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- verb obsolete See
guess .
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- verb Obsolete form of
guess .
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Examples
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But how wood dey no dat if we wuznt logged in, I ghess.
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The Carter it Seems is to be a lagg Ship again what her fate will be I shant pretend to ghess if you take so little care of her your Self when She comes here what reason have you to Expect the name of so large a Ship Shold carry so much weight to do her bisness
Letter from Robert Carter to William Dawkins, December 16, 1727, and February 20, 1728 1727
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We have a great Enterprizeing Genious among us I Shall leave You to ghess the person how long his Affairs will Engage his Stay here, is a Secret I believe not yet known, I cannot think of any
Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah Perry, January 28, 1724 1724
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In the Country, there is another person whom You will ghess without my Nameing that has Ambition Enough I'm sure & perhaps will push for the Preceedency his dependance I know will be upon the favour of Mr. Horace Walpole, I Shall think it an
Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah Perry, October 17, 1723 1723
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I can do no more but ghess at his meaning, all Yor. friends here are well for wt.
Letter from Robert Carter to John Carter, July 19, 1720 1720
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The extreme limits of the vibrations were usually somewhat about the length of the body distant from one another, oftentimes shorter, and sometimes also longer; that the formost limit was usually a little above the back, and the hinder somwhat beneath the belly; between which two limits, if one may ghess by the sound, the wing seem'd to be mov'd forwards and backwards with an equal velocity:
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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If these Minute creatures were _Wood-lice_ (as indeed from their own shape and from the frame, the skin, or shell, that grows on them, one may with great probability ghess) it affords us an Instance, whereof perhaps there are not many like in Nature, and that is, of the prodigious increase of these Creatures, after they are hatch'd and run about; for a common
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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And so I ghess the pores in Wood, and other vegetables, in bones, and other Animal substances, to be as so many channels, provided by the Great and Alwise Creator, for the conveyance of appropriated juyces to particular parts.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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I ghess this pith which fills the Feather, not to consist of abundance of long pores separated with Diaphragms, as Cork does, but to be a kind of solid or hardned froth, or a _congeries_ of very small bubbles consolidated in that form, into a pretty stiff as well as tough concrete, and that each
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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_A description of them; a ghess at their original; their exceeding smalness compar'd with that of a Wood-louse, from which they may be suppos'd to come.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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