ghess

Verb

guess (third-person singular simple present guesses, present participle guessing, simple past and past participle guessed)

1. To reach a partly (or totally) unconfirmed conclusion; to engage in conjecture; to speculate.
   • We can only guess at what was going through her mind.
2. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
   • He who guesses the riddle shall have the ring.
3. To suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
   • That album is quite hard to find, but I guess you could try ordering it online.
4. (colloquial) To think, conclude, or decide (without a connotation of uncertainty). Usually in first person: "I guess".
   • "I guess you were right." "What did he say?" "He guesses you were right."
5. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
   • Tell me their words, as near as thou canst guess them.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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