Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghesse
Literary usage of Ghesse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... but not equall or square; for the two longer sides had each of them (as we
ghesse) an hundred and fiftie furlongs; the two shorter sides, ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... but not equall or square ; for the two longer sides had each of them (as we
ghesse) an hundred and fiftie furlongs ; the two shorter sides, ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... but not equall or square ; for the two longer sides had each of them (as we
ghesse) an hundred and fiftie furlongs ; the two shorter sides, ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
""A yew-game or geule game, gambade." Howell, Lex. Tetr., 1660. To ghesse.
So Spenser writes to guess, the etymology being ..."
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