Word Meanings - GUESSWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.

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• 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
• CONJECTURER
  One who conjectures. Hobbes.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• PERFORMANCE
  The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley.
• CONJECTURE
  An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion. He would thus have corrected his first loose conjecture by a real study of nature. Whewell. Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing
• 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.
• PERFORM
  parfornir, parfournir, to finish, complete; OF. & F. par + fournir to finish, complete. The word has been influenced by form; 1. To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do. I will cry unto God most
• GUESSINGLY
  By way of conjecture. Shak.
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• PERFORMER
  One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• OBTAINER
  One who obtains.
• GUESSIVE
  Conjectural. Feltham.
• GUESSWORK
  Work performed, or results obtained, by guess; conjecture.
• PERFORMABLE
  Admitting of being performed, done, or executed; practicable.
• 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.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• MISGUESS
  To guess wrongly.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• PREOBTAIN
  To obtain beforehand.