A person who or thing which directs, controls, or influences; an attribute or quality which determines a person's action, behaviour, etc.; the…

= guider, n.

A leader, guide.

A guide; a conductor or leader. Obsolete. rare.

One who directs a person in his ways or conduct; an adviser; †a ruler, leader, governor.

A person or thing that conducts or escorts; a guide, leader, conductor (literal and figurative). Obsolete.

A leader, director, guide.

One who guides, in various senses of the verb. Formerly often used as equivalent to guide, n.; now rare… One who directs the conduct or actions of…

One who leads, guides, or escorts; a leader, guide (literal and figurative).

Originally Scottish. A person who conveys, conducts, or transports something or someone; a guide, an escort. Also: †a manager (obsolete).

figurative and in extended use, often with reference to the naming a child by the godfather at baptism, or to his offering instruction, guidance…

figurative. A leader; a mentor, teacher; a moral or spiritual guide; a clergyman (cf. sky pilot n. at sky, n.1 compounds 3).

One who drives; figurative one who guides or rules. See also cloud-compeller n. at cloud, n. compounds 2.

figurative and in extended use, often with reference to the naming a child by the godmother at baptism, or to her offering instruction, guidance…

figurative. A minister, esp. a ministering angel. Obsolete.

A guide to location or direction. Cf. mercury, n. 2. Obsolete. rare.