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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

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Guide

a member of an organization for girls equivalent to the Scouts

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Guide

Akela

leader of wolfpack. [Br. Lit.: The Jungle Books]

Anchises Aeneas’

guide in Elysium. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]

Anubis “Pathfinder”;

conducted dead to judgment before Osiris. [Egyptian Myth.: Jobes, 105]

Baedeker

series of guidebooks for travelers. [Travel: NCE, 207]

Beatrice Dante’s

beloved’s soul; directs him in Paradise. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy, Magill I, 211–213]

Cumaean sibyl

famous prophetess; leads Aeneas through underworld. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]

dolphin

transported blessed souls to islands of dead. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Appleton, 31]

Jack the Porpoise

led ships through treacherous strait off New Zealand. [Br. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 128]

Judas goat

a goat used to lead sheep to slaughter. [Eur. Culture: Misc.]

lighthouse at Pharos

400 ft. tall; beacon visible 300 miles at sea. [World Hist.: Wallechinsky, 257]

Palinurus

pilot of Aeneas. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]

pillar of cloud, pillar of fire

Jehovah leads way to promised land. [O.T.: Exodus 13:21–22]

star of Bethlehem

guiding light to Jesus for the Magi. [Christian Symbolism: N.T.: Matthew, 2:9]

Tiphys

pilot of the Argonauts. [Rom. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1085]

Vergil

Dante’s guide in Hell and Purgatory. [Ital. Lit.: Divine Comedy, Magill I 211–213]

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1.		GUIDE - Graphical User Interface Development Environment from Sun.
2.		Guide - A hypertext system from the University of Kent (GB) and OWL for displaying on-line documentation.