(n.) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung
across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
(v. t.) To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or
path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) One who, or that which, directs another in his conduct or
course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
(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
(v. t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the
wheel buckets.
(v. t.) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
(v. t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the
line of copy he is setting.
(v. t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the
directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops, or at the
end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments
in tactics.
