Chapter XXX: Part 30

Glyceric acid (Chem.), an organic acid, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycerin, as a thick liquid. It is a hydroxyl derivative of propionic acid, and has both acid and alcoholic properties.

Glyc"er*ide (?), n. [See Glycerin.] (Chem.) A compound ether (formed from glycerin). Some glycerides exist ready formed as natural fats, others are produced artificially.

Glyc"er*in, Glyc"er*ine (&?;), n. [F. glycÈrine, fr. Gr. glykero`s, glyky`s, sweet. Cf. Glucose, Licorice.] (Chem.) An oily, viscous liquid, C3H5(OH)3, colorless and odorless, and with a hot, sweetish taste, existing in the natural fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.

It is obtained from fats by saponification, or, on a large scale, by the action of superheated steam. It is used as an ointment, as a solvent and vehicle for medicines, and as an adulterant in wine, beer, etc.

Glyc"er*ite (?), n. (Med.) A medicinal preparation made by mixing or dissolving a substance in glycerin.

Glyc"er*ol (?), n. (Chem.) Same as Glycerin.

Glyc"er*ole (?), n. [F. glycÈrolÈ.] (Med.) Same as Glycerite.

Glyc"er*yl (?), n. [Glycerin + -yl.] (Chem.) A compound radical, C3H5, regarded as the essential radical of glycerin. It is metameric with allyl. Called also propenyl.

Glyc"ide (?), n. [Glyceric + anhydride.] (Chem.) A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- called also glycidic alcohol.

Gly*cid"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycide; as, glycidic acid.

Gly"cin (?), n. [Gr. glyky`s sweet.] (Physiol. Chem.) Same as Glycocoll.

Gly`co*cho"late (?), n. [Glycocoll + cholic.] (Physiol. Chem.) A salt of glycocholic acid; as, sodium glycocholate.

Gly`co*chol"ic (?), a. (Physiol. Chem.) Pertaining to, or composed of, glycocoll and cholic acid.

Glycocholic acid (Physiol. Chem.), a conjugate acid, composed of glycocoll and cholic acid, present in bile in the form of a sodium salt. The acid commonly forms a resinous mass, but can be crystallized in long, white needles.

Gly"co*cin (?), n. [Glycocoll + -in.] (Physiol. Chem.) Same as Glycocoll.

Gly"co*coll (?), n. [Gr. glyky`s sweet + ko`lla glue.] (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, with a sweet taste, formed from hippuric acid by boiling with hydrochloric acid, and present in bile united with cholic acid. It is also formed from gelatin by decomposition with acids. Chemically, it is amido-acetic acid. Called also glycin, and glycocin.

Gly"co*gen (?), n. [Gr. &?; sweet + -gen: cf. F. glycogËne.] (Physiol. Chem.) A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, and also by the action of amylolytic ferments.

Gly`co*gen"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or caused by, glycogen; as, the glycogenic function of the liver.

{ Gly*cog"e*ny (?), Gly`co*gen"e*sis (?), } n. (Physiol.) The production or formation of sugar from gycogen, as in the liver.

Gly"col (?), n. [Glycerin + - ol. See Glycerin.] (Chem.) (a) A thick, colorless liquid, C2H4(OH)2, of a sweetish taste, produced artificially from certain ethylene compounds. It is a diacid alcohol, intermediate between ordinary ethyl alcohol and glycerin. (b) Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type.

Gly*col"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid.

Glycolic acid (Chem.), an organic acid, found naturally in unripe grapes and in the leaves of the wild grape (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), and produced artificially in many ways, as by the oxidation of glycol, -- whence its name. It is a sirupy, or white crystalline, substance, HO.CH2.CO2H, has the properties both of an alcohol and an acid, and is a type of the hydroxy acids; -- called also hydroxyacetic acid.

Gly"co*lide (?), n. [Glycol + anhydride.] (Chem.) A white amorphous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid. [Written also glycollide.]

Gly`co*lu"ric (?), a. [Glycol + uric.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid.

Gly`co*lu"ril (?), n. [Glycolyl + uric.] (Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoÔn.

Gly"co*lyl (?), n. [Glycolic + -yl.] (Chem.) A divalent, compound radical, CO.CH2, regarded as the essential radical of glycolic acid, and a large series of related compounds.

Gly*co"ni*an (?), a. & n. Glyconic.

Gly*con"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; a kind of verse, so called from its inventor, Glycon.] (Pros.) Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry. -- n. (Pros.) A glyconic verse.

Gly"co*nin (?), n. An emulsion of glycerin and the yolk of eggs, used as an ointment, as a vehicle for medicines, etc.

Gly"co*sine (?), n. (Chem.) An organic base, C6H6N4, produced artificially as a white, crystalline powder, by the action of ammonia on glyoxal.

||Gly`co*su"ri*a (?), n. (Med.) Same as Glucosuria.

||Glyc`yr*rhi"za (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;; &?; sweet + &?; root. Cf. ||Licorice.]

1. (Bot.) A genus of papilionaceous herbaceous plants, one species of which (G. glabra), is the licorice plant, the roots of which have a bittersweet mucilaginous taste.

2. (Med.) The root of Glycyrrhiza glabra (liquorice root), used as a demulcent, etc.

Glyc`yr*rhi*zim"ic (?), a. (Chem.) From, or pertaining to, glycyrrhizin; as, glycyrrhizimic acid.

Gly*cyr"rhi*zin (?), n. [Cf. F. glycyrrhizine. See Glycyrrhiza.] (Chem.) A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.

{ Glyn, Glynne } (?), n. A glen. See Glen. [Obs. singly, but occurring often in locative names in Ireland, as Glen does in Scotland.]

He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within
those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot.

Spenser.

Gly*ox"al (?), n. [Glycol + oxalic + aldehyde.] (Chem.) A white, amorphous, deliquescent powder, (CO.H)2, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycol. It is a double aldehyde, between glycol and oxalic acid.

Gly`ox*al"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an aldehyde acid, intermediate between glycol and oxalic acid. [Written also glyoxylic.]

Gly*ox"a*line (?), n. (Chem.) A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline.

Gly*ox"ime (?), n. [Glyoxal + oxime.] (Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal, and belonging to the class of oximes; also, any one of a group of substances resembling glyoxime proper, and of which it is a type. See Oxime.

Glyph (glf), n. [Gr. glyfh` carving, fr. gly`fein to carve: cf. F. glyphe. Cf. Cleave to split.] (Arch.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

Glyph"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; of or for carving.] (Fine Arts) Of or pertaining to sculpture or carving of any sort, esp. to glyphs.

Glyph"o*graph (?), n. A plate made by glyphography, or an impression taken from such a plate.

Glyph`o*graph"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to glyphography.

Gly*phog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?; to engrave + -graphy.] A process similar to etching, in which, by means of voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can be used to print from.

Glyp"tic (?), a. [See Glyph.]

1. Of or pertaining to gem engraving.

2. (Min.) Figured; marked as with figures.

Glyp"tics (?), n. [Cf. F. glyptique. See Glyph.] The art of engraving on precious stones.

Glyp"to*don (?), n. [Gr. &?; carved, engraved + &?;, &?;, tooth. See Glyph.] (Paleon.) An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth. Owen.

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Glyp"to*dont (?), n. (Paleon.) One of a family (GlyptodontidÊ) of extinct South American edentates, of which Glyptodon is the type. About twenty species are known.

Glyp`to*graph"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. glyptographique.] Relating to glyptography, or the art of engraving on precious stones. [R.]

Glyp*tog"ra*phy (?), n. [Gr. &?; carved + -graphy: cf. F. glyptographie.] The art or process of engraving on precious stones. [R.]

||Glyp`to*the"ca (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; carved + &?; case, box.] A ||building or room devoted to works of sculpture.

Glys"ter (?), n. (Med.) Same as Clyster.

Gmel"in*ite (?), n. [Named after the German chemist Gmelin.] (Min.) A rhombohedral zeolitic mineral, related in form and composition to chabazite.

||Gna*pha"li*um (?), n. [Nl., from Gr. &?; wool of the teasel.] (Bot.) ||A genus of composite plants with white or colored dry and persistent ||involucres; a kind of everlasting.

Gnar (?), n. [OE. knarre, gnarre, akin to OD. knor, G. knorren. Cf. Knar, Knur, Gnarl.] A knot or gnarl in wood; hence, a tough, thickset man; -- written also gnarr. [Archaic]

He was . . . a thick gnarre.

Chaucer.

Gnar (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gnarred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gnarring.] [See Gnarl.] To gnarl; to snarl; to growl; -- written also gnarr. [Archaic]

At them he gan to rear his bristles strong, And felly gnarre.

Spenser.

A thousand wants Gnarr at the heels of men.

Tennison.

Gnarl (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gnarled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gnarling.] [From older gnar, prob. of imitative origin; cf. G. knarren, knurren. D. knorren, Sw. knorra, Dan. knurre.] To growl; to snarl.

And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.

Shak.

Gnarl, n. [See Gnar, n.] a knot in wood; a large or hard knot, or a protuberance with twisted grain, on a tree.

Gnarled (?), a. Knotty; full of knots or gnarls; twisted; crossgrained.

The unwedgeable and gnarlÈd oak.

Shak.

Gnarl"y (?), a. Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.

Gnash (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gnashed (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Gnashing.] [OE. gnasten, gnaisten, cf. Icel. gnastan a gnashing, gn&?;sta to gnash, Dan. knaske, Sw. gnissla, D. knarsen, G. knirschen.] To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.

Gnash, v. i. To grind or strike the teeth together.

There they him laid, Gnashing for anguish, and despite, and shame.

Milton.

Gnash"ing*ly, adv. With gnashing.

Gnat (?), n. [AS. gnÊt.] 1. (Zoˆl.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.

2. Any fly resembling a Culex in form or habits; esp., in America, a small biting fly of the genus Simulium and allies, as the buffalo gnat, the black fly, etc.

Gnat catcher (Zoˆl.), one of several species of small American singing birds, of the genus Polioptila, allied to the kinglets. -- Gnat flower, the bee flower. -- Gnat hawk (Zoˆl.), the European goatsucker; -- called also gnat owl. -- Gnat snapper (Zoˆl.), a bird that catches gnats. -- Gnat strainer, a person ostentatiously punctilious about trifles. Cf. Matt. xxiii. 24.

Gnath"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; the jaw.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the jaw.

Gnathic index, in a skull, the ratio of the distance from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the basion (taken equal to 100), to the distance from the basion to the middle of the front edge of the upper jaw; -- called also alveolar index.

Skulls with the gnathic index below 98 are orthognathous, from 98
to 103 mesognathous, and above 103 are prognathous.

Flower.

||Gna*thid"i*um (?), n.; pl. Gnathidia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. gna`qos the ||jaw.] (Zoˆl.) The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is ||naked; -- commonly used in the plural.

Gnath"ite (?), n. [Gr. gna`qos the jaw.] (Zoˆl.) Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillÊ, and maxillipeds.

{ Gna*thon"ic (?), Gna*thon"ic*al (?), } a. [L. Gnatho, name of a parasite in the "Eunuchus" of Terence, Gr. &?;; hence, a parasite in general.] Flattering; deceitful. [Obs.]

Gnath"o*pod (?), n. [Gr. gna`qos the jaw + -pod.] (Zoˆl.) A gnathopodite or maxilliped. See Maxilliped.

Gna*thop"o*dite (?), n. (Zoˆl,) Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.

Gna*thos"te*gite (?), n. [Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &?; a roof.] (Zoˆl.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.

||Gna*thos"to*ma (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &?;, &?;, ||the mouth.] (Zoˆl.) A comprehensive division of vertebrates, ||including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the ||leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. ||[Written also Gnathostomata.]

||Gnath`o*the"ca (?), n.; pl. Gnathothec∆ (#). [NL., fr. Gr. gna`qos ||the jaw + &?; a box.] (Zoˆl.) The horney covering of the lower ||mandible of a bird.

Gnat"ling (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A small gnat.

Gnat"worm` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.

Gnaw (n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gnawed (nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gnawing.] [OE. gnawen, AS. gnagan; akin to D. knagen, OHG. gnagan, nagan, G. nagen, Icel. & Sw. gnaga, Dan. gnave, nage. Cf. Nag to tease.] 1. To bite, as something hard or tough, which is not readily separated or crushed; to bite off little by little, with effort; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at.

His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw.

Dryden.

2. To bite in agony or rage.

They gnawed their tongues for pain.

Rev. xvi. 10.

3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

Gnaw, v. i. To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as in eating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, or unmanageable.

I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me.

Sir P. Sidney.

Gnaw"er (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, gnaws.

2. (Zoˆl.) A rodent.

Gneiss (ns), n. [G.] (Geol.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic or syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss.

Gneis"sic (ns"sk), a. Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.

Gneis"soid (-soid), a. [Gneiss + -oid.] Resembling gneiss; having some of the characteristics of gneiss; -- applied to rocks of an intermediate character between granite and gneiss, or mica slate and gneiss.

Gneis"sose` (?), a. Having the structure of gneiss.

Gnew (n), obs. imp. of Gnaw. Chaucer.

Gnide (nd), v. t. [AS. gndan.] To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces. [Obs.]

This word is found in Tyrwhitt's Chaucer, but improperly. The woed, though common in Old English, does not occur in Chaucer. T. R. Lounsbury.

Gnof (nf), n. Churl; curmudgeon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gnome (?), n. [F. gnome, prob. fr. Gr. gnw`mon one that knows, a guardian, i. e., of the treasures in the inner parts of the earth, or fr. &?; intelligence, both fr. gnw^nai, gignw^skein, to know. See Know.] 1. An imaginary being, supposed by the Rosicrucians to inhabit the inner parts of the earth, and to be the guardian of mines, quarries, etc.

2. A dwarf; a goblin; a person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.

3. (Zoˆl.) A small owl (Glaucidium gnoma) of the Western United States.

4. [Gr. &?;.] A brief reflection or maxim. Peacham.

{ Gnom"ic (?), Gnom"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?;: cf. F. gnomique. See Gnome maxim.] Sententious; uttering or containing maxims, or striking detached thoughts; aphoristic.

A city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry.

G. R. Lewes.

Gnomic Poets, Greek poets, as Theognis and Solon, of the sixth century B. C., whose writings consist of short sententious precepts and reflections.

Gnom"ic*al, a. [See Gnomon.] Gnomonical. Boyle.

Gnom"ic*al*ly, adv. In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.

{ Gno`mo*log"ic (?), Gno`mo*log"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;.] Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a gnomology.

Gno*mol"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; judgment, maxim + &?; discourse: cf. F. gnomologie.] A collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections. [Obs.] Milton.

Gno"mon (?), n. [L. gnomon, Gr. &?; one that knows, the index of a sundial. See Gnome.]

1. (Dialing) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis.

2. (Astron.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow.

3. (Geom.) The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df.

4. The index of the hour circle of a globe.

{ Gno*mon"ic (?), Gno*mon"ic*al (?), } a. [L. gnomonicus, Gr. &?;: cf. F. gnomonique. See Gnomon.] Of or pertaining to the gnomon, or the art of dialing.

Gnomonic projection, a projection of the circles of the sphere, in which the point of sight is taken at the center of the sphere, and the principal plane is tangent to the surface of the sphere. "The gnomonic projection derives its name from the connection between the methods of describing it and those for the construction of a gnomon or dial." Cyc. of Arts & Sciences.

Gno*mon"ic*al*ly (?), adv. According to the principles of the gnomonic projection.

Gno*mon"ics (?), n. [See Gnomonic.] The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

Gno"mon*ist (?), n. One skilled in gnomonics. Boyle.

Gno`mon*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Gnomon + -logy. Cf. Gnomonology.] A treatise on gnomonics.

Gnos"co*pine (?), n. [Gr. gignw`skein to know + E. opium?] (Chem.) An alkaloid existing in small quantities in opium.

||Gno"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. gnw^sis.] (Metaph.) The deeper wisdom; ||knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.

Gnos"tic (?), a. 1. Knowing; wise; shrewd. [Old Slang]

I said you were a gnostic fellow.

Sir W. Scott.

2. (Eccl. Hist.) Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.

Gnos"tic, n. [L. gnosticus, Gr. &?; good at knowing, sagacious; as a n., man that claims to have a deeper wisdom, fr. gignw`skein to know: cf. F. gnostique. See Know.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

Gnos"ti*cism (?), n. The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.

Gnow (?), obs. imp. of Gnaw. Gnawed. Chaucer.

Gnu (?), n. [Hottentot gnu, or nju: cf. F. gnou.] (Zoˆl.) One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes. [Written also gnoo.]

The common gnu or wildebeest (Catoblephas gnu) is plain brown; the brindled gnu or blue wildebeest (C. gorgon) is larger, with transverse stripes of black on the neck and shoulders.

Go (g), obs. p. p. of Go. Gone. Chaucer.

Go, v. i. [imp. Went (wnt); p. p. Gone (gn; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Going. Went comes from the AS, wendan. See Wend, v. i.] [OE. gan, gon, AS. gn, akin to D. gaan, G. gehn, gehen, OHG. gn, gn, SW. gÂ, Dan. gaae; cf. Gr. kicha`nai to reach, overtake, Skr. h to go, AS. gangan, and E. gang. The past tense in AS., eode, is from the root i to go, as is also Goth. iddja went. &radic;47a. Cf. Gang, v. i., Wend.] 1. To pass from one place to another; to be in motion; to be in a state not motionless or at rest; to proceed; to advance; to make progress; -- used, in various applications, of the movement of both animate and inanimate beings, by whatever means, and also of the movements of the mind; also figuratively applied.

2. To move upon the feet, or step by step; to walk; also, to walk step by step, or leisurely.

In old writers go is much used as opposed to run, or ride. "Whereso I go or ride." Chaucer.

You know that love Will creep in service where it can not go.

Shak.

Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will
scarce serve the turn.

Shak.

He fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon
his hands and his knees.

Bunyan.

In Chaucer go is used frequently with the pronoun in the objective used reflexively; as, he goeth him home.

3. To be passed on fron one to another; to pass; to circulate; hence, with for, to have currency; to be taken, accepted, or regarded.

The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.

1 Sa. xvii. 12.

[The money] should go according to its true value.

Locke.

4. To proceed or happen in a given manner; to fare; to move on or be carried on; to have course; to come to an issue or result; to succeed; to turn out.

How goes the night, boy ?

Shak.

I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.

Arbuthnot.

Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the
reward.

I Watts.

5. To proceed or tend toward a result, consequence, or product; to tend; to conduce; to be an ingredient; to avail; to apply; to contribute; -- often with the infinitive; as, this goes to show.

Against right reason all your counsels go.

Dryden.

To master the foul flend there goeth some complement knowledge of
theology.

Sir W. Scott.

6. To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake.

Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he
went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.

Sir P. Sidney.

Go, in this sense, is often used in the present participle with the auxiliary verb to be, before an infinitive, to express a future of intention, or to denote design; as, I was going to say; I am going to begin harvest.

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7. To proceed by a mental operation; to pass in mind or by an act of the memory or imagination; -- generally with over or through.

By going over all these particulars, you may receive some tolerable
satisfaction about this great subject.

South.

8. To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate.

The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good
time, and live.

Shak.

9. To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and come.

I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God; . .
. only ye shall not go very far away.

Ex. viii. 28.

10. To pass away; to depart forever; to be lost or ruined; to perish; to decline; to decease; to die.

By Saint George, he's gone! That spear wound hath our master sped.

Sir W. Scott.

11. To reach; to extend; to lead; as, a line goes across the street; his land goes to the river; this road goes to New York.

His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow.

Dryden.

12. To have recourse; to resort; as, to go to law.

Go is used, in combination with many prepositions and adverbs, to denote motion of the kind indicated by the preposition or adverb, in which, and not in the verb, lies the principal force of the expression; as, to go against to go into, to go out, to go aside, to go astray, etc.

Go to, come; move; go away; -- a phrase of exclamation, serious or ironical. -- To go a- begging, not to be in demand; to be undesired. -- To go about. (a) To set about; to enter upon a scheme of action; to undertake. "They went about to slay him." Acts ix. 29.

They never go about . . . to hide or palliate their vices.

Swift.

(b) (Naut.) To tack; to turn the head of a ship; to wear. -- To go abraod. (a) To go to a foreign country. (b) To go out of doors. (c) To become public; to be published or disclosed; to be current.

Then went this saying abroad among the brethren.

John xxi. 23.

-- To go against. (a) To march against; to attack. (b) To be in opposition to; to be disagreeable to. -- To go ahead. (a) To go in advance. (b) To go on; to make progress; to proceed. -- To go and come. See To come and go, under Come. -- To go aside. (a) To withdraw; to retire.

He . . . went aside privately into a desert place.

Luke. ix. 10.

(b) To go from what is right; to err. Num. v. 29.-- To go back on. (a) To retrace (one's path or footsteps). (b) To abandon; to turn against; to betray. [Slang, U. S.] -- To go below (Naut), to go below deck. -- To go between, to interpose or mediate between; to be a secret agent between parties; in a bad sense, to pander. -- To go beyond. See under Beyond. -- To go by, to pass away unnoticed; to omit. -- To go by the board (Naut.), to fall or be carried overboard; as, the mast went by the board. -- To go down. (a) To descend. (b) To go below the horizon; as, the sun has gone down. (c) To sink; to founder; -- said of ships, etc. (d) To be swallowed; -- used literally or figuratively. [Colloq.]

Nothing so ridiculous, . . . but it goes down whole with him for
truth.

L' Estrange.

-- To go far. (a) To go to a distance. (b) To have much weight or influence. -- To go for. (a) To go in quest of. (b) To represent; to pass for. (c) To favor; to advocate. (d) To attack; to assault. [Low] (e) To sell for; to be parted with for (a price). -- To go for nothing, to be parted with for no compensation or result; to have no value, efficacy, or influence; to count for nothing. -- To go forth. (a) To depart from a place. (b) To be divulged or made generally known; to emanate.

The law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from
Jerusalem.

Micah iv. 2.

-- To go hard with, to trouble, pain, or endanger. -- To go in, to engage in; to take part. [Colloq.] -- To go in and out, to do the business of life; to live; to have free access. John x. 9. -- To go in for. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc.

He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else.

Dickens.

-- To go in to or unto. (a) To enter the presence of. Esther iv. 16. (b) To have sexual intercourse with. [Script.] -- To go into. (a) To speak of, investigate, or discuss (a question, subject, etc.). (b) To participate in (a war, a business, etc.). -- To go large. (Naut) See under Large. -- To go off. (a) To go away; to depart.

The leaders . . . will not go off until they hear you.

Shak.

(b) To cease; to intermit; as, this sickness went off. (c) To die. Shak. (d) To explode or be discharged; -- said of gunpowder, of a gun, a mine, etc. (e) To find a purchaser; to be sold or disposed of. (f) To pass off; to take place; to be accomplished.

The wedding went off much as such affairs do.

Mrs. Caskell.

-- To go on. (a) To proceed; to advance further; to continue; as, to go on reading. (b) To be put or drawn on; to fit over; as, the coat will not go on. -- To go all fours, to correspond exactly, point for point.

It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.

Macaulay.

-- To go out. (a) To issue forth from a place. (b) To go abroad; to make an excursion or expedition.

There are other men fitter to go out than I.

Shak.

What went ye out for to see ?

Matt. xi. 7, 8, 9.

(c) To become diffused, divulged, or spread abroad, as news, fame etc. (d) To expire; to die; to cease; to come to an end; as, the light has gone out.

Life itself goes out at thy displeasure.

Addison.

-- To go over. (a) To traverse; to cross, as a river, boundary, etc.; to change sides.

I must not go over Jordan.

Deut. iv. 22.

Let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan.

Deut. iii. 25.

Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites.

Jer. xli. 10.

(b) To read, or study; to examine; to review; as, to go over one's accounts.

If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that . . .
they enjoin the same thing.

Tillotson.

(c) To transcend; to surpass. (d) To be postponed; as, the bill went over for the session. (e) (Chem.) To be converted (into a specified substance or material); as, monoclinic sulphur goes over into orthorhombic, by standing; sucrose goes over into dextrose and levulose. -- To go through. (a) To accomplish; as, to go through a work. (b) To suffer; to endure to the end; as, to go through a surgical operation or a tedious illness. (c) To spend completely; to exhaust, as a fortune. (d) To strip or despoil (one) of his property. [Slang] (e) To botch or bungle a business. [Scot.] -- To go through with, to perform, as a calculation, to the end; to complete. -- To go to ground. (a) To escape into a hole; -- said of a hunted fox. (b) To fall in battle. -- To go to naught (Colloq.), to prove abortive, or unavailling. -- To go under. (a) To set; -- said of the sun. (b) To be known or recognized by (a name, title, etc.). (c) To be overwhelmed, submerged, or defeated; to perish; to succumb. -- To go up, to come to nothing; to prove abortive; to fail. [Slang] -- To go upon, to act upon, as a foundation or hypothesis. -- To go with. (a) To accompany. (b) To coincide or agree with. (c) To suit; to harmonize with. -- To go (well, ill, or hard) with, to affect (one) in such manner. -- To go without, to be, or to remain, destitute of. -- To go wrong. (a) To take a wrong road or direction; to wander or stray. (b) To depart from virtue. (c) To happen unfortunately. (d) To miss success. -- To let go, to allow to depart; to quit one's hold; to release.

Go (?), v. t. 1. To take, as a share in an enterprise; to undertake or become responsible for; to bear a part in.

They to go equal shares in the booty.

L'Estrange.

2. To bet or wager; as, I'll go you a shilling. [Colloq.]

To go halves, to share with another equally. -- To go it, to behave in a wild manner; to be uproarious; to carry on; also, to proceed; to make progress. [Colloq.] -- To go it alone (Card Playing), to play a hand without the assistance of one's partner. -- To go it blind. (a) To act in a rash, reckless, or headlong manner. [Slang] (b) (Card Playing) To bet without having examined the cards. -- To go one's way, to set forth; to depart.

Go, n. 1. Act; working; operation. [Obs.]

So gracious were the goes of marriage.

Marston.

2. A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang]

This is a pretty go.

Dickens.

3. The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloq.]

4. Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.]

5. A glass of spirits. [Slang]

6. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloq.]

7. (Cribbage) That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

Great go, Little go, the final and the preliminary examinations for a degree. [Slang, Eng. Univ.] -- No go, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] Thackeray. -- On the go, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.]

Go"a (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.

Goad (?), n. [AS. gd; perh. akin to AS. gr a dart, and E. gore. See Gore, v. t.] A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.

The daily goad urging him to the daily toil.

Macaulay.

Goad, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Goaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Goading.] To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.

That temptation that doth goad us on.

Shak.

Syn. -- To urge; stimulate; excite; arouse; irritate; incite; instigate.

Goaf (?); n.; pl. Goafs (#) or Goaves (#). [Cf. lst Gob.] (Mining) That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob .

To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace them with props. Ure.

Goal (?), n. [F. gaule pole, Prov. F. waule, of German origin; cf. Fries. walu staff, stick, rod, Goth. walus, Icel. vˆlr a round stick; prob. akin to E. wale.]

1. The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.

Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels.

Milton.

2. The final purpose or aim; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or attain.

Each individual seeks a several goal.

Pope.

3. A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts.

Goal keeper, the player charged with the defense of the goal.

Go"a pow"der (?). [So called from Goa, on the Malabar coast, whither it was shipped from Portugal.] A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.

Goar (?), n. Same as lst Gore.

Goar"ish, a. Patched; mean. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Goat (gt), n. [OE goot, got, gat, AS. gt; akin to D. geit, OHG. geiz, G. geiss, Icel. geit, Sw. get, Dan. ged, Goth. gaits, L. haedus a young goat, kid.] (Zoˆl.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.

The Cashmere and Angora varieties of the goat have long, silky hair, used in the manufacture of textile fabrics. The wild or bezoar goat (Capra Êgagrus), of Asia Minor, noted for the bezoar stones found in its stomach, is supposed to be one of the ancestral species of the domestic goat. The Rocky Mountain goat (Haplocercus montanus) is more nearly related to the antelopes. See Mazame.

Goat antelope (Zoˆl), one of several species of antelopes, which in some respects resemble a goat, having recurved horns, a stout body, large hoofs, and a short, flat tail, as the goral, thar, mazame, and chikara. -- Goat fig (Bot.), the wild fig. -- Goat house. (a) A place for keeping goats. (b) A brothel. [Obs.] -- Goat moth (Zoˆl.), any moth of the genus Cossus, esp. the large European species (C. ligniperda), the larva of which burrows in oak and willow trees, and requires three years to mature. It exhales an odor like that of the he-goat. -- Goat weed (Bot.), a scrophulariaceous plant, of the genus Capraria (C. biflora). -- Goat's bane (Bot.), a poisonous plant (Aconitum Lucoctonum), bearing pale yellow flowers, introduced from Switzerland into England; wolfsbane. -- Goat's beard (Bot.), a plant of the genus Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant. -- Goat's foot (Bot.), a kind of wood sorrel (Oxalis caprina) growing at the Cape of Good Hope. -- Goat's rue (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Galega officinalis of Europe, or Tephrosia Virginiana in the United States). -- Goat's thorn (Bot.), a thorny leguminous plant (Astragalus Tragacanthus), found in the Levant. -- Goat's wheat (Bot.), the genus Tragopyrum (now referred to Atraphaxis).

Goat`ee" (?), n. A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.

Goat"fish` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.

Goat"herd` (?), n. One who tends goats. Spenser.

Goat"ish, a. Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.

Give your chaste body up to the embraces Of goatish lust.

Massinger.

-- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n.

Goat"like` (?), a. Like a goat; goatish.

Goat"skin` (?), n. The skin of a goat, or leather made from it. -- a. Made of the skin of a goat.

Goat"suck`er (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus EuropÊus); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.

Goaves (gvz), n. pl. [See Goaf, n.] (Mining) Old workings. See Goaf. Raymond.

Gob (gb), n. [Cf. Goaf.] (Mining) Same as Goaf.

Gob, n. [OF. gob morsel; cf. F. gobe, gobbe, a poisoned morsel, poison ball, gobet a piece swallowed, gober to swallow greedily and without tasting; cf. Gael. & Ir. gob mouth, snout, W. gwp a bird's head and neck. Cf. Gobble, Job, n.] 1. A little mass or collection; a small quantity; a mouthful. [Low] L'Estrange.

2. The mouth. [Prov. Eng.or Low] Wright.

Gob"bet (?), n. [OE. & F. gobet. See 2d Gob.] A mouthful; a lump; a small piece. Spenser.

[He] had broken the stocks to small gobbets.

Wyclif.

Gob"bet, v. t. To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets. [Low] L'Estrange.

Gob"bet*ly, adv. In pieces. [Obs.] Huloet.

Gob"bing (?), n. [See lst Gob.] (Mining) (a) The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff. Brande & C.

(b) The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.

Gob"ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gobbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gobbling (?).] [Freq. of 2d gob.]

1. To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.

Supper gobbled up in haste.

Swift.

2. To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.

He . . . gobbles out a note of self- approbation.

Goldsmith.

To gobble up, to capture in a mass or in masses; to capture suddenly. [Slang]

Gob"ble, v. i. 1. To eat greedily.

2. To make a noise like that of a turkey cock. Prior.

Gob"ble, n. A noise made in the throat.

Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble.

Mrs. Gore.

Gob"bler (?), n. A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.

Gob"e*lin (?), a. Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.

||Gobe`mouche" (?), n. [F.] Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who ||keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.

Gob"et (?), n. See Gobbet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Go"-be*tween` (?), n. An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.

Go"bi*oid (?), a. [NL. Gobius + - oid.] (Zoˆl.) Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius. -- n. A gobioid fish.

Gob"let (?), n. [F. gobelet, LL. gobeletus, gobellus; cf. L. cupa tub, cask. See Cupel.] A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle.

We love not loaded boards and goblets crowned.

Denham.

Gob"lin (?), n. [OE. gobelin, F. gobelin, LL. gobelinus, fr. Gr. &?; knave, a mischievous goblin; or cf. G. kobold, E. kobold, cobalt, Armor. gobilin an ignis fatuus, goblin.] An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.

To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied.

Milton.

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Gob"line` (?), n. (Naut.) One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

Gob"lin*ize (?), v. t. To transform into a goblin. [R.] Lowell.

Go"by (?), n.; pl. Gobies (#). [F. gobie, L. gobius, gobio, Gr. &?; Cf. Gudgeon.] (Zoˆl.) One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.

Go"-by` (?), n. A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by.

Some songs to which we have given the go- by.

Prof. Wilson.

Go"cart` (?), n. A framework moving on casters, designed to support children while learning to walk.

God (?), a. & n. Good. [Obs.] Chaucer.

God (gd), n. [AS. god; akin to OS. & D. god, OHG. got, G. gott, Icel. gu, go, Sw. & Dan. gud, Goth. gup, prob. orig. a p. p. from a root appearing in Skr. h, p. p. hta, to call upon, invoke, implore. &radic;30. Cf. Goodbye, Gospel, Gossip.] 1. A being conceived of as possessing supernatural power, and to be propitiated by sacrifice, worship, etc.; a divinity; a deity; an object of worship; an idol.

He maketh a god, and worshipeth it.

Is. xliv. 15.

The race of Israel . . . bowing lowly down To bestial gods.

Milton.

2. The Supreme Being; the eternal and infinite Spirit, the Creator, and the Sovereign of the universe; Jehovah.

God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth.

John iv. 24.

3. A person or thing deified and honored as the chief good; an object of supreme regard.

Whose god is their belly.

Phil. iii. 19.

4. Figuratively applied to one who wields great or despotic power. [R.] Shak.

Act of God. (Law) See under Act. -- Gallery gods, the occupants of the highest and cheapest gallery of a theater. [Colloq.] -- God's acre, God's field, a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre. -- God's house. (a) An almshouse. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- God's Sunday, Easter.

God, v. t. To treat as a god; to idolize. [Obs.] Shak.

God"child` (?), n. One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.

God"daugh`ter (?), n. [AS. goddohtor.] A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.

God"dess (?), n. 1. A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.

When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of
goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and
superior beauty.

Addison.

2. A woman of superior charms or excellence.

Gode (?), a. & n. Good. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gode"lich (?), a. Goodly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

God"fa`ther (?), n. [AS. godfÊder. Cf. Gossip.] A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction.

There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can
be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for every Female, one
Godfather and two Godmothers; and Parents shall be admitted as
Sponsors, if it is desired.

Book of Common Prayer (Prot. Episc. Ch., U. S. ).

God"fa`ther, v. t. To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care. [R.] Burke.

God"-fear`ing (?), a. Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious.

A brave god-fearing man.

Tennyson.

God"head (?), n. [OE. godhed. See -head, and cf. Godhood.] 1. Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.

2. The Deity; God; the Supreme Being.

The imperial throne Of Godhead, fixed for ever.

Milton.

3. A god or goddess; a divinity. [Obs.]

Adoring first the genius of the place, The nymphs and native
godheads yet unknown.

Dryden.

God"hood (?), n. [God + - hood. Cf. Godhead.] Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead.

God"ild (?). A corruption of God yield, i. e., God reward or bless. Shak.

God"less, a. Having, or acknowledging, no God; without reverence for God; impious; wicked. -- God"less*ly, adv. -- God"less*ness, n.

God"like` (?), a. [God + like. Cf. Godly.] Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue. -- God"like`ness, n.

God"li*ly (?), adv. Righteously. H. Wharton.

God"li*ness, n. [From Godly.] Careful observance of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety.

Godliness is profitable unto all things.

1 Tim. iv. 8.

God"ling (?), n. A diminutive god. Dryden.

God"ly, a. [God, n. + -ly. Cf. Godlike, Like.] Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws; obedient to the commands of God from love for, and reverence of, his character; conformed to God's law; devout; righteous; as, a godly life.

For godly sorrow worketh repentance.

2 Cor. vii. 10.

God"ly (?), adv. Piously; devoutly; righteously.

All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

2. Tim. iii. 12.

God"ly*head (?), n. [Cf. Goodlyhead.] Goodness. [Obs.] Spenser.

God"moth`er (?), n. [AS. godm&?;dor.] A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather

Go*down" (?), n. [Corruption of Malay gdong warehouse.] A warehouse. [East Indies]

Go*droon" (?), n. [F. godron a round plait, godroon.] (Arch.) An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.

God"send` (?), n. Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

God"ship, n. [God, n. + - ship.] The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.

O'er hills and dales their godships came.

Prior.

God"sib (?), n. A gossip. [Obs.] Chaucer.

God"son` (?), n. [AS. godsunu.] A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.

God"speed` (?), n. Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.]

Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed.

2 John 10.

God"ward (?), adv. Toward God. 2 Cor. iii. 4.

God"wit (?), n. [Prob. from AS. g&?;d good + wiht creature, wight.] (Zoˆl.) One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family TringidÊ. The European black- tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (L. fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (L. hÊmastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

Go"el (g"l), a. [Cf. Yellow. &radic;49.] Yellow. [Obs.] Tusser.

||Go`Î`land" (?), n. [F. goÎland.] (Zoˆl.) A white tropical tern (Cygis ||candida).

||Go`Î`min" (?), n. [F. goÎmon seaweed.] A complex mixture of several ||substances extracted from Irish moss.

Go"en (?), p. p. of Go. [Obs.]

Go"er (?), n. [From Go.] One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker; as: (a) A foot. [Obs.] Chapman. (b) A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer.

This antechamber has been filled with comers and goers.

Macaulay.

Go"e*ty (?), n. [Gr. &?; witchcraft, from &?; to bewitch, &?; sorcerer: cf. F. goÈtie.] Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Goff (?), n. [Cf. F. goffe ill- made, awkward, It. goffo, Sp. gofo, Prov. G. goff a blockhead, Gr. &?; stupid.] A silly clown. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Goff, n. A game. See Golf. [Scot.] Halliwell.

Gof"fer (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Goffered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Goffering.] [See Gauffer.] To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer. Clarke.

Gog (?), n. [Cf. agog, F. gogue sprightliness, also W. gogi to agitate, shake.] Haste; ardent desire to go. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Gog"gle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Goggled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Goggling (?).] [Cf. Ir. & Gael. gog a nod, slight motion.] To roll the eyes; to stare.

And wink and goggle like an owl.

Hudibras.

Gog"gle, a. Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.

The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes.

Sir W. Scott.

Gog"gle, n. [See Goggle, v. i.]

1. A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

2. pl. (a) A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc. (b) Colored glasses for relief from intense light. (c) A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting. (d) Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.

Gog"gled (?), a. Prominent; staring, as the eye.

Gog"gle-eye` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family CentrarchidÊ, esp. ChÊnobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes. (b) The goggler.

Gog"gle-eyed` (?), a. Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes. Ascham.

Gog"gler (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle- eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

Gog"let (?), n. [Pg. gorgoleta.] See Gurglet.

Go"ing (?), n. 1. The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

2. Departure. Milton.

3. Pregnancy; gestation; childbearing. Crew.

4. pl. Course of life; behavior; doings; ways.

His eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

Job xxxiv. 21.

Going barrel. (Horology) (a) A barrel containing the mainspring, and having teeth on its periphery to drive the train. (b) A device for maintaining a force to drive the train while the timepiece is being wound up. -- Going forth. (Script.) (a) Outlet; way of exit. "Every going forth of the sanctuary." Ezek. xliv. 5. (b) A limit; a border. "The going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea." Num. xxxiv. 4. -- Going out, or Goings out. (Script.) (a) The utmost extremity or limit. "The border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea." Num. xxxiv. 12. (b) Departure or journeying. "And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys." Num. xxxiii. 2. -- Goings on, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.

{ Goi"ter Goi"tre } (?), n. [F. goÓtre, L. guttur throat, cf. tumidum guttur goiter, gutturosus goitered. See Guttural.] (Med.) An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland.

{ Goi"tered, Goi"tred } (?), a. Affected with goiter.

Goi"trous (?), a. [F. goÓtreux, L. gutturosus. See Goiter.] Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.

Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in
general are either goitrous or idiots.

W. Coxe.

{ Gold (gld), Golde, Goolde (gld), } n. (Bot.) An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.

Gold (gld), n. [AS. gold; akin to D. goud, OS. & G. gold, Icel. gull, Sw. & Dan. guld, Goth. gul˛, Russ. & OSlav. zlato; prob. akin to E. yellow. &radic;49, 234. See Yellow, and cf. Gild, v. t.]

1. (Chem.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7.