Chapter Grog to Guards of the Pole of G by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

kills many. The king comes up, finds out the mistake, and offers his hand, which Gryphon, like a true knight, receives. He joined the army of Charlemagne.

Gryphons (See Griffon .)

Guadiana The squire of Durandartë. Mourning the fall of his master at Roncesvallës, he was turned into the river which bears the same name. (Don Quixote, ii. 23.)

Guaff Victor Emmanuel was so called from his nose.

Guano is the Peruvian word huano (dung), and consists of the droppings of sea-fowls.

Guarantee An engagement on the part of a third person to see an agreement fulfilled.

Guard To be off one's guard. To be careless or heedless.
   A guardroom is the place where military offenders are detained; and a guardship is a ship stationed in a port or harbour for its defence.

Guards of the Pole The two stars b and g in the Great Bear. Shakespeare, in Othello, ii. l, refers to them where he says, the surge seems "to quench the guards of the ever-fixéd pole."

"How to knowe the houre of the night by the [Polar] Gards, by knowing on what point of the compass they shall be at midnight every fifteenth day throughout the whole year." - Norman: Safegard of Sailors (1587)