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guiden.

Brit. /ɡʌɪd/, U.S. /ɡaɪd/
Forms: Middle English–1500s gyde, guyde, Middle English–1500s gide, (Middle English gydde), 1500s gyd, Scottish gyid, gwyd(e, ( gwide), 1600s guid, 1500s– guide.
Etymology: < French guide, originally feminine, now masculine (except in the plural guides reins), an altered form (first recorded in 14th cent.) of the earlier Old French guie (see guy n.1) = Provençal guida , Italian guida , Spanish guia , Portuguese guia < Common Romance *guida , verbal noun < guidare : see guy v.1 The d of the French word is due to the influence of Provençal or Italian forms.
I. One who guides.
1.
a. One who leads or shows the way, esp. to a traveller in a strange country; spec. one who is hired to conduct a traveller or tourist (e.g. over a mountain, through a forest, or over a city or building) and to point out objects of interest.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > one who guides or leads
way-witterc1275
leadera1300
lodesmanc1300
predecessora1325
guide1362
duistre1393
conduct1423
way-leaderc1450
guiderc1475
conductor1481
leadsmanc1510
janissary1565
Palinurus1567
forerunner1576
convoy1581
mercury1592
pilota1635
accompanier1753
runner1867
1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. viii. 1 This weore a wikked wei bote hose hedde a gyde, That mihte folwen us vch a fote forte that we come there.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xv. 428 Hem..that the heigh weye shulde teche, And be gyde, and go bifore as a good baneoure.
c1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. 84 The lydder gyddes that hym shold lode, slowe hy[m].
1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 227 Item, ffor a gyde ovyr the Wayssche the sayd day, ij.d.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Acts i. C Iudas, which was a gyde of them that toke Iesus.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. x. 122 He which is the guide goeth before mounted on a cammel.
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 7 To ride out in companies with prudent and staid guides, to all the quarters of the land.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iii. 25 As the floods were not yet subsided, we were obliged to hire a guide, who trotted on before.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. i. 31 La Motte wished at first to take a guide.
1806 Feltham Guide Watering Places 27 A Guide shall not demand more than 1s. for each time of bathing.
1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 180 A driver..who will serve as a guide, and be able to give some information about the inns and country through which he has to pass.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 23 I sought to obtain a guide at Kaltebrunnen.
b. transferred and figurative.
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1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 42 Here are they [sc. eyes] guides, which do the Bodie leade; Which else would stumble in eternall night.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 647 The World was all before them..and Providence thir guide . View more context for this quotation
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion v. 234 My feet and hands at length became Guides better than mine eyes.
†c. A director or wielder (of a weapon). Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > wielder or director of weapon
guidec1381
handler1598
director1632
c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 136 Thorw me men gon..Onto the mortal strokis of the spere Of whiche disdayn & daunger is the gyde.
†d. One who controls the movements of an animal or a flock; a driver, keeper. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > drover
drover1384
harrier1591
guide1687
drafter1829
travelling stockman1834
whacker1880
tailer1893
hazer1897
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 22 Each Elephant had his Guide sitting upon his Neck.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 Bulls..Which on Lycæus graze, without a Guide . View more context for this quotation
2.
a. Military. One employed or forced to accompany an invading army, in order to show the way, give information about the enemy's country, position, etc.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier with special duty > [noun] > guide, scout, etc.
waitc1325
runnera1382
scourera1400
exploratorc1429
discovererc1440
waiter?1473
out-spy1488
scurrier1488
aforeridera1525
fore-rider1548
guide?1548
outscourer1548
scout1555
vanquerer1579
outscout1581
outskirrer1625
scouter1642
scoutinger1642
wood-ranger1734
reconnoiterer1752
feeler1834
?1548 Order Prince in Battayll muste Obserue sig. Bvij He muste haue guydes that knowe the countrye.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Guides, are generally the country people in the neighbourhood where the army encamps: they are to give you intelligence concerning the country [etc.].
b. In plural. In certain armies: men formed into companies for guiding and reconnoitring service (see quots.).
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > other branches
language1703
langue1799
guides1802
army intelligence1902
yak corps1904
A.E.F.1914
anti-aircraft1915
RAOC1918
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) Corps des guides, The corps of guides. This body was originally formed in France in the year 1756.
1820 A. Ranken Hist. France VIII. vii. 408 The captain general of his majesty's guides.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 173 In the Indian army the name of ‘Guides’ is given to a regiment of cavalry and infantry attached to the Punjab frontier force. It was raised by the late Sir Henry Lawrence, chiefly with the view to the men acting as scouts.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 76 Then up and spoke the Colonel's son that led a troop of the Guides.
c. One of the two officers of a company, called respectively the right guide and left guide, who superintend the movements of the company, and mark the pivots, formations, etc. in military evolutions. Also: a vessel by the movements of which the others are guided in the manœuvres of a fleet.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier who practises drill or evolution > [noun] > marker
marker1796
guide1870
1870 Field Exercise & Evolutions Infantry (rev. ed.) ii. vi. 59 The commander of the company will be termed ‘the captain’, the senior subaltern, ‘the right guide’, and the junior subaltern ‘the left guide’.
1870 Field Exercise & Evolutions Infantry (rev. ed.) ii. vi. 68 On the word Advance, the guide will select points to march on.
1899 Daily News 21 July 10/3 The meaning of the term ‘Guide of the Fleet’ will now be apparent. The Europa is the only vessel which has nothing to do except go straight ahead on the course set by the Admiral, all the others depending upon her.
d.
(a) Usually with capital initial. A girl aged between about 10 and 16 who is a member of the Guides Association, formerly known as the Girl Guides Association, an organization of girls corresponding to the Scout Association. See Girl Guide n. Also attributive and in other combinations, as Guide camp, Guide-mistress, etc.
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1909 Boy Scouts' Headquarters' Gaz. Nov. 12/2 Each Guide must be able to describe the..flower..and must be able to draw its outline.
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 July 4/5 While he was in that part of the grounds he happened to notice Guide-mistress Miss Leighton in the crowd. He greeted her again, telling her how well he thought the Girl Guides had marched.
1916 Home Chat 30 Sept. 558 For the younger girls who are not eleven, and therefore not old enough to become Girl Guides, the Brownie movement has been started.
1962 Guardian 21 Mar. 6/7 The elder children will..go to Guide camps.
1969 Policy, Organisation & Rules of Girl Guides Assoc. (ed. 33) 40 A Brownie Guide, Guide, or Ranger Guide may belong to only one Unit but may be attached to another.
1971 Guider Oct. 363 May I please make a further appeal..for all Guiders to make sure that their Brownies, Guides and Rangers know all about their respective section magazines.
(b) Guide's honour n. the oath taken by a Guide, used as a protestation of honour and sincerity. transferred in jocular use.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [noun] > vow or oath > of particular type
abjuration?a1439
professing1560
vow of silence1567
oath of allegiance1574
vow1600
affidation1612
abjuration1621
fetish1705
affidature1727
pledge of allegiance1750
abjuration of the realm1768
oath-parole1900
Guide's honour1912
1912 A. Baden-Powell Handbk. Girl Guides i. 38 A Guide's Honour is to be trusted. If a Guide says ‘On my honour it is so’, that means that it is so just as if she had taken a most solemn oath.
1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xv. 135 If there was a fat, thumping falsehood to be propped up, ‘Guide's Honour’ was always promptly evoked.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren viii. 123 Scout's, Cub's, Guide's and Brownie's honour, are the only pledges deliberately sown by adults to have taken root.
1962 ‘A. Lejeune’ Duel in Shadows vii. 96 ‘You must keep this to yourself.’ ‘My dear man,’ she protested. ‘Professional ethics. Guide's honour.’
3.
a. One who directs a person in his ways or conduct; an adviser; †a ruler, leader, governor.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > adviser or counsellor
redesmanOE
counsellor?c1225
reder1340
guidec1385
patronc1400
counselc1405
nurse?a1425
dresserc1450
guidant1495
adviser1575
advisor1589
manuducent1615
consiliary1652
manuductor1657
Dutch uncle1838
referent1844
consultee1855
mantri1873
advisory1880
consigliere1981
society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > one who guides
ruddereOE
guyour13..
lodesmanc1300
guya1375
guidec1385
conduct1423
wisserc1440
guiderc1450
conductor1481
convoyer1488
godfather?1541
pilota1560
compeller1587
godmother1593
prefect1608
Mercurialist1635
society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > a guide or formative agent
guidea1500
formative1907
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 94 Be ye my gyde and lady souereyne.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xxvii. 524 Now god be his gide for his grete pite.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Aiii Seyng the holy lyfe and examples of vertue in their gydes or leaders.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 4053 Agamynon the gret, was gide of hom all, Leder of þo lordis.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 54 Who the guide of nature but only the God of nature?
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxviii. 235 They subiect to the principall guides and leaders of their owne order, and they all in obedience vnder the high Priest.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Guide,..a director of Youth.
1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 17 He coul'd be inabl'd to become our Adviser and Guide.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. vi. 452 They were the spiritual guides of almost every person eminent for rank or power.
1806 Feltham Guide Watering Places 24 Persons of delicate constitutions are frequently recommended by their medical guides to use the bath in the evening.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 139 The course of life that seem'd so flowery to me With you for guide and master.
b. transferred of things.
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14.. That Pes may Stond in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 155 Wolde we be trwe..And lett not falsdom be owre gyde.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 33 Open your eyes to the light of grace, a better guide then Nature.
1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor (1686) i. Ded. I..make my publick Acknowledgements that it may be a Guid to other mens Contentments.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. Introd. p. iii To us, Probability is the very Guide of Life.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 271 Let experiments then and facts be our guides.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 101 They were dangerous guides the feelings.
1880 G. Glenny Year's Wk. in Garden viii. 208 Our selection may be looked upon as a trustworthy guide.
1884 A. R. Pennington Wiclif ix. 286 Scripture is our guide even in matters of ecclesiastical usage.
c. Spiritualism. = control n. 4b.
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the world > the supernatural > the occult > spiritualism > [noun] > a spiritual body > controlling medium
guide1856
control1873
1856 Spiritual Herald July 191 Annie passed into the trance, and said: I can see my guide now, my own guide.
1885 Cent. Mag. 30 381/2 I can't seem to do anything in these days, now that I no longer have a Guide.
1957 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation i. 19 The so-called ‘controls’ or ‘guides’ of mediums... It is considered de rigueur for a professional medium to be under control by a spirit guide.
4. In the titles of books:
a. A book of instruction or information for beginners or novices (in an art, etc.).
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society > communication > book > kind of book > textbook or book of instructions > [noun] > introductory
introductoryc1400
abecedary?a1475
institution1537
introduction1540
horn-book1609
ABC book1611
guide1617
initial1716
primer1722
prolegomenon1786
grammar1792
entrée1926
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas (title page) The Gvide Into Tongves.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed a iv Mr. Thomas Coopers Art of Giving, or a Guide to Charity, in Octavo.
1667 R. H. (title) The Guide in Controversies.
1780 Newgate Cal. V. 146 (note) One little pamphlet, called ‘The Lover's New Guide’.
1879 Mrs. A. G. F. E. James Indian Househ. Managem. 54 I should advise a ‘David's Household and Commercial Guide’.
b. A book of information on places or objects of interest in a locality, city, building, etc.; a guidebook.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > guidebook
itinerarya1552
journal1552
xenagogy1576
itinerario1588
periegesis1591
journey-book1610
wayfaring-book1610
itinerarium1747
guide1759
ambulator1774
guidebook1814
tour-book1824
travel guide1881
tourist guide1924
1759 (title) The New Oxford Guide; or, Companion through the University.
1766 C. Anstey (title) The new Bath guide.
1781 (title) The Cheltenham Guide: or, useful companion, in a journey..to the Cheltenham Spa.
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI l. 89 Once she was seen reading the ‘Bath Guide’.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 183 On entering a great city, a stranger usually [visits] the booksellers' shops, in search of some descriptive guide which may assist him in exploring.
figurative.1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. vi. 147 He was a walking guide, a living hand-book to fashionable London.
II. Something that guides.
5. gen.
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1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 19 The directions they gave from the Shore, was a great guide to those poor people who were still in the Sea.
1721 J. Perry Acct. Stopping Daggenham Breach 51 Any sort of Timber work..cannot bed close, and must be a guide to Leakage.
1749 Acct. Voy. for Discov. North-west Passage II. 322 Concealing the true Reason that they [Charts] might be no Guides to others.
6.
a. Mechanics. Something which serves to steady or direct the motion of a thing, and upon, through, or against which it moves, slides, or is conducted in the required direction; esp. a bar, rod, etc. which guides or ‘bears’ machinery having reciprocating motion; often in plural; spec. (in the Steam engine) the rods on which the cross-head of the piston slides; also called cross-head guides (see cross-head n. 1); (in Mining) the bars or rails which guide the cage up and down the shaft. (See also quot. 1844.)
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > other parts > [noun] > guides
guide1763
quadrant1836
strap-fork1902
1763–6 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 57 [Wire-drawing.] Directed by means of a small conical hole in a piece of iron, called a guide.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 427 Each spinner splices his thread, and throws it on the nearest guide, to keep it out of the way, and to conduct it to the winding-machine.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 500 If flax..be passed into the machine..through a guide..and be conducted [etc.].
1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. Guides of a waggon, felly-pieces or arcs of circles fastened on the fore axle as a bearing for the bed of the waggon when it locks.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 597 There is a guide to prevent the lateral displacement of the edges.
1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 612 The distance between each couple of guides is just sufficient to admit of a cage working up and down between them.
1879 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. (new ed.) I: Pt. i. §424 The nut, if prevented by fixed guides from rotating, will move in the direction of the common axis.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 143 Guides, the holes in a cross-beam through which the stems of the stamps in a stamp-mill rise and fall.
1894 Outing 24 227/1 A useful rod for fly-fishing..may be equipped with either rings and keepers or standing guides.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 43 The rod's return whings glimmerin' through the guides.
b. Something which guides a tool or the work operated upon; spec. (in Oval-turning) (see quots. 1680, 1877); (in Iron-rolling) (see quot. 1881); (in Surgery) a director; (in Boring) (see quot. 1883).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > [noun] > guides
guide1680
guideline1785
guider1825
ways1835
saddle1866
interpolator1953
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiv. 236 For then as the Treddle-Wheel carries the Axis about, the Guide being firmly fastned upon the Axis, comes also about; and having the Groove of the Guide-pulley set against the outer edge of the Guide, as the..small Diameter of the Guide comes to the Guide-pulley, the small Diameter of the Work is Formed; and as the great Diameter of the Guide comes to the Guide-pulley, the great Diameter of the Work is formed.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 72 At the end of the mandrel..there is a screw..the thread of which is like that intended to be made. Upon this screw, called the guide, is fitted a piece of wood.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 860 A ledge or guide..to conduct the metal and to regulate the breadth of the piece to be cut off.
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 354 A guide being placed upon the drill.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1984/1 If an oval or elliptical pattern be required, it may be obtained by means of an eccentric guide or ring of brass fastened to the puppet of the lathe.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 143 In a rolling-mill a guide is a wedge-shaped piece held in the groove of a roll to prevent the sticking of the bar by peeling it out of the groove.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining (at cited word) Guides..A boring-rod having an enlargement or wings fitted to it to suit the size of the borehole for steadying the rods when a considerable depth has been attained.
1892 A. Powell Southward's Pract. Printing 426 Setting the Guides..Having ascertained these places, and marked them with a pencil, affix guides (which serve the place of the pins in the tympan of the hand press). These are also called ‘gauges’ and ‘lay marks’.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. xxiii. 372 These tubes he introduces by means of a special guide.
7. Something which marks a position or serves to guide the eye.
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] > identifying a position
markc1392
guide1875
sub-target1901
1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 45 Guide, a piece of heavy rule or lead, balanced by a light cord and a quotation, laid upon the copy to assist the compositor in keeping the connexion.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Guide, a pile driven to mark a site.
8. Music. = dux n. 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [noun] > fugue > subject
principal1597
dux1740
guide1753
proposition1876
subject2005
diminished subject-
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Guida, in the Italian music, the guide, or leading voice or instrument, in fugues.
1846 W. M. Buchanan Technol. Dict. Guide in music, the leading part in a canon or fugue.
9. Mining. A cross-course or -vein.
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > vein > crossing
side basset1686
cross-course1802
guide1874
1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) iv. 27 In St. Just, the cross veins are known as trawns, or guides.
10. dialect. A sinew or tendon. Cf. guider n. 2c.
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1881 in Leicestersh. Gloss.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words ‘The guide's off’—that is, the tendon is dislocated.
11. A linear structure (as a pair of wires or a waveguide) or a surface along or over which an electromagnetic wave is propagated and to which it is confined. Now usually short for wave guide n.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > [noun] > wavelength > device for guiding
guide1893
wave guide1936
1893 O. Heaviside Electromagn. Theory I. iv. 399 When waves are left to themselves in ether without the presence of conductors, they expand and dissipate themselves... To prevent this we require conducting guides or leads..as a pair of parallel wires.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 215/1 The effects of the resistance of the guides are very complicated in general.
1936 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 15 284 Extremely high-frequency waves may be transmitted from one point to another, through specially constructed wave guides. The guide..may be a hollow copper pipe.
1947 W. H. Watson Physical Princ. Wave Guide Transmission p. v A dielectric cylinder may also be used to guide electromagnetic waves of sufficiently high frequency and is usually called a dielectric guide.
1962 D. R. Corson & P. Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields xii. 424 The guide wave length..is longer than the free space wave length.
III. The action of guiding.
12. The action of guide v., in various senses; direction; conduct; guidance. Now rare.
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society > authority > control > [noun] > guidance
wissingc1000
rightingOE
guidance?1548
guide1568
guidementa1578
aim1597
chalking1613
sterning1638
light or leading1644
pilotry1842
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 198 Off gyd and gouirnance we ar all solitair.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. x. 288 My Lords the Duke and Hereis baith Wer put in waird..Quhair thay are zit..And will be quhill sum men get ye gyde.
1602–3 Sir E. Stanhope Will in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 672 I comende..this Famous Colledge..to the guide and governement of the most holie and Blessed Trinitie.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xvii. 273 A man renown'd For guard of goats, which now he had in guide.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 246 Pray entertaine them, giue them guide to vs. View more context for this quotation
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Disc. vii. §3 Whether we come..by the guide of an angel or the conduct of Moses.
1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia vii. 64 Under the guide of these principles..the Bible pneumatology stands before us clear.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Guide , guidance. ‘That mon dunna sem to have much guide on his hoss’.

Compounds

C1. Simple attributive.
a.
† guide-text n. Obsolete
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1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 140 According to the two former guid-texts of 2 Tim. 3. 16, & Rom. 15. 4.
b. Chiefly in the names of technical appliances and parts of machinery. (See senses 6, 7.)
guide-bar n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 846 Small upright guide-bars or rods for one of the corves.
guide-blade n.
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1860 W. Cullen Constr. Turbine 8 By means of curved guide blades the quantity and direction of water are regulated and guided into the radiating passages of the wheel.
guide-chain n.
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1865 J. T. F. Turner Familiar Descr. Old Delabole Slate Quarries 8 Chains..which..as they guide the course of the loads, are termed guide-chains.
guide-curve n.
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1853 J. Glynn Treat. Power Water 43 The pressure of the water is directed by the vanes or guide-curves of the upper wheel into the buckets of the lower one.
guide-eye n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1240 The yarn..finally proceeds obliquely downwards..after traversing the guide-eye.
guide-face n.
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1889 P. N. Hasluck Model Engineer's Handybk. 59 The guide-faces may be got up with a file.
guide-frame n.
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1901 P. Marshall Metal Working Tools 44 A rising and falling guide-frame.
1936 Economist 18 Jan. 150/2 The first all-welded spiral guide~frames gasholder to be built in this country is now in course of erection at Newhaven.
guide-framing n.
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1900 Engin. Mag. 19 781/1 The Guide-Framing of Gasholders.
guide-groove n.
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1903 Brit. & Col. Printer 19 Nov. 12/2 The ends slide in parallel guide-grooves.
guide-iron n.
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1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Guide Iron, a piece of iron rod,..which being put to the contour of a curved pattern pipe, becomes a guide by which the core maker strickles up its core without requiring a core-box.
guide-ledge n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 922 The oblong brush with guide ledges is dipped into them [long, narrow colour-pans] across the whole of the parallel row at once.
guide-piece n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1293 The guide pieces connected with the axletrees.
guide-pile n.
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1791 R. Mylne 2nd Rep. Navigation Thames 11 At the upper End of it [the Pen], four Guide Piles are wanting.
guide-pin n.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 428 The guide pins are..driven into the beam.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 922 Paper-hangings.—Printing. Each block carries small pin points fixed at its corners to guide the workman in the insertion of the figure exactly in its place. An expert hand places these guide pins so that their marks are covered..by the impression of the next block.
guide-plate n.
ΚΠ
1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Ramps, or Guide Plates,..clip the rails, and are provided with flat helical extensions against which the wagon wheels slide up to the rail.
1889 G. Findlay Working & Managem. Eng. Railway 104 Cross pieces connecting the axle-box guide plates.
guide-rail n.
ΚΠ
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 501 The heckle bars..are..supported at their ends by fixed horizontal guide rails, on which they slide.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Guide-rail, in railways, an additional rail placed midway between the two ordinary rails of the track, and employed in connection with devices on the engine or carriages to keep a train from leaving the track in curves, crossings, or steep gradients.
guide-ring n.
ΚΠ
1883 Cent. Mag. July 378/1 He rove the line through the guide-rings [of a fishing-rod].
guide-rod n.
ΚΠ
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1287 These..should slide freely on their guide-rods.
1860 All Year Round 12 May 103 Baskets that would rarely be dangerous if they were caged and supplied with proper guide-rods.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 425 The ‘Hercules’ [hammer], a ponderous mass of iron attached to a vertical guide rod.
guide-roller n.
ΚΠ
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 221 It [the endless felt] is led over a guide roller.
guide-stick n.
ΚΠ
1760 S. Pullein in Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 22 To change the position of the silk thread, that it might not always fall on the same part of the reel, the guidestick was introduced.
guide-timbers n.
ΚΠ
1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 591 The frame of the cage has clips which extend upon each side of the guide timbers.
guide-wire n.
ΚΠ
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 399 Guide-wires for the threads to pass over.
C2.
guide-block n. a ‘block’ or piece of metal which slides between or upon guides or guide-bars.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > sliding
slidec1608
slider1681
traveller1761
slide action1848
guide-block?1865
slipper1903
?1865 Z. Colburn in Z. Colburn et al. Locomotive Engin. (1871) v. 128/2 A pair of guide blocks.
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 127 The breech-piece..is furnished with a guide-block on its upper surface, which works between the two lips of the shoe.
guide-board n. a board erected at a fork in a road, for the direction of travellers.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > signpost or stone
Mercury's finger1589
signpost1597
mercurial statue1638
way-post1647
mercury1668
mercury's statue1684
mercurial stone1716
waywiser1725
guide-post1761
cross in the hands1762
fingerpost1762
guide stone1762
handpost1764
parson1785
fingerboard1793
direction-post1795
guide-board1810
signboard1829
handing-post1837
directing-post1876
1810 M. van H. Dwight Jrnl. 27 Oct. in Journey to Ohio (1912) 13 Soon after we cross'd the mountain, we took a wrong road, owing to the neglect of those whose duty it is to erect guide boards.
1872 W. S. Plumer Short Serm. 38 The guide went a little way to the one side and there he found one of the guide-boards, which were in the shape of a cross.
1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 561/2 He came to a fork in the road where there was no guide-board.
guide card n. (see quot. 1923).
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society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > indexing > index > card index > dividing card
guide card1923
1923 H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery 35 Guide cards, a segment of the card index and vertical filing system. Guide cards, or guiders, are stiff manilla cards, usually in distinctive colourings and provided with projecting tabs..and the purpose of the cards is to act as dividers, or indicators.
1969 R. L. Collison Indexes & Indexing (ed. 3) i. 27 In the case of 5 in. by 3 in. cards, suitably printed guide cards of this description can be purchased,..and there are also larger sets of guide cards which can break up the sequence into any number of parts.
guide coat n. (see quot. 1953).
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society > occupation and work > industry > decorating and painting > [noun] > painting > coat of paint > specific coats
first coat?1600
overcoating1855
undercoat1873
base coat1907
undercoating1922
guide coat1930
overpaint1944
wash coat1951
overcoat1959
1930 Motor Body Building May 105/1 Guide coat, the staining coat put on top of the filling as a guide to rubbing down.
1937 Times 13 Apr. p. xiii/1 The various stages.., therefore, are as follows:—First coat of primer, or foundation coat; first, second, third, and fourth coat of oil filler; guide coat for rubbing down; oil filler, [etc.].
1953 Gloss. Paint Terms (B.S.I.) 8 Guide coat, a very thin coat of loosely bound paint applied over a continuous coating of surfacer or filler, prior to rubbing down... It serves as a guide to the operator in producing a smooth surface.
guide dog n. a dog trained to lead the blind.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > miscellaneous types of
dancer1576
truffle dog1760
truffler1783
truffle hound1796
pack dog1844
war-dog1852
dog soldier1869
guide dog1932
sniffer dog1964
emotional support dog1993
1932 Proc. World Conference on Work for Blind 1931 183 (caption) Guide dogs for the blind.
1944 D. Hartwell Dogs against Darkness 7 The modern guide dog provided by the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association is of the very greatest use.
1944 D. Hartwell Dogs against Darkness 161 The majority of Guide Dogs in England are now types of British sheep~dogs.
1960 News Chron. 13 Jan. 5/6 Margaret Barber, 21, blind since she was six, was promised a guide dog.
guide-feather n. = cock feather n. ( Cent. Dict.).
guide fossil n. (see quots.).
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the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of
astroite1610
belemnite1646
mussel-stone1660
scallop-stone1668
trochite1676
conchite1677
ophiomorphite1677
pectinite1677
worm-stone1677
musculite1681
serpent-stone1681
sugar-plum1681
glossopetraa1684
ague shell1708
forket1708
mytilite1727
grit1748
phytolithus1761
fairy beads1767
fairy fingers1780
fairy arrow1794
gryphite1794
ram's horn1797
hysterolite1799
tubulite1799
thunder-pick1801
celleporite1808
ceraunite1814
seraph1822
serpulite1828
coprolite1829
subfossil1831
pencil1843
trigonellite1845
buccinite1852
rudist1855
guide fossil1867
witch's cradle1867
coccolith1868
fairy cheeses1869
discolith1871
Portland screw1871
spiniferite1872
cyatholith1875
cryptozoon1883
sabellite1889
palaeospecies1895
homoeomorph1898
rudistid1900
megafossil1932
scolecodont1933
macrofossil1937
hystrichosphere1955
palynomorph1961
acritarch1963
molecular fossil1965
mitrate1967
1867 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 23 p. xlviii The various divisions..were to be recognized in all countries by special guide-fossils.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Guide-fossil, a fossil species regarded as specially characteristic of a given geological formation, horizon, or fauna.
1914 Schuchert & Barrell in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 38 6 In the chronologic correlation of the stratified rocks most dependence is put upon a few species, known as ‘guide fossils’, together with the collateral evidence of associated forms. These guide fossils may be represented by many or few individuals.
1957 C. O. Dunbar & J. Rodgers Princ. Stratigr. xvi. 279/1 A good guide fossil should have relatively wide geographic distribution and limited stratigraphic range.
1961 J. Challinor Dict. Geol. 97/1 Guide fossil, a species (or genus) or fossil useful as a guide to stratigraphical horizon or to the conditions under which the organism lived.
guide-law n. (see quot. 1605).
ΚΠ
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence v. 137 There remaines yet a tolle called Guyd-law, which is paid for catel at Bowdumbar, a gate of the citie so called, and was first graunted for the payment of guydes.
guide letter n. (see quot. 1960).
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society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > [noun] > decorated letters > letter in place of
guide letter1931
1931 A. F. Johnson Decorative Init. Lett. 6 Zainer's first outline initials were probably intended as guide-letters for the rubricator.
1960 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. 162 Guide letters, small letters inserted in the otherwise blank space left for an illuminated, historiated, or rubricated capital to be executed by hand after a work had been printed: a feature of early printed books and still earlier manuscripts.
guide mill n. (see quot. 1892).
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1892 Labour Commission Gloss. at Mills Guide mills, the mills in which is finished small merchant iron.
1904 J. W. Hall in Harbord & Hall Metallurgy of Steel xvi. 311 The term ‘guide mill’ is reserved for mills in which the bar could not be properly entered with the workmen's tongs, and must have a guide to hold the bar on edge when it is being entered.
guide number n. Photography (see quot. 1962).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > action of taking photograph > technical factors > [noun] > flash > number or time
guide number1948
recycling time1956
1948 A. L. M. Sowerby Dict. Photogr. (ed. 17) 317 at Flash bulbs The figures given are guide-numbers; by dividing these by the distance..between object and flash the stop to be used is given directly.
1959 L. A. Mannheim Successful Flash Photogr. 44 Guide numbers vary with film speed.
1962 M. L. Haselgrove Photographers' Dict. 120 Manufacturers of flash bulbs specify a guide number for each bulb to be used in conjunction with a given shutter speed and given film. This..simplifies the matter of determining what aperture to use to obtain the correct exposure for any given subject at a known distance from the flash bulb.
guide-pulley n. (a) Oval-turning a pulley by means of which motion is communicated to the guide (sense 6b); (b) a pulley over which a band or cord is passed, where its course is altered or where it needs support.
ΚΠ
1680Guide-pulley [see sense 6b].
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 428 One of the guide pullies for the endless rope.
guide-rope n. †(a) = guy n.1 2; (b) a small rope attached to an object to be raised or lowered by a crane or pulley, in order to guide it; (c) Aeronautics a long rope hung from a balloon or small airship so as to trail along the ground and to preserve altitude automatically by the drag of the rope without loss of ballast or gas; (also) one of a number of ropes used to steady an airship before flight.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting rope
guide-ropec1400
stayc1515
guy1620
guide-tackle1665
side rope1726
guy-rope1793
guy-rod1903
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > balloons and airships > [noun] > guide rope
trail-rope1826
guideline1836
guide-rope1838
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 105 Gederen to þe gyde ropes, þe grete cloþ falles.
1730 J. T. Desaguliers in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 195 A small Rope, call'd the Guide-Rope, is fasten'd to the Weight.
1838 M. Mason Aeronautica 23 An incident connected with the use of this guide-rope.
1848 Chambers's Jrnl. 6 May 301/2 Mr. Green as a substitute, uses a long rope, called the ‘guide-rope’.
1897 Strand Mag. 13 227/2 One rope (the guide-rope) is securely tied to this crow-bar, and then thrown on the cliff.
1903 Strand Mag. 27 June 476/2 A life-saving kite. The kite carries a guide-rope.
1928 Daily Express 12 Oct. 2/2 Four hundred sinewy fists released their hold on the guide-ropes that still leashed the mammoth [Zeppelin] to earth.
guide-rope v. intransitive to use a guide-rope.
ΚΠ
1904 Pall Mall Mag. 32 20 One can guide-rope in the centre of Paris.
1905 Spectator 11 Mar. 371/1 I hopped over the trees of the Bois..and guide-roped down the Avenue des Champs Elysées to my door at the corner of the Rue Washington.
guide-screw n. a screw-thread in a screw-cutting lathe which regulates the thread of the screw being cut.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > machine for cutting screw-threads > guide
guide-screw1815
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 73 A concave screw in the end of the mandrel, to which any variety of convex or guide screws may then be alternately attached.
1863 S. Smiles Industr. Biogr. 240 He made a turning-lathe with a sliding mandrill, and guide-screws, for cutting screws, furnished also with the means for correcting guide-screws.
guide seam n. Coal Mining (see quot. 1867).
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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > stratum or bed > of coal > type of coal seam
foot coal1665
foot-rid1665
top coal1803
ten-yard coal1839
rider1840
ten-foot coal1855
top-hard1855
yard-coal1855
yard-seam1862
guide seam1867
main1867
bank1881
rearer1883
thick coal1883
thick seam1883
thin seam1883
1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 79 There are here no less than 117 seams..of coal..They are now recognised and mapped over the entire district by the aid of three or four guide-seams of special character and persistence.
guide stone n. a stone set up by the wayside to direct travellers.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > signpost or stone
Mercury's finger1589
signpost1597
mercurial statue1638
way-post1647
mercury1668
mercury's statue1684
mercurial stone1716
waywiser1725
guide-post1761
cross in the hands1762
fingerpost1762
guide stone1762
handpost1764
parson1785
fingerboard1793
direction-post1795
guide-board1810
signboard1829
handing-post1837
directing-post1876
1762 J. Hall-Stevenson Crazy Tales 41 Guides as blind as a guide-stone.
guide-tackle n. a rope secured to the top of a pole, etc., to steady it.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting rope
guide-ropec1400
stayc1515
guy1620
guide-tackle1665
side rope1726
guy-rope1793
guy-rod1903
1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 214 A Pair of Shears..having Guide-Tackles, Blocks and Shivers.
guide vane n. Aeronautics (see quot. 1962).
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > dynamics > fluid dynamics > [noun] > aerodynamics > wind tunnels > parts of
honeycomb1911
guide vane1941
1941 Illustr. London News 28 June 827/1 (caption) At Langley Field, Virginia, U.S.A., where these powerful guide-vanes direct the air in pressure wind-tunnels.
1962 Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iv. 15 Guide vanes, a cascade of fixed vanes which guide the fluid stream round the bends in the passages of a wind tunnel.
guide-way n. a groove, track, or ‘way’ along which a thing is moved or run in the required direction.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun] > way on which something moved in specific direction
run1774
string1778
guide-way1876
1876 J. S. Ingram Centennial Exposition ix. 270 Both the upper and lower guide-ways were adjustable for keeping the saw in line whenever required by the settling of floors.
1887 Sci. Amer. 9 July 18/2 The tool carriage..is adapted to slide on guideways on the main frame [of an automatic wood-turning lathe].
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 111 Thence it passes on to a guideway in the floor, which runs it off on to a measuring-stage.
1966 Electronics 14 Nov. 16 Seifert will analyze such problems as propulsion, guideway, communications and control.
1969 Times 16 Apr. 11/6 The dual mode vehicle..is driven normally at either end of its journey, but..automation takes over once it runs on the ‘automated guideway’.
1969 Times 16 Apr. 11/6 The automated guideway system has been under study..for some 18 months.
guide-wheel n. a wheel used to guide a moving structure or vehicle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > parts and equipment of vehicles generally > [noun] > wheel to guide vehicle
guide-wheel1840
1840 Mag. Sci. 29 Aug. 173/2 Have it [sc. a tricycle] upon three wheels, the first of them a guide wheel.
1847 Patent Jrnl. 3 471/1 The next feature is the provision of safety guide-wheels [on a locomotive engine].
1885 Marine Engineer July 91/2 The guide-wheel supports the ‘bag’ of the bucket chain.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 22 July 5/2 The pilot must be careful to hold the guide-wheel so as to maintain this position.

Derivatives

Guider n. an adult leader in the Guide movement; now Brownie Guider, Guide Guider, or Ranger Guider.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > members of scouts or guides
Boy Scout1908
patrol leader1908
scout1908
scoutmaster1908
tenderfoot1908
captain1909
Girl Guide1909
Girl Scout1909
lieutenant1909
pathfinder1911
sea scout1911
rosebud1914
brownie1916
sixer1916
tenderpad1916
Brown Owl1918
rover1918
Rover Scout1918
ranger1920
tawny owl1921
Cub1922
Akela1924
scouter1930
Guider1931
den mother1936
Queen's Guide1946
Queen's Scout1952
Venture Scout1966
Beaver1975
skipper1986
1931 E. M. R. Burgess Girl Guide Bk. Ideas 3 It is an inspiring thought that throughout the British Empire there are Guides and Guiders like ourselves.
1944 Times 5 May 7/2 Guiders, Rangers, Guides and Brownies continued to render valuable war service.
1969 Policy, Organisation & Rules of Girl Guides Assoc. (ed. 33) 42 The Guide Guider and the Assistant Guide Guider are the adult leaders of the Company.
1969 Policy, Organisation & Rules of Girl Guides Assoc. (ed. 33) 42 All Units..are known officially as Ranger Guide Service Units, their members as Ranger Guides, and their Guiders as Ranger Guiders.
guiding n. the activities practised by Guides (cf. scouting n.1 1b).
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > specific youth organizations > activities of scouts or guides
scouting1908
Girl Scouting1911
Girl Guiding1918
guiding1924
scoutmastering1957
Venture Scouting1967
1924 A. Kindersley Guiding Bk. 7 It is these things, then, that poets have always sung and writers celebrated, and it is to them once more that we have looked..to help with this true explanation of Guiding.
1966 Listener 20 Oct. 571/3 They see Scouting (and Guiding) as a unique medium for this ‘social education’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

guidev.

Brit. /ɡʌɪd/, U.S. /ɡaɪd/
Forms: Middle English gide, Middle English–1500s gyd(e, (1500s gid), Middle English–1500s guyde, Middle English, 1500s– guide.
Etymology: < French guide-r (recorded from 14th cent.), an altered form (influenced by Provence guidar or Italian guidare ) of the older guier , whence guy v.1 Compare guide n.
1.
a. transitive. To act as guide to; to go with or before for the purpose of leading the way: said of persons, of God, Providence, and of impersonal agents, such as stars, light, etc. Also to guide the way (cf. lead v.1). Also reflexive.
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer
steerc888
leadc1175
guyc1330
guidec1374
governa1382
ministera1382
treat1387
administer1395
dispose1398
skift?a1400
warda1400
solicit1429
to deal with1469
handlea1470
execute1483
convoy?a1513
conveyc1515
mayne1520
to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1522
keepa1535
administrate1538
solicitate1547
to dispose of1573
manure1583
carry1600
manage1609
negotiate1619
conduct1632
to carry on1638
mesnage1654
nurse1745
work1841
operate1850
run1857
stage-manage1906
ramrod1920
society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > show (the way) [verb (transitive)] > lead back
teachc893
forleadOE
to lead the wayc1175
kenc1200
dressc1330
lerec1330
guy1362
guidec1374
reduce?a1425
tell1485
way lead1485
arrect1530
reconduct1566
reduct1580
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 1055 What maner wyndes gydeth yow now here.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 322 And god Mercurye of me now woful wrecche, The soule gide.
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 776 He on his wy is goon..In riche array this mayden for to gyde.
a1400–50 Alexander 5387 Nowe aires furth oure conquirour & candoile him gidis.
c1440 Generydes 116 And to this place he gidyd yow the weye.
1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 227 Item, govyn to Thomas Barkere ys brothyr, for gydyng the weye, iiijd.
1502 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 151 Item, to the man that gydit the King quhen he passit to Dunbertane, ijs.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke i. 79 That he might geue light..to gyde oure fete in to the waye of peace.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 723 The gold in stone will runne as small as a pin or thread, and meeting with a hollow place, filleth it, and so guideth the Miner by thicke and thinne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 78 And twenty glow-wormes shall our Lanthornes bee To guide our Measure round about the Tree. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 107 Some heauenly power guide vs Out of this fearefull Country. View more context for this quotation
1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 20 The known rocks and shelves do as well guide the sea-men as the pole-star.
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 595 How shall I tread..The dark descent, and who shall guide the way?
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho I. i. 43 Till moon-light..checquers all the ground, and guides them to the bow'r.
1820 P. B. Shelley Cloud in Prometheus Unbound 197 Over earth and ocean, with gentle motion, This pilot is guiding me.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xviii. 122 The slopes..and precipices, which were to guide us.
1865 M. C. Harris St. Philip's iii Moving cautiously upon the ice..he..lay down, guiding himself by his hands alone.
1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy iv. 288 The stars will guide us back.
1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. i. 5 He Had guided Iliumward the ships of Greece.
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. viii. 231 Refusing all help, she guided herself out of the room.
1894 J. T. Fowler in St. Adamnan Vita S. Columbae Introd. 28 God guided him to the ship.
1907 Smart Set Mar. 128 He guided himself cautiously with his left arm stretched out against the object of quest.
b. To direct the course of (a vehicle, tool, physical action, etc.).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > cause to move in a direction [verb (transitive)]
steerc888
righteOE
wisec1330
guy1362
makea1425
guide?a1505
to make forth1508
direct1526
to make out1560
bend1582
incline1597
work1667
usher1668
head1826
humour1847
vector1966
target1974
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > steer
wisec1330
guy1362
guide?a1505
steer1756
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 205 in Poems (1981) 117 As king royall he raid vpon his chair, The quhilk Phaeton gydit sumtyme vnricht.
1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 3 Ane schip..gydit..be sleuthfull marinaris and sleipand sterismen.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. i. 74 Heauen guide thy pen to print thy sorrowes plaine. View more context for this quotation
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 35 Lamech was blinde, and by the direction of Tubalcaine his sonne guiding his hand slew Caine.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. iii. 8 As water upon a plain Table is drawn which way any one part of it is guided by the finger.
1782 W. Cowper Expostulation in Poems 437 Unless a zeal for virtue guide the blow.
1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xxvii. 449 Still with steady hand Guiding the death-blow on.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. ii, in Poems 81 How strange that Men, Who guide the Plough, should fail to guide the Pen.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1284 A small hole..to receive and guide one thread.
†c. To keep from by guidance. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > from an action, purpose, etc. > by guidance
guide1568
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxvi. 57 Lord God, deliuer me, and gyd Frome schedding blude.
d. To serve as a guide for (an electromagnetic wave); so guided wave. Cf. guide n. 11.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > emit [verb (transitive)] > serve as guide for
guide1893
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [adjective] > types of
wire-guided1921
guided wave1925
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > [noun] > wavelength > wave guided by
guided wave1962
1893 O. Heaviside Electromagn. Theory I. iv. 368 If we abolish the fictitious magnetic conductivity throughout the medium traversed by the waves we should, to have distortionless transmission, also abolish the electric conductivity. This is only to be attained by using wires of no resistance to guide the waves through a non-conducting medium.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 214/2 The use of conductors will now be seen partly. They serve to guide a wave along from place to place without loss, and with a limited amount of energy.
1925 A. H. Morse Radio iii. 66 [He] enunciated the theory that a ‘Heaviside Layer’ was unneccessary, since all radio waves were guided by the earth, which was the real conductor; just as was the wire, in guided-wave telephony or telegraphy.
1936 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 15 285 It is possible to reduce the size of the guiding structure for a given frequency by the use of a suitable dielectric.
1936 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 15 312 In the ordinary type of guided-wave systems..the guiding conductors form two sides of a circuit in which equal and opposite currents flow.
1947 W. H. Watson Physical Princ. Wave Guide Transmission p. v A dielectric cylinder may also be used to guide electromagnetic waves of sufficiently high frequency and is usually called a dielectric guide.
1962 D. R. Corson & P. Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields xii. 429 In the process of guiding electromagnetic waves conductors waste part of the wave energy in the form of Joule losses. This is because the guided waves always induce electric currents in the conductors.
2. figurative and in immaterial senses: To lead or direct in a course of action, in the formation of opinions, etc.; to determine the course or direction of (events, etc.).
a. of persons or agents.
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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > guide
wieldeOE
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wiseOE
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beacon1835
a1400–50 Alexander 4425 Þus..ere ȝe..to þe way of wickidnes be warlaȝes gidid.
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 37 Whil that grace Of God the guydyth thou mayst not mys.
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 32v If he gouerne hym self euyll by liklyhode, right so wyl he guyde the.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fvv Grace is the moste sure safeconduct to gyde man through the troubles of this worlde.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. x. 18 Being taught, led, and guided by his spirit.
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 68, in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) I will..make mine eyes..my Schoole-masters, to guide my understanding to judge of your plot.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xii. 108 Her relapse Is mortall: come, come; and Escelapius guide vs. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) John xvi. 13 The Spirit of trueth..wil guide you into all trueth. View more context for this quotation
1662 Bk. Com. Prayer, Prayer Ember Week So guide and govern the minds of thy servants.
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 92 Whosoever has both a faithfull and a discreet friend, to guide him in the dark passages of his Life.
1788 W. Jones Charge to Grand Jury 4 Dec. in Wks. (1799) III. 26 So as to..guide your judgement in finding or rejecting the several bills.
1898 T. Adamson Stud. Mind in Christ xi. 278 The Saviour guided events sympathetically.
b. of indications, principles, motives, etc.
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a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) ii. sig. Biii Amid the flame and armes ran I in preasse: As furie guided me.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. v. sig. E2v Confusion, and black murder guides The organs of my spirit.
1683 J. Kettlewell Help & Exhort. to Worthy Communicating iii. iv. 343 When nothing but the interest of this World guides them.
1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. II. 26 It is preposterous for him to be guided too rigidly by the recommendations of others.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby III. vi. ii. 14 The fine taste which has guided the vast expenditure.
1848 R. I. Wilberforce Incarnation (1852) iv. 90 Our Lord's true perception of the real evils of man's nature..guided the general course of His sympathy.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. v. 656 The Secretary of State..has been guided by the reports of the Board.
c. reflexive. To conduct oneself or ‘get along’ (in a specified manner); †to manage one's affairs (obsolete). Cf. guy v.1 3b †Similarly, to guide one's ways.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave or conduct oneself [verb (reflexive)]
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14.. Sir Beues 2974 (MS. M.) That in ffrenche couth hym selfe guyde.
1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 20 Preamble The seid Edmond is not of sufficient discrecion to gyde himself and his lyvelode.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 264 He rewlis weill that weill him self can gyd.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xxvii. 6 He gyded his wayes before the Lorde his God.
1759 O. Goldsmith Enq. Present State Polite Learning viii For while so well able to direct others, how incapable is he frequently found of guiding himself!]
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality x, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 228 He..formed the resolution of guiding himself by the circumstances in which he might discover the object of his quest.
1874 J. W. Draper Hist. Confl. Relig. & Sci. v. 136 He guides himself by past as well as by present impressions.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Guide one's self, to behave well.
†3.
a. To lead or command (an army, etc.). Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military service > make into soldier [verb (transitive)] > lead or command
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c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 183 This Troilus as he was wont to gyde His yonge knyghtes ladde hem vp and doun.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin x. 151 The thirde warde lede the kynge Boors of Gannes, that full wele cowde hem guyde.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Avij Unto the thyrde, he gave such dygnyte To guyde an army.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxliiiv The lefte wyng was guyded by the lorde Fitz Hewe.
†b. To lead and tend (a flock). Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > herd
guide1551
shepherd1862
1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Ci You that woulde nedis take in hande To guyde my flocke, as shepheardis shoulde, Onlye to possesse rent and land.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxxviii. 52 [He] guided them in the wildernesse like a flocke. View more context for this quotation
1615 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 68 The stock of sheepe..to be fedd and guided winter and sommer.
4.
a. To conduct the affairs of (a household, state, etc.).
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1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 183 The people for to guide and lede, Which is the charge of his kinghede.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Tim. v. B I wil therfore that the yonger wemen mary, beare children, gyde the house.
1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance Pref. sig. av Moyses..was by almighty god chosen to guide and rule his people.
1662 Bk. Common Prayer Prayer for all Conditions of Men We pray for the good estate of the Catholick Church; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit that [etc.].
1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Of Pythagorean Philos. in Fables 503 A King is sought to guide the growing State.
b. To manage (money or other property, a process, an affair). Also absol. Now Scottish.
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1465 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 320 He is ryght ille plesyd that the mater was so gydyt.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 88 Evill he gydis, ȝone man, trewlie, Lo, be his claithis it may be sene.
1514 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 92 To be masteris of thar artalery, and to gid and keipe thar powder and wayr quarteris.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Ei For a memory Make indentures howe ye and I shal gyde.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 151/2 Which affeccion whoso happeth to haue geuen him, is very fortunate, if he with grace & mekenes gyde it well.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 49 Being deliuered from the care of hous-keeping, and of guiding his goods.
1637 S. Rutherford Let. 10 Sept. (1848) cclvii. 512 So that I have not the right art of guiding Christ; for there is art and wisdom required in guiding of Christ's love aright when we have gotten it.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 63 Better guide well, as work sore. And indeed good Management will very much excuse hard Labour.
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 323 My riches a's my penny-fee, An' I maun guide it cannie.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. x*. 281 Them that sell the goods guide the purse—them that guide the purse rule the house.
1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance II. xxvii. 289 I didn't believe she had one [sc. a cook] that..knew how to guide a sheep's head and trotters.
5. transitive. To treat or use (a person) in a specified manner. Scottish and northern dialect.
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1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 62 Our ain lads..guided them right cankardly an' snell.
1785 W. Forbes Dominie Depos'd ii. 43 in Select Coll. Poems Buchan Dial. Had you been there to hear and see The manner how they guided me.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. x*. 293 There are few..either of fools or of wise men, ken how to guide a woman.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Guide, to treat, to use. ‘Weel guided.’ ‘Badly guided.’
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