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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.

By way of conjecture. Shak.

Conjectural. [Obs.] Feltham.

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

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

To conjecture. [Obs.]

To guess wrongly.

Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.

To be abroad. (a) To be wide of the mark; to be at fault; as, you are all abroad in your guess. (b) To be at a loss or nonplused.

m cxix.). See Abecedarian. Double acrostic, a species of enigma, in which words are to be guessed whose initial and final letters form other words.

To guess or conjecture. [Obs.] Shak.

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

ivals or foes. -- To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. -- Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.

more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

-- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.

One who guesses or conjectures. [Obs.] A great conjector at other men by their writings. Milton.