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liberty upon ranfom, who again entered into the fervice 
of Henry, and greatly contributed to feat him on the 
throne. For his reward he was made conftable of Caf- 
tille, duke of Molina, and count of Burgos. On the 
fubfequent rupture between the French and Englilh, 
he returned to the affiftance of his own king, who, in 
1370, entrufted him with the fword of conftable. By 
activity and enterprife he recovered all Poitou, Aunis, 
and Saintpnge. He next attacked Montfort duke of 
Brittany, and obliged him to take refuge in England. 
That prince being afterwards reftored to his dominions* 
fufpicions were thrown upon the conftable as having 
favoured him, and he was for a time in difgrace. The 
king, however, became fenfible of the injuftice done 
him, and the dukes of.Bourbon and Anjou were fent to 
bring him to court. He was placed again at the head 
of an expedition into the fouthern provinces, where 
the Englifh had rallied their forces, and laying fiege to 
ChSteau-neuf de Rendan in Auvergne, he was attacked 
with a mortal difeafe. He foon afterwards expired, in 
July, 1380, at the age of fixty-nine. The Englilh gar- 
rifon, which had conditioned to furrender at a certain 
time, if not relieved, marched out the day after his 
death., and the commander refpe&fully laid the keys of 
the forjtrefs on his bier. His body was conveyed to 
St. Denis with all the ceremonies ufed to fovereigns, 
and depolited in the tomb next to that of the king. 
Kis greateft captains refufed to take, the fword of con¬ 
ftable after it had been borne by fuch a hero. < 
To GUESS, v. a. [ ghi/Jen , Dut.] To conjecture; to 
judge without any certain principles of judgment.— 
You cannot ’guefs who caus’d your father’s death. Shaktf. 
Nor can imagination guefs 
How that ungrateful charming maid 
My pureft paflion has betray’d. Swift. 
To conjecture rightly, or upon Tome juft reafon.T-One 
may guefs by Plato's writings, that he himfelf had a 
right opinion concerning the true God. Stillingfleet. 
To GUESS, v. a. To hit upon by accident; to deter¬ 
mine rightly of any thing without certain direftion of 
■the judgment.—If Xerxes >vas able to call every com¬ 
mon foldier lay his name in his army, it may be guejfed 
lie got not this wonderful ability by learning his lelfon 
by heart. Locke. 
GUESS, f. Conjecture; judgment without any po- 
fitive or certain grounds.—His guejfc was ufually as near 
to prophecy as any man’s. Fell. 
A poet nuift copfefs 
‘ His art’s like phylic, but a happy guefs. Dryden. 
No man is bleft by accident, or guefs: 
True wifdom is the price of happinefs. Young. 
GUESS'ER,yi Conjetturer ; one who judges with¬ 
out certain knowledge.—It is the opinion of divers 
good guejers , that the laft fit will not be more violent 
than advantageous. Pope. 
If fortune Ihould pleafe but to take fuch a crotchet, 
To thee I apply, great Smedley’s fucceflor. 
To give thee lawn fleeves, a mitre and rochet, 
Whom would’ft thou refemble ? I leave thee a guejfer. 
Swift. 
GUES'SINGLY, adv. ConjeCturalfy ; uncertainly. 
Not in ufe —I have a letter guefpngly fet down. Shakejp. 
GUEST, f. [gefT, gift, Sax. gwef, Welfti.] One 
entertained in the ho life or at the table of another.— 
They all murmured, faying, that he was gone to be 
guef with a man that is a tinner. Luke xix. 7. 
Tell my royal guef 
I add to his commands my own requeft. Dryden. 
'A ftranger; one who comes newly to refide : 
Thofe happieft fmiles, 
That play’d on her ripe lip, feem’d not to know 
What guefs were in her eyes ; which parted thence 
As pearls from diamonds dropt. Skakefpe.ve'. 
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GUEST'-CHAMBER, f Chamber of entertainment, 
—Where is the guef -chamber , where I thall eat the pafF- 
over with my difciples ? Mark xiv. 14. 
GUEST'-RITE, f Offices due to a gueft : 
Ulyffes fo dear 
A gift efteem’d it, that he would not beare 
In his black fleete that guef-rite to the war. Chapman. 
GUEST'-ROPE, f. A fea term, a rope to keep a 
boat fteady while the is in tow.. 
GUEST'-TAKER,/. An agiftor; one that took 
cattle in to feed in the king’s foreft. Philips. An old word. 
GUEST'-WISE, adv. In the manner of a gpeft.—My 
heart with her, but as guef-wife, fojourned. Skahefpeare. 
_ GUE'TA, or Hueta, a town of Spain, in New Caf- 
tile, fituated on a fmall river, containing ten pariffies,- 
feven convents, and three hofpitals, faid to have been 
founded 930 years before Chrift : the prefent name, 
which fignifies the Moon, was given by the Moors, from 
whom it was taken by Alphonfo VI. In 1706, it was 
taken by the allies: thirty-four miles weft-north-weft 
*of Cuenpa, and forty-three eaft of Madrid. Lat. 40. 20. 
N. Ion. 13. 52. E.. Peak of Teneriffe. 
GUETA'RIA, a fea-port town of Spain, in the pro¬ 
vince of Guipufcoa, with a good harbour at the mouth 
of the Orio : three leagues weft of St. Sebaftian. 
GUETA'RING, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Carinthia : eight miles north-eaft of St. Veit. 
GUET'ENSTAIN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Carinthia : fix miles fouth of Lavamund, and four¬ 
teen eaft-fouth-eaft of Volkenmarck. 
GUETTARDA, f. [fo named by Linnaeus in ho¬ 
nour of J. Etienne Guettard, member of the academy of 
fciences at Paris, author of Obfervations fur les Plantes , 
1747, &c.] In botany, a genus of the clafs monoecia, 
order heptandria, (hexandria, Swartz,) natural order 
tricoccae, (rubiaceae, JuJf.) The generic characters 
are—Calyx : perianthium one-leafed, cylindric, very 
Ihort, quite entire ; the outer edge more prominent, 
deciduous, (fuperior, Gartner.) Corolla: one-petalled, 
funnel-ftiaped ; tube cylindric, long ; border fix to 
nine cleft, with rounded lobes fhorter than the tube, 
(eight-cleft, JuJf.) I. Male flowers. Stamina: fila¬ 
ments four to fix or feven in the throat of the corolla ; 
antheras linear, (eight, oblong, fubfeffile, J.) Piftil- 
lum : ftyle filiform. II.-Female flowers in the fame 
plant. Piftillum : germ roundifh, inferior; ftyle fili¬ 
form, longer than the ftamens ; ftigma fubovate, (club- 
ffiaped, J.) Pericarpium : drupe dry, roundifh, de- 
preffed, torofe, (with a finous nut, fix-celled, and con¬ 
taining fix feeds, J .) Seeds: nut lobed, celled, perfo¬ 
rated in the periphery for cells : kernels folitary, four 
to fix, roundifh, bent at right angles.— EJfential Character. 
Calyx, cylindric ; corolla, fix or feven cleft, funnel- 
ftiaped; piftillum, one ; drupe, dry. 
Species, x. Guettarda fpeciofa, or handfome guet- 
tardia : leaves fubcordate, ovate, obtufe with a point, 
filky underneath ; flowers with fix or feven ftamens. 
This tree has the habit of Hernandia ; the leaves are 
very large, ovate or obovate, rounded at the end with 
a point, naked, quite entire, with alternate veins; the 
petioles are much lhorter than the leaves, and com- 
preffed. The male flowers are feflile, alternate, from 
the upper fide only of the cyme ; calyxes fomewhat 
tomentofe, fcarcely apparently two-lobed; no germ; 
ftyle fhorter by. half than the tube ; ftigma cylindric- 
headed, obtufe. The female flowers are like the males; 
but have a germ fucceeded by a drupe, containing fix 
large woody feeds, conne&ed together. According to 
Gaertner, the flowers are either hermaphrodite or mo- 
noecous; the ftamens from fix to nine ; the pericarp a 
dry, inferior, berried, drupe, inclofing a bony fhell, 
deeply umbilicat.ed on both fides, and divided into four 
or fix lobes varioufly wrinkled, refembling.that of a 
walnut; perforated in the circumference for the cells. 
Browne obferves that it feldom rife6 above eight or ten 
