Definition of "guessings"

It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.

1846, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany: Volume 2, Part 2, page 474

These guessings of ours, for they are more than half guessings, may throw a glimmer of light on the mystery of doll selection.

1899, The Contemporary review: Volume 75, page 63

Column II gives the frequency of correct guessings.

1924, Chinese Social and Political Science Association, Peking, The Chinese social and political science review: Volume 8, link

When Grice first proposed such interpersonal guessings in 'Logic and Conversation', he brought them into play

1993, Richard Harland, Beyond superstructuralism: the syntagmatic side of language‎, page 117