guide block (gidblok)

Same as guide - bar, guide-book (gid'bük), n. A book of directions for travelers and tourists as to the best routes, etc., and giving information about the places to be visited. distance at The figurative uses of these words are not ar guide craft (gid kraft), n. instructions, which be from from the same meanings. Direct may imply that we must reflect and exercise judgment, guide that we trustingly follow where we are led; but direct also means to exercise absolute authority: as, he directed all the movements of the army by telegraph from the seat of government. Sway in this connection is used of some influence, often bad and always strong, which turns us aside from what otherwise might have been our course, and in this sense is nearly equal to bias. (See comparison under authority.) We are guided or directed by principle or reason, or by a real friend, and swayed by our pa ions or feelings, or by unwise or unworthy a ociates. The stars will guide us back. George Eliot , Spanish Gypsy, iv. Who can direct when all pretend to know? Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 64. The art of or skill IMG:content-2773.png:[blocks in formation] The Academy , Jan. 7, 1888, p. 3. One of the guide-feather (gid'fer a"er), n. feathers on an arrow, of a different color from the rest, placed perpendicularly to the line of the nock, to enable the archer the more readily to adjust the arrow to the bowstring. guide-flag (gid'flag), n. 1. Naut ., in fleet tac- tics, a flag displayed on the ve el which is to act as a pivot or guide during an evolution of the fleet. In the United States navy the guard-flag, a red St. Andrew's cro on a white ground, is used for the purpose. rail placed midway between the two ordinary rails of a track, designed, in connection with devices on the engine or cars, to keep a train from leaving the track on curves, cro ings, or steep grades.