Word Meanings - GUIDERESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female guide. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to GUIDERESS)

• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• GUIDE ROPE
  A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.
• GUIDE
  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 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
• GUIDEBOARD
  A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road. Lowell.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• GUIDEPOST
  A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, to direct travelers.
• GUIDER
  A guide; a director. Shak.
• GUIDELESS
  Without a guide. Dryden.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• GUIDERESS
  A female guide. Chaucer.
• MISGUIDE
  To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
• LINGUIDENTAL
  Linguadental.