guilloche (gilosh)

t.; pret. and pp. guil loched, ppr. guilloching. [F. guillocher, dec orate with intersecting curved lines; said to be derived from the name of the inventor of this kind of ornament, one Guillot.] To decorate with intersecting curved lines, or with any pattern composed of curved lines. guilloche (gi-lōsh'), n. [ cases; in arch., an ornament in the form of two or more bands or ribbons interlacing or braided or twist IMG:content-2778.png:[blocks in formation] guiltle curved lines, A charming effect is produced at the Neuwelt houses by means of a guillocheeing machine in which an engraver's tool is drawn in regularly ma ed lines over the slowly revolving vase. Pop . Sci . Mo. , ΧΧΙΧ. 349. guillotine (gil'ō-tēn), n. [ guillotine : see def.] 1. A machine used in France France for beheading condemned persons by the action of a heavily weighted, oblique-edged knife falling between two grooved posts grooved posts upon the neck of the victim, whose head protrudes through a circular hole in a divided plank. Similar devices had been used in the middle ages. (See maiden .) The form adopted by the French government in March, 1792, was contrived, with the approval of the A embly, by a Dr. Louis, from whom it was at first called louisette ; but it afterward was named from Dr. J. I. Guillotin, who had proposed in the National A embly in 1789 the substitu tion of some more humane method for the slow and cruel modes of execution then in use, but without indicating any particular machine. 2. One of several machines similar in principle to the abo above, much used for cutting paper, straw, etc. Also called guillotine cutter.-3. In surg., an instrument for cutting the tonsils. guillotine (gil-ō-ten'), v. t.; pret. and pp. guil lotined, ppr. guillotining. [