[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

guide \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.
      1913 webster

   2. one who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or
      course of life; a director; a regulator.
      1913 webster

            he will be our guide, even unto death. --ps. xlviii.
                                                  14.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
guide guide bar guide slide bar guide block guide meridian 
meridian guide pile guide pulley guide rail 

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