Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
guess .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To guess.
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Examples
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And not to be outdone IPPR had apparently provided gyrating transvestites, or very stubbly ladies, to go with their bar-gesse at the nearby hell hole that is Bar 38.
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Knight did the like, after he had taken his sword, and was mounted on horsebacke; so that Anastasio had soone lost all sight of them, and could not gesse what was become of them.
The Decameron 2004
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And then against night it waxed calme againe, and the winde was at Southwest: we made our way vntill Sunday (23) noone Northwest and by West, and then we had the latitude in 70 degrees and a halfe, the winde at Southwest: there was a billow, so that we could not discerne to take the latitude exactly, but by a reasonable gesse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Thus the Ambassadour and his gentlemen sate still, and to the Southward of them was a doore whereas the great Turke himselfe went in and out at, and on the South side of that doore sate on a bench all his chiefe lordes and gentlemen, and on the North side of the West gate stood his gard, in number as I gesse them a thousand men.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For my part, albeit I haue probable coniectures perswading me not to beleeue any of the former opinions, concerning the situation of Island, but to dissent from them all: yet had I rather leaue the matter in suspense then affirme an vncerteinty, vntill (as I haue sayd) I may be able perhappes one day not to gesse at the matter, but to bring forth mine owne obseruation, and experience.
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For my part, albeit I haue probable coniectures perswading me not to beleeue any of the former opinions, concerning the situation of Island, but to dissent from them all: yet had I rather leaue the matter in suspense then affirme an vncerteinty, vntill (as I haue sayd) I may be able perhappes one day not to gesse at the matter, but to bring forth mine owne obseruation, and experience.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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All these courtiers being about the number of 2000. (as I might well gesse) most of them apparelled in cloth of gold, siluer, veluet, sattin and scarlet, did together with bowing their bodies, laying their hands vpon their brests in curteous maner of salutation, entertain the Ambassador: who likewise passing between them, and turning himself sometime to the right hand and sometime to the left, answered them with the like.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Whereby I surely gesse these men with whom that we
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Melleda and Zupanna is but foure or fiue miles ouer by gesse, but very deepe, for we had at an anker fortie fathoms.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Take a speciall note of their apparell and furniture, and of the substance that the same is made of, of which a Merchant may make a gesse as well of their commoditie, as also of their wants.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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