Definitions for the word "guide" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
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
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
A grooved director for a probe or knife.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
1 person who leads or shows the way. 2 person who conducts tours. 3 adviser. 4 directing principle. 5 book with essential information on a subject, esp. = *guidebook. 6 thing marking a position or guiding the eye. 7 bar etc. Directing the motion of something. 8 (guide) member of a girls'' organization similar to the scouts. v. (-ding) 1 act as guide to. 2 be the principle or motive of. [french from germanic]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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