Guide

1. n. The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
2. v. t. To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
3. v. t. To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
4. v. t. A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
5. v. t. One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
6. v. t. Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface, or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument, or part of a machine, or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator
7. v. t. A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
8. v. t. A grooved director for a probe or knife.
9. v. t. A strip or device to direct the compositor’s eye to the line of copy he is setting.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.