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A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.

Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.

Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.

A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.

One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay.

Hence, to direct the attention or notice of. Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them. Pope.

ding from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supported. (c) A Maypole. See Maypole. (d) A barber's pole, a pole painted in stripes, used as a sign by barbers and hairdressers.

A guide or director.

An upright support or guide fastened at the bottom only. Poppet head, Puppet head. See Headstock (a).

One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used. [Written also postillion.]

d figuratively. Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. Jeffrey.

A guide. [Cuba & Phil. Islands] D. C. Worcester.

To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct. Prescribe not us our duties. Shak. Let streams prescribe their fountains where to run. Dryden.

To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. [Obs.] We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us. Bk. of Common Prayer. Then had I come, preventing Sheba's queen. P…

To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer. The season pricketh every gentle heart. Chaucer. My duty pricks me on to utter that. Shak.

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. Milton.

A leader or guide of souls . J. Fiske.

One of the points sometimes drilled as guides for cutting away superfluous stone.

etters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (ku) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the…

sh alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, and 250-254. "R is the dog's letter and hurreth in the sound." B. Jonson.