Guil"der (?), n. [D. gulden, orig., golden. Cf. Golden.] A Dutch silver
coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.
Guild"hall` (?), n. The hall where a guild or corporation usually
assembles; a townhall.
Guile (?), n. [OE. guile, gile, OF. guile; of German origin, and the
same word as E. wile. See Wile.] Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice;
duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile.
John i. 47.
To wage by force or guile eternal war.
Milton.
Guile, v. t. [OF. guiler. See Guile, n.] To disguise or conceal; to
deceive or delude. [Obs.] Spenser.
Guile"ful (?), a. Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or
treachery; guilty. -- Guile"ful*ly, adv. -- Guile"ful*ness, n.
Guile"less, a. Free from guile; artless. -- Guile"less*ly, adv.
Guile"less*ness, n.
Guil"er (gl"r), n. [Cf. OF. guileor.] A deceiver; one who deludes, or
uses guile. [Obs.] Spenser.
||Guil"le*met` (?), n. [F.] A quotation mark. [R.]
Guil"le*mot` (?), n. [F.] (Zoˆl.) One of several northern sea birds,
allied to the auks. They have short legs, placed far back, and are
expert divers and swimmers.
The common guillemots, or murres, belong to the genus Uria (as U.
troile); the black or foolish guillemot (Cepphus grylle, formerly Uria
grylle), is called also sea pigeon and eligny. See Murre.
Guil`le*vat" (-vt"), n. [F. guilloire (fr. guiller to work, ferment) +
E. vat.] A vat for fermenting liquors.
||Guil"loche` (?), n. [F. guillochis; -- said to be fr. Guillot, the
||inventor of a machine for carving it.] (Arch.) An ornament in the
||form of two or more bands or strings twisted over each other in a
||continued series, leaving circular openings which are filled with
||round ornaments.
Guil*loched" (?), a. Waved or engine-turned. Mollett.
Guil"lo*tine` (gl"l*tn`), n. [F., from Guillotin, a French physician,
who proposed, in the Constituent Assembly of 1789, to abolish
decapitation with the ax or sword. The instrument was invented by Dr.
Antoine Louis, and was called at first Louison or Louisette. Similar
machines, however, were known earlier.] 1. A machine for beheading a
person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical
guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
2. Any machine or instrument for cutting or shearing, resembling in its
action a guillotine.
Guil"lo*tine` (gl`l*tn"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Guillotined (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Guillotining.] [Cf. F. guillotiner.] To behead with the
guillotine.
Guilt (glt), n. [OE. gilt, gult, AS. gylt, crime; probably originally
signifying, the fine or mulct paid for an offence, and afterward the
offense itself, and akin to AS. gieldan to pay, E. yield. See Yield, v.
t.] 1. The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting
from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the
state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime;
criminality; offense against right.
Satan had not answer, but stood struck With guilt of his own sin.
Milton.