numbers to 
breed, laying a single large pyrifprm egg on the edges of 
rocks overhanging the sea. A variety of this species with a 
white ring round the eye, and a white line behind it, is 
known as the ringed or spectacled guillemot, and some- 
times described as a different species, L. rhingvia. Both 
have many local names, as willy, spratter, quet, scout, skitt- 
tock, gkiddaw, kiddaw, tarrock, tinker, lungie or longie, 
murre, marrot or morrot, lamy or lavy, strany, etc., some of 
these being shared by the razor-billed auk. (See cut under 
murre.) The thick-billed or Briinnich's guillemot is Lom- 
via bruennichi, closely resembling the foregoing, but with 
a stouter bill. Similar guillemots inhabiting the North 
Pacific are known as ares or arries. The birds of the re- 
stricted genus Uria are smaller and otherwise distinct; 
ner; deceitfully; artfully. 
The throte of hem is an open sepulchre, with her tun- 
gis thei diden gilefulli, the venym of snakis is undir her 
lippis. Wyclif, Rom. iii. 13. 
guilefulness (gil'ful-nes), n. [< ME. gileful- 
nesse; < guileful + -ness.] The state or quality 
of being guileful ; deceitfulness. 
guileless (gll'les), a. [< guile 1 + -less.] 
from guile or deceit; sincere ; honest. 
And the plain ox, 
That harmless, honest, guileless animal, 
In what has he offended? 
Thomson, Spring, 1. 363. 
=Syn. Truthful, candid, unsophii 
genuous, straightforward. 
guilelessly (gil'les-li), adv 
manner ; without deceit, 
guilelessness (gll'les-nes), . The state or qual- 
Btack Guillemot (Uria grylle}. Right-hand figure, summer plumi 
left-hand figure, winter plumage. 
they are in summer blackish, with usually a white patch 
on the wing, and with red legs. Such are the black guil- 
lemot or sea-pigeon, U. grylle, of the North Atlantic, and 
sundry North Pacific representatives of the same, as U. co- 
lumba and U. carbo. 
guillevat, . Same as guilfat. 
Free guilloche (gi-16sh'), v. t.; pret. and pp. guil- 
loched, ppr. guilloching. [< F. guUlocher, dec- 
orate with intersecting curved lines; said to 
tie derived from the name of the inventor of 
this kind of ornament, one Gtiillot.] To deco- 
gylt, gult (where u represents the old sound of 
y), < AS. gylt, gielt, gilt, a fault, offense, sin, 
crime ; orig. a payment to be made in recom- 
pense for a trespass, a debt (being used to 
translate L. debitum, a debt, in this sense ; cf. 
MHG. guile, a debt, a payment, a tax, impost, 
G. giilte, impost, rent, ground-rent), < AS. gil- 
dan, gieldan (pret. pi. guidon, pp. golden), pay, 
repay, requite: see yield, and cf. gild%.] If. 
A fault; an offense; a guilty action; a crime. 
Envye with heui herte asket aftur schrift, 
And gretliche his gultus bi-ginneth to schewe. 
Piers Plowman (A), v. 60. 
Close pent-up guilts, 
Rive your concealing continents, and cry 
These dreadful summoners grace. Shak., Lear, iii. 2. 
2. That state of a moral agent which results 
from his commission of a crime or an offense 
wilfully or by consent ; culpability arising from 
conscious violation of moral or penal law, either 
by positive act or by neglect of known duty ; 
criminality; wickedness. 
An involuntary act, as it has no claim to merit, so neither 
can it induce any guilt. Blackstone, Com., IV. ii. 
Who within this garden now can dwell, 
Wherein guilt first upon the world befell ? 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 406. 
It is the curse and the punishment of guilt, in public 
even more than in private life, that one crime almost al- 
ways necessitates another and another. 
W. R. Greg, Misc. Essays, 2d ser., p. 116. 
3. Technical or constructive criminality; ex- 
posure to forfeiture or other penalty. 
A ship incurs guilt by the violation of a blockade. 
Chancellor Kent. 
guilt 1 !, v. i. [ME. gilten, gylten, < AS. gyltan, be 
guilty, < gylt, guilt : see guilt 1 , n.] To commit 
offenses ; act criminally. 
We . . . have offendid and giltid in such a wise agenis 
your heighe lordschipe. 
Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. (Harl. MS.) 
guilt 2 t, ". and v. An obsolete spelling of gilfl 
ity of being guileless ; freedom from deceit or cases; in arch., 
dishonesty. 
' Pride of graybeard wisdom less 
Than the infant's guilelessness. 
Whittier, To my Old Schoolmaster. 
guilert (gi'l^r), n. [< ME. gilour, gylour, < OF. 
guileor, guilour, gileor, gylour, < guiler, guile : 
see guile*, v.] One who betrays by deceit and 
art ; a beguiler. 
namental pattern composed of intersecting 
curved lines, as the usual decoration of watch- 
the guiltiness of a purpose or an act. 
an ornament in 
the form of two 
or more bands 
or ribbons in- 
terlacing or 
braided ortwist- 
ed over each 
other so as to 
In the laste tymes there schulen come gilours wandringe repeat the same figure in a continued series of 
after hu- owne desires not in p.tee Wyclif, Jude 18. ^ The ^ ig applied! but improperly, 
A gylour shal hymself bigyled be. if f O i 
Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 401. j,, [jr , ., - v-,.. r -ci i -17 
So goodly did beguile the guyler of his prey. guillochee (gil-o-she'), v. t. [Formerly gmlles- 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 64. chis, < F. gmllochis, decoration with intersecting 
onic Guilloche, from a column-base of the 
north porch of the Erechtheurn, Athens. 
He thought his flight rather to proceed of a fearful 
guiltiness than of an humble faithfulness. Sir P. Sidney. 
guiltless (gilt'les), a. [< ME. giltles, giltelex, 
gyltles, guttles; < guilt + -less.] 1. Free from 
guilt; innocent; blameless. 
And Pylate . . . toke water and waschide his hondis 
bifore the puple & seide I am giltles of the blood of this 
rightful man. Wyclif, Mat. xxvii. 24. 
I have done with being judged, 
I stand here guiltless in thought, word, and deed. 
Browning, Ring and Book, I. 822. 
2. Free from the presence or experience (of) ; 
in a humorous sense, not subject to the impu- 
tation (of). 
Heifers guiltless of the yoke. Pope, Iliad. 
