guilielma

[Named after Caroline Wilhelmine, Queen of Maximilian I., King of Bavaria.] Bot.: A genus of Palms, tribe Cocœe, and the spiny division of them. The leaves are pinnate; the fruit, which is egg-shaped, has but one seed. Three species are known- Guilielma speciosa is he Peach-palm of Venezuela and Guiana. It is from sixty to eighty feet high, and is cultivated along the Amazon and the Rio Negro. The natives eat the fleshy portions of the fruit boiled or roasted. The taste is like that of potatoes. Sometimes mola es is added. When fermented in water they form a beverage, while meal obtained from them is baked into cakes. *guil-le-mět, s. [Fr., from the name of the inventor.] Print.: A quotation mark; a mark used to inclose a quotation (''""). guil-le-mot, s. [Fr.] ciation. "He was so deserted, Not to be called into their guild." Ben Jonson: Masques; Chlorid i a. II. Hist .: The e ential principle of the guild is the banding together for mutual help, enjoyment, and encouragement. Some German scholars find the origin of guilds in the sacrificial a emblies of the Teutonic tribes; Wilda, Brent a no, and others see in the family the germ from which it was developed; others again maintain that guilds have sprung from the Roman collegia . More than 2,000 years ago the Greeks had their eranoi and thiasoi , and Numa is said to have encouraged the formation of craft guilds, of which Plutarch enumerates nine, guild-brother, s. A fellow-member of a guild. *guild-a-ble, a . [Eng. guild ; -able .] Liable to a tax. guild-er, *gild-er, *gild-ern, s . [A corrupt. of Dut. & Ger. gulden a florin, as if a coin of gueders or geldrers . A coin current in Holland and worth twenty stivers, or about forty cents. "One projector was for coining guilders ; another for coining dollars." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xxi.