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for mutual aid and protection; a business fraternity or corporation; as, the Stationers' Guild; the Ironmongers' Guild. They were originally licensed by the government, and endowed with special privileges and authority.

Liable to a tax. [Obs.]

A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.

The hall where a guild or corporation usually assembles; a townhall.

ers thought proper to act as a corporation without a charter, such were called adulterine guilds. Adam Smith.

A confraternity; a guild. [Obs.] Milton.

Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers. The control of trade passed from the merchant guilds to the new craft guilds. J. R. Green.

; specifically, the president of the incorporation of advocates in Edinburgh. -- Dean of guild, a magistrate of Scotch burghs, formerly, and still, in some burghs, chosen by the Guildry, whose duty is to superintend the erection of new buildings and see that they conform to the law. -- Dean of a monastery, Monastic d…

The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild. [Obs.]

A Dutch coin. See Guilder.

irect the movements of a body of infantry, or to make signals at sea; also, the flag of a guild or fraternity. In the United States service, each company of cavalry has a guidon. The pendants and guidons were carried by the officer of the army. Evelyn.

See Guilder.

merchant, one of the few Chinese merchants who, previous to the treaty of 1842, formed a guild which had the exclusive privilege of trading with foreigners.

rivilege granted by the sovereign authority, as the exclusive right of trade granted to a guild or society; a concession.

inter stainer. (a) A painter of coats of arms. Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.

An association, society, guild, or corporation, esp. one capable of having and acquiring property. [Obs.] The universities, or corporate bodies, at Rome were very numerous. There were corporations of bakers, farmers of the revenue, scribes, and others. Eng. Cyc.

Guildhall. [Obs.] Chaucer.