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▪ I. † gue1 Obs.
[ad. F. gueux beggar.]
A rogue.
1612J. Webster White Devil F 4 Pretious gue. Weel neuer part. 1658R. Brathwait Honest Ghost 232 Diligent search was made all there about, But my ingenious gue had got him out Before this inquisition.
¶ blind gue: app. ad. Ger. blinde kuh, blind-man's buff.
1604Meeting of Gallants B 3 b, For blinde Gue you know has six-pence at the least for groping in the Darke.
▪ II. gue2 Shetland.|gjuː|
[? repr. ON. gígja (in oblique cases gígju; the second g was pronounced (ɣ)) = MHG. gîge, mod.G. geige, fiddle.]
A musical instrument (see quot. 1809) formerly used in Shetland (Jam.).
1809A. Edmonstone Zetland II. 60 Before violins were introduced, the musicians performed on an instrument called a gue, which appears to have had some similarity to a violin, but had only two strings of horse hair, and was played upon in the same manner as a violoncello. 1822Scott Pirate xv, A knocking at the door of the mansion, with the sound of the Gue and the Langspiel, announced, by their tinkling chime, the arrival of fresh revellers. |