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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “GUY”

GUY v. 5 definitions
To steady or guide with a guy.
GUYLE v.
To guile. [Obs.] Spenser.
HEYDEGUY n.
A kind of country-dance or round. [Obs.] Spenser.
PLAGUY a.
Vexatious; troublesome; tormenting; as, a plaguy horse. [Colloq.] Also used adverbially; as, "He is so plaguy proud." Shak.
ROGUY a.
Roguish. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
TIMENOGUY n.
A rope carried taut between or over obstacles likely to engage or foul the running rigging in working a ship.
TONGUY a.
Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker. [Written also tonguey.] [Colloq.]
CHECKY a.
two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, cheguy.]
CLERGY n.
Learning; also, a learned profession. [Obs.] Sophictry . . . rhetoric, and other cleargy. Guy of Warwick. Put their second sons to learn some clergy. State Papers (1515).
DANDIE DINMONT; DANDIE n.
In Scott's "Guy Mannering", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.
DERRICK n.
A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building. Derrick crane, a combination of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally.
DISDEIGN v.
To disdain. [Obs.] Guyon much disdeigned so loathly sight. Spenser.
GUNPOWDER n.
Hence, Nov. 5 is known in England as Guy Fawkes Day. -- Gunpowder tea, a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.
RELIEF n.
The elevations and surface undulations of a country. Guyot. Relief valve, a valve arranged for relieving pressure of steam, gas, or liquid; an escape valve.
SHEARS n.
s of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. [Written also sheers.]
SHIP n.
6 Fore Tacks; 8 Flying Martingale; 9 Martingale Stay, shackled to Dolphin Striker; 10 Jib Guys; 11 Jumper Guys; 12 Back Ropes; 13 Robstays; 14 Flying Jib Boom; 15 Flying Jib Footropes; 16 Jib Boom; 17 Jib Foottropes; 18 Bowsprit; 19 Fore Truck; 20 Fore Royal Mast; 21 Fore Royal Lift; 22 Fore Royal Yard; 23 Fore Royal B…
WHISKER n.
Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.