Word Meanings - CONJECTURALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which depends upon guess; guesswork. Sir T. Browne.

GUESS
cf. Dan. giette to guess, Icel. geta to get, to guess. Probably 1. To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture. First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess. Pope. 2. To judge or
WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
GUESS ROPE
A guess warp.
GUESSER
One who guesses; one who forms or gives an opinion without means of knowing.
GUESS WARP
A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.
GUESSINGLY
By way of conjecture. Shak.
GUESSIVE
Conjectural. Feltham.
GUESSWORK
Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
GUESSABLE
Capable of being guessed.
FOREGUESS
To conjecture.
ANOTHER-GUESS
Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
MISGUESS
To guess wrongly.