The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gesse \Gesse\, v. t. & i.
To guess. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Wikipedia
The Gesse is a long river in the Hautes-Pyrénées, Haute-Garonne and Gers'' départements'', southwestern France. Its source is at Arné, on the plateau de Lannemezan. It flows generally northeast. It is a left tributary of the Save into which it flows at Espaon.
Usage examples of "gesse".
More beginnith at the west syde of the mowth of Arlan and occupiethe all the lond unto the hedeland Sibrion, and therefro sowth awaye to the Corshe, by gesse a vii hundered myles, wherby the se is not ther of nature favorable nor no haven is or cumming yn meete for shippes.
Well father sed boys always fit and she mustent wurry about it he gessed Willy wood get over it.
Aunt Sarah asked mother what she gessed he wood have next and mother she said she gessed he wood by a gristly bear for he had bougt most everything but that.
Cele that he got old Nigger Tashs scab for her and he gessed she wood begin to turn prety dark culored before a week or 2.
Aunt Sarah laffed and said she gessed she cood tell a few things if she wanted to and father he said he cood two but he gessed he woodent.
Ennyway he said Gim Melcher and Charles Talor led him into a good many scrapes and Aunt Sarah she said she gessed me and Beany and Pewt want a sercumstance to father and Gim Melcher and Charles Talor.
Pewts father said it was a mersy if they dident both get into jale and she said she gessed the Shute boy was a trial to his father and mother and Pewts father he said he gessed the Watson boy was two.
George are you crasy and he said no but he gessed after i had been out a while i wood be homesick.
Beany said he gessed he wood mary Lizzie Tole, Ed Toles sister sum day.
Joe McGee, assigned to the prosecution team on the Duncan sexual battery case, sat opposite Gessing at the interview table.
While Gessing held the door for George Fonseca, then lumbered out after him, Sam Hagen leaned heavily against a wall in the adjoining room.
Yclothed was she fressh, for to devyse, Hir yelow heer was broyded in a tresse, Bihynde hir bak, a yerde long, I gesse, And in the gardyn, at the sonne upriste, She walketh up and doun, and as hir liste She gadereth floures, party white and rede, To make a subtil gerland for hir hede, And as an aungel hevenysshly she soong.
For ther was noon so wys, that koude seye That any hadde of oother avauntage, Of worthynesse ne of estaat ne age, So evene were they chosen, for to gesse.
Now sire, of elde ye repreve me, And certes, sire, thogh noon auctoritee Were in no book, ye gentils of honour Seyn, that men sholde an oold wight doon favour, And clepe hym fader for youre gentillesse, And auctours shal I fynden, as I gesse.