Guess
Guess (ges) , transitive verb
[Old English gessen; akin to Danish gisse, Swedish gissa, Icelandic gizha, Dutch gissen: compare Danish giette to guess, Icelandic geta to get, to guess. Probably originally, to try to get, and akin to English get. See Get.]
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.
2.
To judge or form an opinion of, from reasons that seem preponderating, but are not decisive.
We may then guess how far it was from his design.
Of ambushed men, whom, by their arms and dress,
To be Taxallan enemies I guess.
3.
To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly; as, he who guesses the riddle shall have the ring; he has guessed my designs.
4.
To hit upon or reproduce by memory. [Obsolete]
Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.
5.
To think; to suppose; to believe; to imagine; -- followed by an objective clause.
Not all together; better far, I guess,
That we do make our entrance several ways.
But in known images of life I guess
The labor greater.
Guess , intransitive verb
To make a guess or random judgment; to conjecture; -- with at, about, etc.
This is the place, as well as I may guess.
Guess , noun
An opinion as to anything, formed without sufficient or decisive evidence or grounds; an attempt to hit upon the truth by a random judgment; a conjecture; a surmise.
A poet must confess
His art 's like physic -- but a happy guess.