I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— to form an opinion of from little or no evidence
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Macmillan
— to say or decide what you think is true, without being certain about it
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Other Word Forms
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Usage
9 uses of ‘guess’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle