Shak.
2. To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the
training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or
morally; to train.
He will guide his affairs with discretion.
Ps. cxii. 5.
The meek will he guide in judgment.
Ps. xxv. 9.
Guide, n. [OE. giae, F. guide, It. guida. See Guide, v. t.] 1. A person
who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange
land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor;
also, that which guides; a guidebook.
2. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of
life; a director; a regulator.
He will be our guide, even unto death.
Ps. xlviii. 14.
3. Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or
channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an
instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as
of an operator; as: (a) (Water Wheels) A blade or channel for directing
the flow of water to the wheel buckets. (b) (Surgery) A grooved
director for a probe or knife. (c) (Printing) A strip or device to
direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
4. (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directing
flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the end of a
line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in
tactics. Farrow.
Guide bar (Mach.), the part of a steam engine on which the crosshead
slides, and by which the motion of the piston rod is kept parallel to
the cylinder, being a substitute for the parallel motion; -- called
also guide, and slide bar. -- Guide block (Steam Engine), a block
attached in to the crosshead to work in contact with the guide bar. --
Guide meridian. (Surveying) See under Meridian. -- Guide pile (Engin.),
a pile driven to mark a place, as a point to work to. -- Guide pulley
(Mach.), a pulley for directing or changing the line of motion of belt;
an idler. Knight. -- Guide rail (Railroads), an additional rail,
between the others, gripped by horizontal driving wheels on the
locomotive, as a means of propulsion on steep gradients.
Guide"board` (?), n. A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it
directions or information as to the road. Lowell.
Guide"book` (?), n. A book of directions and information for travelers,
tourists, etc.
Guide"less, a. Without a guide. Dryden.
Guide"post` (?), n. A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on
it, to direct travelers.
Guid"er (?), n. A guide; a director. Shak.
Guid"er*ess (?), n. A female guide. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Guid"guid` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A South American ant bird of the genus
Hylactes; -- called also barking bird.
Gui"don (?), n. [F. guidon, It. guidone. See Guide, v. t.] 1. A small
flag or streamer, as that carried by cavalry, which is broad at one end
and nearly pointed at the other, or that used to direct 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.
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