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By way of conjecture. Shak.

Conjectural. [Obs.] Feltham.

Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

rtained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained without pay. To cheer his gueste, whom he had stayed that night. Spenser. True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest. Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. Pope.

The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

In the manner of a guest.

y small species and varieties of African antelopes, of the genus Cephalophus, as the Cape guevi or kleeneboc (C. pyg. mæa); -- called also pygmy antelope.

us of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.

An acute fever. [Obs.] "Brenning agues." P. Plowman.

nds with, some other thing. The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many. I. Taylor.

Of another sort. [Archaic] It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.

Checking the flow of saliva.

A story or relation of fictitious events, intended to convey some moral truth; a moral fable.

support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton.

One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.

Lit.: Quicksilver; hence: pl. (Mining)

The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.

See Bhang.

A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.