guiltless 
I turned out of :; small square, in front of the hotel, ami 
walked up a narrow, sloping street, paved with big, rough 
stones and guiltletts of a foot-way. 
//. Jaiiien, Jr., Little Tour, p. 76. 
guiltlessly (gilt'les-li), adv. In a guiltless inau- 
iier ; so as to be without guilt, 
guiltlessness (gilt'les-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being guiltless ; innocence. 
A good number, trusting to their number more than to 
their value, and valuing money higher than equity, felt 
that guiltlessness is not always with ease oppressed. 
Sir P. Sidney. 
guilt-sick (gilt'sik), a. Sickened by conscious- 
ness of guilt. 
Then we live Indeed, 
When we can go to rest without alarm 
Given every minute to a guilt-sick conscience 
To keep us waking. 
Beau, and Fl., Custom of the Country, iv. 
guilty (gil'ti), a. [< ME. gilty, gylty, gulty, gel- 
ty, < AS. gyltig, guilty, < gylt, guilt: see guilt 1 , 
.] 1. Having incurred guilt; not innocent; 
morally or legally delinquent; culpable; spe- 
cifically, having committed a crime or an of- 
fense, or having violated a law, civil or moral, 
by an overt act or by neglect, and by reason of 
that act or neglect liable to punishment. 
As the Fyre began to brenne aboute hire, sche made hire 
Preyeres to oure Lord, that als wissely as sche was not 
gylty of that Synne, that he wold helpe hire. 
Manaemllf, Travels, p. 9. 
'Tis the guilty trembles 
At horrors, not the Innocent. 
Ford, Lady's Trial, !v. 1. 
Mark'd you not 
How that the guilty kindred of the queen 
l.i ink 'd pale when they did hear of Clarence' death? 
SAo*., Kich. III., IL 1. 
2. Characterized by or constituting guilt or 
criminality; of a culpable character; wicked: 
as, a guilty deed; a guilty intent. 
Nothing so good, but that through guilty shame 
May be corrupt, and wrested unto ill. 
Spenser, In Honour of Beautie, 1. 157. 
I have ta'en a due and wary note upon 't, 
With whispering and most guilty diligence. 
Shale., M. for M., iv. 1. 
3. Pertaining or relating to guilt; indicating 
or expressing guilt ; employed in or connected 
with wrong-doing. 
This said, his guilty hand pluck'd up the latch, 
And with his knee the door he opens wide. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 35S. 
She [Naturel wooes the gentle air 
To hide her guilty front with innocent snow. 
Hilton, Nativity, 1. 39. 
4f. Liable ; owing ; liable to the penalty : with 
of. 
They answered and said, He Is guilty of death. 
Mat xxvl. 6. 
Gods of the liquid realms on which I row, 
If, given by you, the laurel bind my brow, 
Assist to make me guilty of my vow. Dryden. 
guimbard(gim'bard),. [F.guiwbarde; origin 
unknown.] The jew's-harp. [Rare.] 
guimpe (gimp), n. [P.: see gimp 1 .'] A chemi- 
sette worn with a low or square-necked dress. 
guimplet, . [OF. : see wimple.'] A small flag 
carried on the shaft of a lance. See gisemc 
and guidon. 
guinea (gin'e), n. [In def. 1 (and 2), formerly 
g ninny : so called because first coined of gold 
brought from Guinea on the west coast of Afri- 
ca. The name of the district (formerly also writ- 
ten Ginny, Ginnie; Sp. Pg. Guind, P. Guinfo) 
appears to have been derived through the Por- 
tuguese in the 14th century from Jenne or Jinnie, 
a trading-town.] 1. An English gold coin, of 
Obverse. Reverse. 
Guinea of Charles II., 16631 British Museum. (Size of the original.) 
the value of 21 shillings, first issued by Charles 
II. in 1663, and by his successors till 1813, since 
which year it has not been coined. Five-guinea 
pieces, two-guinea pieces, half- and quarter-guinea pieces 
have also been current gold coins in England. 
In the arrangement of coins I proposed, I ought to 
have inserted a gold coin of five dollars, which, being 
within two shillings of the value of a guinea, would be 
very convenient Je/erson, Correspondence, I. 294. 
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honour 
feels. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. 
2652 
2. A money of account, of the value of 21 shil- 
lings, still often used in English reckonings. 
3. A guinea-fowl. [Colloq.] 
Guinea-cloth (gin'o-kloth), . A collective 
name of textiles of different kinds made for 
trade with the West African coast ; originally, 
such cloths made in India. 
guinea-COck (gin'e-kok), n. [Formerly also 
t/tiinnie-cock, ginnie-cock.~\ The male of the 
guinea-fowl. 
guinea-corn (giu'e-korn), n. See corn 1 . 
guinea-droppert (gin'e-drop'er), . One who 
cheats by dropping counterfeit guineas. 
Who now the guinea-dropper's bait regards, 
Trick'd by the sharper's dice or juggler's cards. 
Gay, Trivia, ill. 
guinea-edge (giu'e-ej), n. In bookbinding, the 
edge of a book-cover decorated with a pattern 
like that of the edge of the old guinea coin. 
guinea-fowl (gin'e-foul), . An African gal- 
linaceous bird of the subfamily Numidina; a 
pintado. There are 12 or 14 species, of different gen- 
era, the best-known of which is Numida meleagris, now 
domesticated everywhere, and commonly called guinea- 
hen. It is of about the size of the common domestic hen, 
and has a short strong bill with a wattle hanging down at 
each side, the head naked and surmounted by a fleshy 
crest The color of usual varieties is a dark gray, beauti- 
fully variegated with a profusion of small white spots ; 
whence the ancient Latin and modern specific name me- 
leagrii, the spots being fancifully taken for the tears shed 
by the sisters of Meleager at his fate. Partial and perfect 
albinos also occur in domestication. The guinea-fowl was 
well known to the Romans, and has long been common in 
poultry-yards. Both flesh and eggs are esteemed as food. 
See .\iinii(titnt', Acryllium, Guttera, and Phasidus. 
guinea-goose (gin'e-gos), n. See goose. 
guinea-grains (gin v e-granz), n. pi. Same as 
grains of paradise (which see, under grain 1 ). 
guinea-grass (gin'e-gris), H. The Panicum 
maximum, a coarse tropical grass of Africa, in- 
troduced into many warm countries and ex- 
tensively cultivated in the West Indies for pas- 
turage. It is very nutritious. 
guinea-green (gin'e-gren), . Same as acid- 
yreen. 
guinea-lien (giu'e-hen), . [Formerly also 
guinnie-hen, ginnie-hen.'] 1. Same as guinea- 
fowl. 
In the orchard adjacent the guinea-hens have clustered 
into a knot, and keep up a steady and unanimous potrack ! 
potrack! IK. it. Baker, New Timothy, p. 128. 
2. A courtezan. [Old slang.] 
Ere I would . . . drown myself for the love of a Guinea- 
hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon. 
Shak., Othello, i. :;. 
3. A species of fritillary, Fritillaria Meleagris, 
the petals of which are spotted like the guinea- 
fowl Guinea-hen weed, a West Indian name for the 
J'ft/rt/-ia alliacea, an acrid phytolaccaceous herb with a 
garlic-like odor. 
Guinea hog. See hog. 
Guineaman (gin'e-man), M. ; pi. Gnineamen 
(-men). A ship used in trading to the coast of 
Guinea. 
Guinean (gin'e-an), a. [< Guinea (see def.) + 
-.] Of or pertaining to Guinea, a region ex- 
tending more than 3,500 miles along the west 
coast of Africa, divided into Upper and Lower 
Guinea, and including the Grain, Ivory, Gold, 
and Slave coasts, and many native kingdoms 
and European possessions Guinean subregion, 
in zoogeog., a subdivision of the Ethiopian region, begin- 
ning on the west coast of Africa where the Libyan subre- 
gion ends, comprising an extent of seaboard from Sierra 
Leone about to Angola, and of unknown extent in the in- 
terior. A. Newton, Encyc. Brit, III. 75& 
Guinea peach, pepper, plum, etc. See the 
nouns. 
guinea-pig (gin'e-pig), n. [The guinea-pig (def. 
1) does not come from Guinea, and lias no- 
thing to do with the pig. The name may involve 
some comparison with the guinea-fowl ; or the 
first element may be intended for Guiana, ad- 
jacent to Brazil, where the animal is found.] 
1. The domestic form, in several varieties, of 
the restless cavy, Cavia aperea, a Brazilian ro- 
dent of the family Caviidce. The black, white,"and 
tawny individuals seen in confinement are supposed by 
some to be a distinct species, and called ( '. cooaya ; but 
they are more generally believed to be modified descen- 
dants of the wild species. These cavies are readily tamed, 
and are noted for their extraordinary fecundity. 
The genus Cavia Includes numerous species more or 
less like the common guinea-trig, though none of the wild 
ones resemble the piebald individuals commonly seen in 
confinement ... In domestication, the guinea-pig is 
probably the most prolific of mammals, the periods of ges- 
tation and lactation being remarkably brief, the litters 
large, and procreation almost continual 
Stand. Sat. Hist., V. 83. 
2. The boschvark, Potamochterus africanus. 
3. One whose fee is a guinea: a punning name, 
guise 
applied in the quotation to a veterinary sur- 
geon. Dai'ii*. 
"Oh, oh," cried Tat, "how my hand itches, 
Thou guinea pig in boots and breeches, 
To trounce thee well." Combe, Dr. Syntax, iii. 4. 
guinea-worm (giu'e-werm), ii. A formidable 
parasitic nematode or threadworm, Filaria u- 
ilinensis, of extreme tenuity, from a few inches 
to several feet long, often infesting the human 
body, especially in hot countries. See Filuriu . 
guiniad, . See gwyniad. 
guipure (ge-pur') ( . [F. guipure, guipure, 
gimp: see gimp 1 .'] 1. (a) Originally, a lace 
made of cords of a certain stoutness, each com- 
posed of several threads laid side by side, or 
of a strip of stuff or of parchment (see car- 
tisane), and wound completely with thread. 
These cords were either arranged so as to touch one ano- 
ther and be sewed together often enough for solidity, or 
were maintained by means of brides or bars. Hence 
(b) A species of gimp: discriminated from (a) 
only in having the cords made stouter (some- 
times of wire) and the pattern formal and regu- 
lar. In the above senses the full term should 
be dentclle a guipure. 2. (a) In later use, any 
lace made in imitation of the ancient lace 
(a), usually rather large in pattern. Also called 
Cluny guipure. Hence (6) Any lace having 
no ground or mesh, but with the pattern main- 
tained by brides or bars only : in this sense used 
very loosely Cluny guipure, modern lace or passe- 
ment imitating that of the sixteenth or early seventeenth 
century, having a formal and even geometrical design, 
and usually of rather huge pattern. The term is applied 
to such work whether hand-made or machine-made. 
Filet guipure. Same as darned lace. See lace. Gui- 
pure Renaissance, a kind of embroidery worked with 
ecru or gray or yellowish silk and coarse cheese-cloth or 
similar materials, of which cloth small pieces are bound 
and ornamented with the silk and made into a sort of 
mosaic or openwork pattern. Sixty- knotted guipure, 
a fine Irish fancy work similar to crochet, first exhibited 
in 1851. Tape guipure, a manufacture in which flat 
strips of stuff or tapes woven for the purpose replace the 
round cord of guipure 2 (a) and 2 (6). 
Guiraca (gwi-ra'ka), n. [NL. (Swainson, 1827), 
from a native ( Mex. ) name . ] A genus of Amer- 
ican grosbeaks, of the family Fringillidce, con- 
taining such as the blue grosbeak, G. ccerulea, 
common in the United States. The male is of a 
rich blue, with black face, wings, and tail, and 2 chest- 
nut wing-bars ; it is Ui to 7 inches long, and 10$ to 11 
inches in extent of wings ; the female is smaller, plain 
brown ; young males when changing arc patched with 
blue and brown. It is not common north of the Middle 
States. It Is a songster, and nests in bushes, vines, and 
low trees, laying four or five very pale bluish eggs. 
guirdt, '. t. An obsolete spelling of gird 1 . 
guirdlet, . An obsolete spelling of girdle 1 . 
guirlandt, guirlondt, n. Obsolete forms of 
garland. 
guisard (gi'zard), . [Also gitizard; < guise 
+ -ard. Cf. guiser.] A guiser; a mummer. 
[Scotch.] 
A high paper cap, with one of their great grandfather's 
antique coats, then equips them [Scotch youths] as a 
guisard. Hone's Etery-day Book, II. 18. 
guisarmet, gisannet, . [ME., also gysarme, 
giserne, geserne, etc.; < OF. guisarme, gisarme, 
ffuiserme, guserme, jusarme, gisarne, wisarme = 
Pr. jusarme, gasarma (ML. gisarma) ; prob. of 
Teut. origin.] A long-handled weapon resem- 
bling the pole-ax, or in some cases more nearly 
resembling the halberd, but having a long edge 
for cutting and a straight sharp point in the 
line of the handle. By some authors it is con- 
founded with the pole-ax. 
With swerd, or sparth, or gysarme. 
Rom. of the Rose, L 5978. 
Axes, sperys, and gygarmes gret 
Clefte many a prowt Mannes heed. 
Arthur (ed. FurnivaU), 1. 483. 
Noon durste hym approche ne come vpon the cauchie, 
but launched to hym speres and gyearmes grounden. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 281. 
guise (giz), n. [< ME. guise, usually gise, gyse, 
< OF. guise = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. guisa, way, man- 
ner, guise, < OHG. icisa, MHG. wise, G. weise = 
AS. wise, E. wise, way, manner: see wise%.~] 1. 
Way; manner; mode; fashion; practice; cus- 
tom. 
Thi thresshing floor be not ferre of awaie, 
For beryng and for stelinge, as the gise is 
Of servauntes. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 38. 
To shame the guise o' the world I will begin 
The fashion less without, and more within. 
Shak., Cymbeline, v. 1. 
The swain replied, It never was our guise 
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. Pope. 
2. Manner of acting; mien; cast or behavior. 
Lo you, here she comes ! This is her very guise ; and, 
upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her ; stand close. 
Shak., Macbeth, v. 1. 
