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guide 1. Engineering any device that directs the motion of a tool or machine part 2. Spiritualism a spirit believed to influence a medium so as to direct what he utters and convey messages through him Guide a member of an organization for girls equivalent to the Scouts Guide Akela leader of wolfpack. [Br. Lit.: The Jungle Books] guide in Elysium. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]
conducted dead to judgment before Osiris. [Egyptian Myth.: Jobes, 105] series of guidebooks for travelers. [Travel: NCE, 207] beloved’s soul; directs him in Paradise. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy, Magill I, 211–213] famous prophetess; leads Aeneas through underworld. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid] transported blessed souls to islands of dead. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Appleton, 31] led ships through treacherous strait off New Zealand. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 128] a goat used to lead sheep to slaughter. [Eur. Culture: Misc.] 400 ft. tall; beacon visible 300 miles at sea. [World Hist.: Wallechinsky, 257] pilot of Aeneas. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid] Jehovah leads way to promised land. [O.T.: Exodus 13:21–22] guiding light to Jesus for the Magi. [Christian Symbolism: N.T.: Matthew, 2:9] pilot of the Argonauts. [Rom. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1085] Dante’s guide in Hell and Purgatory. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy, Magill I 211–213]
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There may be roads for them that know that country well; but for my part I had no better guide than my own nose, and no other landmark than Ben More. It happened (a thing not very unusual), that the guide who undertook to conduct him on his way, was unluckily unacquainted with the road; so that having missed his right track, and being ashamed to ask information, he rambled about backwards and forwards till night came on, and it began to grow dark. "No, not very wide," the Guide answered; "about the same as in England and America. |
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