Chapter C: B. gor pus

_Bp. Forbes._

GOAT, _s._ A narrow cavern or inlet, into which the sea enters, Ang.

Isl. _gioota_, caverna terrae; _gat_, foramen.

GOAT-CHAFFER, _s._ Cerambyx aedilis.

_Sibbald._

_To_ GOAVE, _v. n._

V. ~Goif~.

GOB, _s._ The mouth.

Ir. _gob_.

_Chr. Kirk._

2. The stomach, S. _gebbie_.

_Maitland P._

GOBICH, _s._ The _goby_, a fish.

_Stat. Acc._

GOCKMIN, GOKMAN, _s._ A centinel.

Gael. _gochdman_, a watchman.

_Martin._

GODBAIRNE, _s._ Godchild.

_Lyndsay._

A. S. _godbearn_, puer lustricus.

_To_ GOGGE, _v. a._ To blindfold.

_Z. Boyd._

~Goggles~, _s. pl._ Blinds for horses, S.

GOE, GEU, _s._ A creek.

V. ~Geo~.

_Neill._

_To_ GOIF, GOUE, GOVE, GOAVE, GOUP, _v._

1. To stare, to gaze, to look with a roving eye, S.

_Gawve_, A. Bor.

_Douglas._

2. To investigate.

_Douglas._

3. To look stedfastly, holding up the face, S. B.

_Burns._

4. To throw up the head, tossing it from side to side, S.

Germ. _gaff-en_, adspectare, Sw. _gap-a_, avide intueri, Isl.
_gap-a_, circumspicere.

GOLACH, _s._

1. The generic name for a beetle, Ang.

2. The earwig, Loth.

Gael. _forchar-gollach_, id.

GO-LAIGH, GO-LAIGHIE, _s._ A low short-legged hen; also a woman of a similar shape, S. B.

From the v. _go_, and _laigh_, low.

GOLDING, _s._ A species of wild fowl.

_Acts Ja. VI._

GOLDSPINK, _s._ The Goldfinch, S. _goudspink_.

_Lyndsay._

GOLF, GOFF, GOUF, _s._

1. A game in Scotland, in which hooked clubs are used for striking balls, stuffed very hard with feathers, from one hole to another. He who drives his ball into the hole with fewest strokes, is the winner.

_Acts Ja. II._

Belg. _kolf_, a club for striking bowls or balls.

2. _Gouf_, a stroke, S.

_A. Nicol._

GOLINGER, _s._ A contemptuous term, Dumfr.

V. ~Gileynour~.

Isl. _goelengar_, illecebrae.

GOLINYIE, _s._ Apparently, a subterfuge.

V. preceding word.

_Colvil._

GOLK, _s._ Cuckow.

V. ~Gouck~.

GOLKGALITER, s. Some kind of disease.

_Roull._

Germ. _koken_, evomere, and A. S. _gealla_, bile.

GOME, GUYM, _s._ A man; sometimes, a brave man.

_Wallace._

Moes. G. _guma_, vir, A. S. _goma_, vir nubilis.

~Gome-graithe~, _s._ Furniture for war.

_Sir Gawan._

GOMRELL, GAMPHRELL, _s._ A stupid fellow, S.

_Ramsay._

Fr. _goimpre_, one who minds nothing but his belly; Isl. _gambr-a_,
blaterare, jactare.

_To_ GOO, _v. n._ To coo; a term used with respect to infants, S.