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A sharper; a rogue. [Obs.] J. Webstar.

Same as Gheber.

A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree.

action in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.

Of or pertaining to the family or the facttion of the Guelphs.

One of several long-tailed Oriental monkeys, of the genus Cercocebus, as the green monkey and grivet.

The cheetah.

h a good and a bad sense. Macaulay. So young as to regard men's frown or smile As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot. Byron. He shall, by thy revenging hand, at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies. Knolles.

Worthy of reward. Sir G. Buck.

Without reward or guerdon.

A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and a tuft of the same at the end of the tail. The frontal band, cheeks, and chin are white.

See Guerrilla.

A projecting turret for a sentry, as at the salient angles of works, or the acute angles of bastions.

an plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the island of Guernsey.

taining to, or engaged in, warfare carried on irregularly and by independent bands; as, a guerrilla party; guerrilla warfare.

knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture. First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess. Pope.

A guess warp.

awser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.

Capable of being guessed.

One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.