conjecture (the foll. are obs. uses)
1.
supposition
H5 IV. Chor. 1
“Now entertain of a time
When creeping murmur and the poring dark
Fills the wide vessel of the
universe.”
2.
evil surmise,
suspicion Ado IV. i. 107, Wint. II. i. 175,
Ham. IV. v. 15
“Dangerous
conjectures.”