Guide (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Guided; p. pr. & vb. n.
Guiding.] [OE. guiden, gyden, F. guiaer,
It. guidare; prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. Goth. ritan
to watch over, give heed to, Icel. viti signal, AS. witan to
know. The word prob. meant, to indicate, point to, and hence, to show
the way. Cf. Wit, Guy a rope, Gye.]
1. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in
a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
I wish . . . you 'ld guide me to your
sovereign's court.
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.
