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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Guide

Guide (guide)
v. t.(?)
Guide
[imp. *** p. p. Guided] p. pr. *** vb. n. Guiding.] [OE. guiden, gyden, F. guiaer, It. guidare] prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. ritan to watch over, giv
  1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.

    I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your sovereign's court. Shak.

  2. To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.

    He will guide his affairs with discretion. Ps. cxii. 5.

    The meek will he guide in judgment. Ps. xxv. 9.


Guide

Guide (guide)
n.
Guide
  1. A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
  2. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of life; a director; a regulator.

    He will be our guide, even unto death. Ps. xlviii. 14.

  3. Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator
    ; as: (a) (Water Wheels)
  4. A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directing flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
    Farrow.

    Guide bar (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead slides, and by which the motion of the piston rod is kept parallel to the cylinder, being a substitute for the parallel motion; -- called also guide, and slide bar. -- Guide block (Steam Engine), a block attached in to the crosshead to work in contact with the guide bar. -- Guide meridian. (Surveying) See under Meridian. -- Guide pile (Engin.), a pile driven to mark a place, as a point to work to. -- Guide pulley (Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing the line of motion of belt; an idler. Knight. -- Guide rail (Railroads), an additional rail, between the others, gripped by horizontal driving wheels on the locomotive, as a means of propulsion on steep gradients.














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