Chapter XXXI: Part 31

Native gold contains usually eight to ten per cent of silver, but often much more. As the amount of silver increases, the color becomes whiter and the specific gravity lower. Gold is very widely disseminated, as in the sands of many rivers, but in very small quantity. It usually occurs in quartz veins (gold quartz), in slate and metamorphic rocks, or in sand and alluvial soil, resulting from the disintegration of such rocks. It also occurs associated with other metallic substances, as in auriferous pyrites, and is combined with tellurium in the minerals petzite, calaverite, sylvanite, etc. Pure gold is too soft for ordinary use, and is hardened by alloying with silver and copper, the latter giving a characteristic reddish tinge. [See Carat.] Gold also finds use in gold foil, in the pigment purple of Cassius, and in the chloride, which is used as a toning agent in photography.

2. Money; riches; wealth.

For me, the gold of France did not seduce.

Shak.

3. A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold.

4. Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold. Shak.

Age of gold. See Golden age, under Golden. -- Dutch gold, Fool's gold, Gold dust, etc. See under Dutch, Dust, etc. -- Gold amalgam, a mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury. -- Gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. -- Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. -- Gold beetle (Zoˆl.), any small gold-colored beetle of the family ChrysomelidÊ; -- called also golden beetle. -- Gold blocking, printing with gold leaf, as upon a book cover, by means of an engraved block. Knight. -- Gold cloth. See Cloth of gold, under Cloth. -- Gold Coast, a part of the coast of Guinea, in West Africa. -- Gold cradle. (Mining) See Cradle, n., 7. -- Gold diggings, the places, or region, where gold is found by digging in sand and gravel from which it is separated by washing. -- Gold end, a fragment of broken gold or jewelry. -- Gold-end man. (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man." B. Jonson. -- Gold fever, a popular mania for gold hunting. -- Gold field, a region in which are deposits of gold. -- Gold finder. (a) One who finds gold. (b) One who empties privies. [Obs. & Low] Swift. -- Gold flower, a composite plant with dry and persistent yellow radiating involucral scales, the Helichrysum Stúchas of Southern Europe. There are many South African species of the same genus. -- Gold foil, thin sheets of gold, as used by dentists and others. See Gold leaf. -- Gold knobs or knoppes (Bot.), buttercups. -- Gold lace, a kind of lace, made of gold thread. -- Gold latten, a thin plate of gold or gilded metal. -- Gold leaf, gold beaten into a film of extreme thinness, and used for gilding, etc. It is much thinner than gold foil. -- Gold lode (Mining), a gold vein. -- Gold mine, a place where gold is obtained by mining operations, as distinguished from diggings, where it is extracted by washing. Cf. Gold diggings (above). -- Gold nugget, a lump of gold as found in gold mining or digging; -- called also a pepito. -- Gold paint. See Gold shell. -- Gold or Golden, pheasant. (Zoˆl.) See under Pheasant. -- Gold plate, a general name for vessels, dishes, cups, spoons, etc., made of gold. -- Gold of pleasure. [Name perhaps translated from Sp. oro-de-alegria.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Camelina, bearing yellow flowers. C. sativa is sometimes cultivated for the oil of its seeds. -- Gold shell. (a) A composition of powdered gold or gold leaf, ground up with gum water and spread on shells, for artists' use; -- called also gold paint. (b) (Zoˆl.) A bivalve shell (Anomia glabra) of the Atlantic coast; -- called also jingle shell and silver shell. See Anomia. -- Gold size, a composition used in applying gold leaf. -- Gold solder, a kind of solder, often containing twelve parts of gold, two of silver, and four of copper. -- Gold stick, the colonel of a regiment of English lifeguards, who attends his sovereign on state occasions; -- so called from the gilt rod presented to him by the sovereign when he receives his commission as colonel of the regiment. [Eng.] -- Gold thread. (a) A thread formed by twisting flatted gold over a thread of silk, with a wheel and iron bobbins; spun gold. Ure. (b) (Bot.) A small evergreen plant (Coptis trifolia), so called from its fibrous yellow roots. It is common in marshy places in the United States. -- Gold tissue, a tissue fabric interwoven with gold thread. -- Gold tooling, the fixing of gold leaf by a hot tool upon book covers, or the ornamental impression so made. -- Gold washings, places where gold found in gravel is separated from lighter material by washing. -- Gold worm, a glowworm. [Obs.] -- Jeweler's gold, an alloy containing three parts of gold to one of copper. -- Mosaic gold. See under Mosaic.

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Gold"-beat`en (?), a. Gilded. [Obs.]

Gold"-beat`ing (?), n. The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

Gold"-bound` (?), a. Encompassed with gold.

Gold"crest` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.

Gold"cup` (?), n. (Bot.) The cuckoobud.

Gold"en (?), a. [OE. golden; cf. OE. gulden, AS. gylden, from gold. See Gold, and cf. Guilder.]

1. Made of gold; consisting of gold.

2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain.

3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions.

Golden age. (a) The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of manners in rural employments, followed by the silver, bronze, and iron ages. Dryden. (b) (Roman Literature) The best part (B. C. 81 -- A. D. 14) of the classical period of Latinity; the time when Cicero, CÊsar, Virgil, etc., wrote. Hence: (c) That period in the history of a literature, etc., when it flourishes in its greatest purity or attains its greatest glory; as, the Elizabethan age has been considered the golden age of English literature. -- Golden balls, three gilt balls used as a sign of a pawnbroker's office or shop; -- originally taken from the coat of arms of Lombardy, the first money lenders in London having been Lombards. -- Golden bull. See under Bull, an edict. -- Golden chain (Bot.), the shrub Cytisus Laburnum, so named from its long clusters of yellow blossoms. -- Golden club (Bot.), an aquatic plant (Orontium aquaticum), bearing a thick spike of minute yellow flowers. -- Golden cup (Bot.), the buttercup. -- Golden eagle (Zoˆl.), a large and powerful eagle (Aquila ChrysaÎtos) inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. It is so called from the brownish yellow tips of the feathers on the head and neck. A dark variety is called the royal eagle; the young in the second year is the ring-tailed eagle. -- Golden fleece. (a) (Mythol.) The fleece of gold fabled to have been taken from the ram that bore Phryxus through the air to Colchis, and in quest of which Jason undertook the Argonautic expedition. (b) (Her.) An order of knighthood instituted in 1429 by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; - - called also Toison d'Or. -- Golden grease, a bribe; a fee. [Slang] -- Golden hair (Bot.), a South African shrubby composite plant with golden yellow flowers, the Chrysocoma Coma- aurea. -- Golden Horde (Hist.), a tribe of Mongolian Tartars who overran and settled in Southern Russia early in the 18th century. -- Golden Legend, a hagiology (the "Aurea Legenda") written by James de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, in the 13th century, translated and printed by Caxton in 1483, and partially paraphrased by Longfellow in a poem thus entitled. -- Golden marcasite tin. [Obs.] -- Golden mean, the way of wisdom and safety between extremes; sufficiency without excess; moderation.

Angels guard him in the golden mean.

Pope.

-- Golden mole (Zoˆl), one of several South African Insectivora of the family ChrysochloridÊ, resembling moles in form and habits. The fur is tinted with green, purple, and gold. -- Golden number (Chronol.), a number showing the year of the lunar or Metonic cycle. It is reckoned from 1 to 19, and is so called from having formerly been written in the calendar in gold. -- Golden oriole. (Zoˆl.) See Oriole. -- Golden pheasant. See under Pheasant. -- Golden pippin, a kind of apple, of a bright yellow color. -- Golden plover (Zoˆl.), one of several species of plovers, of the genus Charadrius, esp. the European (C. apricarius, or pluvialis; -- called also yellow, black-breasted, hill, &and; whistling, plover. The common American species (C. dominicus) is also called frostbird, and bullhead. -- Golden robin. (Zoˆl.) See Baltimore oriole, in Vocab. -- Golden rose (R. C. Ch.), a gold or gilded rose blessed by the pope on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and sent to some church or person in recognition of special services rendered to the Holy See. -- Golden rule. (a) The rule of doing as we would have others do to us. Cf. Luke vi. 31. (b) The rule of proportion, or rule of three. -- Golden samphire (Bot.), a composite plant (Inula crithmoides), found on the seashore of Europe. -- Golden saxifrage (Bot.), a low herb with yellow flowers (Chrysosplenium oppositifolium), blossoming in wet places in early spring. - - Golden seal (Bot.), a perennial ranunculaceous herb (Hydrastis Canadensis), with a thick knotted rootstock and large rounded leaves. -- Golden sulphide, or sulphuret, of antimony (Chem.), the pentasulphide of antimony, a golden or orange yellow powder. -- Golden warbler (Zoˆl.), a common American wood warbler (Dendroica Êstiva); -- called also blue-eyed yellow warbler, garden warbler, and summer yellow bird. -- Golden wasp (Zoˆl.), a bright- colored hymenopterous insect, of the family ChrysididÊ. The colors are golden, blue, and green. -- Golden wedding. See under Wedding.

Gold"en-eye` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

God"en*ly, adv. In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully. [Obs.] Shak.

Gold"en-rod` (?), n. (Bot.) A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago.

Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.

Gold"finch` (?), n. [AS. goldfinc. See Gold, and Finch.] (Zoˆl.) (a) A beautiful bright- colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William. (b) The yellow- hammer. (c) A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.

The name is also applied to other yellow finches, esp. to several additional American species of Spinus.

Gold"fin`ny (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of two or more species of European labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.

Gold"fish` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) (a) A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is a native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope. (b) A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.

Gold"-ham`mer (?), n. The yellow- hammer.

Gold"ie (?), n. [From Gold.] (Zoˆl.) (a) The European goldfinch. (b) The yellow- hammer.

Gold"i*locks` (?), n. Same as Goldylocks.

{ Gold"in (?), Gold"ing (?), } n. (Bot.) [From the golden color of the blossoms.] A conspicuous yellow flower, commonly the corn marigold (Chrysanthemum segetum). [This word is variously corrupted into gouland, gools, gowan, etc.]

Gold"less (?), a. Destitute of gold.

Gold"ney (?), n. (Zoˆl.) See Gilthead.

Gold"seed` (?), n. (Bot.) Dog's-tail grass.

Gold"sin`ny (?), n. (Zoˆl.) See Goldfinny.

Gold"smith` (?), n. [AS. goldsmi&?;. See Gold., and Smith.] 1. An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments, etc., of gold.

2. A banker. [Obs.]

The goldsmiths of London formerly received money on deposit because they were prepared to keep it safely.

Goldsmith beetle (Zoˆl.), a large, bright yellow, American beetle (Cotalpa lanigera), of the family ScarabÊidÊ

Gold"tit` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) See Verdin.

Gold"y*locks` (?), n. (Bot.) A plant of several species of the genus Chrysocoma; -- so called from the tufts of yellow flowers which terminate the stems; also, the Ranunculus auricomus, a kind of buttercup.

Go"let (?), n. The gullet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Go"let, n. (Zoˆl.) A California trout. See Malma.

Golf (?), n. [D. kolf club or bat, also a Dutch game played in an inclosed area with clubs and balls; akin to G. kolben club, but end, Icel. k&?;lfr tongue of a bell. bolt, Sw. kolf bolt, dart, but end, Dan. kolv bolt, arrow. Cf. Club, Globe.] A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner. [Scot.] Strutt.

Golf"er (?), n. One who plays golf. [Scot.]

Gol"go*tha (?), n. Calvary. See the Note under Calvary.

Gol"iard (gl"yrd), n. [From OF. goliart glutton, buffoon, riotous student, Goliard, LL. goliardus, prob. fr. L. gula throat. Cf. Gules.] A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs.

Gol"iard*er*y (?), n. The satirical or ribald poetry of the Goliards. Milman.

Go*li"ath bee"tle (?). [From Goliath, the Philistine giant.] (Zoˆl.) Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.

Goll (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] A hand, paw, or claw. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. B. Jonson.

Go*loe"-shoe` (?), n. A galoche.

Go*lore" (?), n. See Galore.

Go*loshe" (?), n. See Galoche.

Golt"schut (?), n. 1. A small ingot of gold.

2. A silver ingot, used in Japan as money.

Gol"yard*eys (?), n. A buffoon. See Goliard. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Go"man (?), n. [Prob. fr. good man; but cf. also AS. gumman a man, OHG. gomman man, husband.] A husband; a master of a family. [Obs.]

{ Go"mar*ist (?), Go"mar*ite (?), } n. (Eccl.-Hist.) One of the followers of Francis Gomar or Gomarus, a Dutch disciple of Calvin in the 17th century, who strongly opposed the Arminians.

Gom"bo (?), n. See Gumbo.

Gome (?), n. [AS. guma; akin to Goth. guma, L. homo. See Bridegroom.] A man. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

Gome, n. [Cf. Icel. gormr ooze, mud.] The black grease on the axle of a cart or wagon wheel; -- called also gorm. See Gorm. [Prov. Eng.]

Go"mer (?), n. A Hebrew measure. See Homer.

Go"mer, n. (Gun.) A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.

Gom"me*lin (?), n. [F. gommeline, from gomme gum.] (Chem.) See Dextrin.

||Gom*phi"a*sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; toothache or gnashing of ||teeth, fr. &?; a grinder tooth, from &?; a bolt.] (Med.) A disease of ||the teeth, which causes them to loosen and fall out of their sockets.

||Gom*pho"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, prop., a bolting together, fr. ||&?; to fasten with bolts or nails, &?; bolt, nail: cf. F. gomphose.] ||(Anat.) A form of union or immovable articulation where a hard part ||is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws.

Go*mu"ti (?), n. [Malayan gumuti.] A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

Gon (?), imp. & p. p. of Go. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gon"ad (?), n.; pl. Gonads (#). [Gr. &?; that which generates.] (Anat.) One of the masses of generative tissue primitively alike in both sexes, but giving rise to either an ovary or a testis; a generative gland; a germ gland. Wiedersheim.

Go"na*kie (?), n. (Bot.) An African timber tree (Acacia Adansonii).

||Go`nan*gi"um (?), n.; pl. L. Gonangia (#), E. Gonangiums (#). [NL., ||fr. Gr. &?; offspring + &?; vessel.] (Zoˆl.) See Gonotheca.

Gon"do*la (?), n. [It., dim. of gonda a gondola; cf. LL. gandeia a kind of boat, Gr. &?; a drinking vessel; said to be a Persian word; cf. F. gondole gondola, cup.]

1. A long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, used in the canals of Venice. A gondola is usually propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.

2. A flat-bottomed boat for freight. [U. S.]

3. A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads. [U. S.]

Gon"do*let (?), n. [It. gondoletta, dim. of gondola.] A small gondola. T. Moore.

Gon`do*lier" (?), n. [It. gondoliere: cf. F. gondolier.] A man who rows a gondola.

Gone (?), p. p. of Go.

Gone"ness, n. A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger. [Colloq. U. S.]

{ Gon"fa*lon (?), Gon"fa*non (?), } n. [OE. gonfanoun, OF. gonfanon, F. gonfalon, the same word as F. confalon, name of a religious brotherhood, fr. OHG. gundfano war flag; gund war (used in comp., and akin to AS. g) + fano cloth, flag; akin to E. vane; cf. AS. gfana. See Vane, and cf. Confalon.] 1. The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediÊval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope.

2. A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself.

Standards and gonfalons, 'twixt van and rear, Stream in the air.

Milton.

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Gon`fa*lon*ier" (?), n. [F. gonfalonier: cf. It. gonfaloniere.] He who bears the gonfalon; a standard bearer; as: (a) An officer at Rome who bears the standard of the Church. (b) The chief magistrate of any one of several republics in mediÊveal Italy. (c) A Turkish general, and standard keeper.

Gong (?), n. [AS. gong, gang, a going, passage, drain. See Gang.] A privy or jakes. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Gong farmer, Gong man, a cleaner of privies. [Obs.]

Gong, n. 1. [Malayan (Jav.) gng.] An instrument, first used in the East, made of an alloy of copper and tin, shaped like a disk with upturned rim, and producing, when struck, a harsh and resounding noise.

O'er distant deserts sounds the Tartar gong.

Longfellow.

2. (Mach.) A flat saucerlike bell, rung by striking it with a small hammer which is connected with it by various mechanical devices; a stationary bell, used to sound calls or alarms; -- called also gong bell.

Gong metal, an alloy (78 parts of copper, 22 of tin), from which Oriental gongs are made.

Go"ni*a*tite (?), n. [Gr. &?; angle.] (Paleon.) One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.

Go*nid"i*al (?), a. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia.

Go*nid"i*al, a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the angles of the mouth; as, a gonidial groove of an actinian.

||Go*nid"i*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;, dim. of &?; angle.] (Zool.) A ||special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many ||Anthozoa.

||Go*nid"i*um, n.; pl. Gonidia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; that which ||generates.] (Bot.) A component cell of the yellowish green layer in ||certain lichens.

||Go*nim"i*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; productive, fr. &?; that ||which generates.] (Bot.) Bluish green granules which occur in certain ||lichens, as Collema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more ||usual gonidia.

Gon"i*mous (?), a. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.

Go`ni*om"e*ter (?), n. [Gr. &?; angle + -meter: cf. F. goniomËtre.] An instrument for measuring angles, especially the angles of crystals, or the inclination of planes.

Contact, or Hand, goniometer, a goniometer having two movable arms (ab, cd), between which (at ab) the faces of the crystals are placed. These arms turn about a fixed point, which is the center of the graduated circle or semicircle upon which the angle is read off. -- Reflecting goniometer, an instrument for measuring the angles of crystals by determining through what angular space the crystal must be turned so that two rays reflected from two surfaces successively shall have the same direction; -- called also Wollaston's goniometer, from the inventor.

Go`ni*o*met"ric (?), Go`ni*o*met"ric*al (&?;), a. Pertaining to, or determined by means of, a goniometer; trigonometric.

Go`ni*om"e*try (?), n. [Cf. F. goniomÈtrie.] (Math.) The art of measuring angles; trigonometry.

Gon`o*blas"tid (?), n. [See Gonoblastidium.] (Zoˆl.) A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

||Gon`o*blas*tid"i*um (?), n.; pl. Gonoblastidia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; ||offspring + &?; to bud.] (Zoˆl.) A blastostyle.

Gon`o*ca"lyx (?), n. [Gr. &?; offspring + E. calyx,] (Zoˆl.) The bell of a sessile gonozooid.

Gon`o*cho"rism (?), n. [Gr. &?; offspring + &?; to separate.] (a) Separation of the sexes in different individuals; -- opposed to hermaphroditism. (b) In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs. (c) In phylogeny, the evolution of distinct sexes in species previously hermaphrodite or sexless.

||Gon`o*coc"cus (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; semen, the genitals + NL. & ||E. coccus.] (Med.) A vegetable microˆrganism of the genus ||Micrococcus, occurring in the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed ||by some to constitute the cause of this disease.

Gon"oph (?), n. [Perh. fr. Heb. gannbh thief.] A pickpocket or thief. [Eng. Slang] Dickens.

Gon"o*phore (?), n. [Gr. &?; offspring, seed + &?; to bear.] 1. (Zoˆl.) A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.

2. (Bot.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner.

{ Gon`or*rhe"a, Gon`or*rhú"a } (?), n. [L. gonorrhoea, Gr. &?;; &?; that which begets, semen, the genitals + &?; to flow: cf. F. gonorrhÈe.] (Med.) A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a mucopurulent discharge, pain in urination, and chordee; clap.

{ Gon`or*rhe"al, Gon`or*rhú"al } (?), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to gonorrhea; as, gonorrheal rheumatism.

Gon"o*some (?), n. [Gr. &?; offspring + -some body.] (Zoˆl.) The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

||Gon`o*the"ca (?), n.; pl. Gonothec&?; (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; ||offspring + &?; box.] (Zoˆl.) A capsule developed on certain hydroids ||(Thecaphora), inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds ||or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and ||teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Gon`o*zo"oid (?), n. [Gr. &?; offspring + E. zooid.] (Zoˆl.) A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Go*nyd"i*al (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the gonys of a bird's beak.

||Go"nys (?), n. [Cf. Genys.] (Zoˆl.) The keel or lower outline of a ||bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.

Goo"ber (?), n. A peanut. [Southern U. S.]

Good (?), a. [Compar. Better (?); superl. Best (?). These words, though used as the comparative and superlative of good, are from a different root.] [AS. Gd, akin to D. goed, OS. gd, OHG. guot, G. gut, Icel. gr, Sw. & Dan. god, Goth. gds; prob. orig., fitting, belonging together, and akin to E. gather. &radic;29 Cf. Gather.]

1. Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; admirable; commendable; not bad, corrupt, evil, noxious, offensive, or troublesome, etc.

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very
good.

Gen. i. 31.

Good company, good wine, good welcome.

Shak.

2. Possessing moral excellence or virtue; virtuous; pious; religious; -- said of persons or actions.

In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works.

Tit. ii. 7.

3. Kind; benevolent; humane; merciful; gracious; polite; propitious; friendly; well-disposed; -- often followed by to or toward, also formerly by unto.

The men were very good unto us.

1 Sam. xxv. 15.

4. Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied upon; -- followed especially by for.

All quality that is good for anything is founded originally in
merit.

Collier.

5. Clever; skillful; dexterous; ready; handy; -- followed especially by at.

He . . . is a good workman; a very good tailor.

Shak.

Those are generally good at flattering who are good for nothing
else.

South.

6. Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound; not fallacious; valid; in a commercial sense, to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; having pecuniary ability; of unimpaired credit.

My reasons are both good and weighty.

Shak.

My meaning in saying he is a good man is . . . that he is
sufficient . . . I think I may take his bond.

Shak.

7. Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth.

Love no man in good earnest.

Shak.

8. Not small, insignificant, or of no account; considerable; esp., in the phrases a good deal, a good way, a good degree, a good share or part, etc.

9. Not lacking or deficient; full; complete.

Good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over.

Luke vi. 38.

10. Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc.

A good name is better than precious ointment

. Eccl. vii. 1.

As good as. See under As. -- For good, or For good and all, completely and finally; fully; truly.

The good woman never died after this, till she came to die for good
and all.

L'Estrange.

-- Good breeding, polite or polished manners, formed by education; a polite education.

Distinguished by good humor and good breeding.

Macaulay.

-- Good cheap, literally, good bargain; reasonably cheap.

-- Good consideration (Law). (a) A consideration of blood or of natural love and affection. Blackstone. (b) A valuable consideration, or one which will sustain a contract. -- Good fellow, a person of companionable qualities. [Familiar] -- Good folk, or Good people, fairies; brownies; pixies, etc. [Colloq. Eng. & Scot.] -- Good for nothing. (a) Of no value; useless; worthless. (b) Used substantively, an idle, worthless person.

My father always said I was born to be a good for nothing.

Ld. Lytton.

-- Good Friday, the Friday of Holy Week, kept in some churches as a fast, in memoory of our Savior's passion or suffering; the anniversary of the crucifixion. -- Good humor, or Good-humor, a cheerful or pleasant temper or state of mind. -- Good nature, or Good-nature, habitual kindness or mildness of temper or disposition; amiability; state of being in good humor.

The good nature and generosity which belonged to his character.

Macaulay.

The young count's good nature and easy persuadability were among
his best characteristics.

Hawthorne.

-- Good people. See Good folk (above). -- Good speed, good luck; good success; godspeed; -- an old form of wishing success. See Speed. -- Good turn, an act of kidness; a favor. -- Good will. (a) Benevolence; well wishing; kindly feeling. (b) (Law) The custom of any trade or business; the tendency or inclination of persons, old customers and others, to resort to an established place of business; the advantage accruing from tendency or inclination.

The good will of a trade is nothing more than the probability that
the old customers will resort to the old place.

Lord Eldon.

-- In good time. (a) Promptly; punctually; opportunely; not too soon nor too late. (b) (Mus.) Correctly; in proper time. -- To hold good, to remain true or valid; to be operative; to remain in force or effect; as, his promise holds good; the condition still holds good. -- To make good, to fulfill; to establish; to maintain; to supply (a defect or deficiency); to indemmify; to prove or verify (an accusation); to prove to be blameless; to clear; to vindicate.

Each word made good and true.

Shak.

Of no power to make his wishes good.

Shak.

I . . . would by combat make her good.

Shak.

Convenient numbers to make good the city.

Shak.

-- To think good, to approve; to be pleased or satisfied with; to consider expedient or proper.

If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear.

Zech. xi. 12.

Good, in the sense of wishing well, is much used in greeting and leave-taking; as, good day, good night, good evening, good morning, etc.

Good (?), n. 1. That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.; -- opposed to evil.

There be many that say, Who will show us any good ?

Ps. iv. 6.

2. Advancement of interest or happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit; -- opposed to harm, etc.

The good of the whole community can be promoted only by advancing
the good of each of the members composing it.

Jay.

3. pl. Wares; commodities; chattels; - - formerly used in the singular in a collective sense. In law, a comprehensive name for almost all personal property as distinguished from land or real property. Wharton.

He hath made us spend much good.

Chaucer.

Thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the
state of Venice.

Shak.

Dress goods, Dry goods, etc. See in the Vocabulary. -- Goods engine, a freight locomotive. [Eng.] -- Goods train, a freight train. [Eng.] -- Goods wagon, a freight car [Eng.] See the Note under Car, n., 2.

Good, adv. Well, -- especially in the phrase as good, with a following as expressed or implied; equally well with as much advantage or as little harm as possible.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book.

Milton.

As good as, in effect; virtually; the same as.

They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye
suppress yourselves.

Milton.

Good, v. t. 1. To make good; to turn to good. [Obs.]

2. To manure; to improve. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

{ Good`-by", Good`-bye" } (?), n. or interj. [A contraction of God be with ye (God be w ye, God bw' ye, God bwye).] Farewell; a form of address used at parting. See the last Note under By, prep. Shak.

Good`-den" (?), interj. [Corrupt. of good e'en, for good evening.] A form of salutation. [Obs.] Shak.

Good`-fel"low*ship (?), n. Agreeable companionship; companionableness.

Good"geon (?), n. (Naut.) Same as Gudgeon, 5.

Good`-hu"mored (?), a. Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.

Good`-hu"mored*ly, adv. With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner.

Good"ish (?), a. Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.

Goodish pictures in rich frames.

Walpole.

Good"less, a. Having no goods. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Good"li*ness (?), n. [From Goodly.] Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness.

Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes.

Sir P. Sidney.

Good"-look`ing (?), a. Handsome.

Good"ly, adv. Excellently. [Obs.] Spenser.

Good"ly, a. [Compar. Goodlier (?); superl. Goodliest.] [OE. godlich, AS. gdlic. See Good, and Like.]

1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable.

We have many goodly days to see.

Shak.

2. Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses.

The goodliest man of men since born.

Milton.

3. Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number.

Goodly and great he sails behind his link.

Dryden.

{ Good"ly*head (?), Good"ly*hood (?) } n. Goodness; grace; goodliness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Good"man (?), n. [Good + man]

1. A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. [Obs.]

With you, goodman boy, an you please.

Shak.

2. A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly. [Archaic] Chaucer.

Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the
guest-chamber ?

Mark xiv. 14.

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In the early colonial records of New England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr. This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England.

Good`-na"tured (?), a. Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked.

Syn. -- Good-natured, Good-tempered, Good- humored. Good-natured denotes a disposition to please and be pleased. Good-tempered denotes a habit of mind which is not easily ruffled by provocations or other disturbing influences. Good-humored is applied to a spirit full of ease and cheerfulness, as displayed in one's outward deportment and in social intercourse. A good-natured man recommends himself to all by the spirit which governs him. A good-humored man recommends himself particularly as a companion. A good-tempered man is rarely betrayed into anything which can disturb the serenity of the social circle.

Good`-na"tured*ly, adv. With mildness of temper.

Good"ness (?), n. [AS. gdnes.] The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.

Good" now" (?). An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. [Obs.] Shak.

Goods (?), n. pl. See Good, n., 3.

Good"ship, n. Favor; grace. [Obs.] Gower.

Good`-tem"pered (?), a. Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.

Good"wife` (?), n. The mistress of a house. [Archaic] Robynson (More's Utopia).

Good"y (?), n.; pl. Goodies (&?;). 1. A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl. [Colloq.]

2. (Zoˆl.) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.

Good"y, n.; pl. Goodies (#). [Prob. contr. from goodwife.] Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

Good"-year (?), n. [See Goujere.] The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [Obs.] Shak.

Good"y-good`y, a. Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [Colloq.]

Good"y*ship, n. The state or quality of a goody or goodwife [Jocose] Hudibraus.

||Goo*roo", Gu*ru" (&?;), n. [Hind. gur&?; a spiritual parent or ||teacher, Skr. guru heavy, noble, venerable, teacher. Cf. Grief.] A ||spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos. Malcom.

Goos"an`der (?), n. [OE. gossander, a tautological word formed fr. goose + gander. Cf. Merganser.] (Zoˆl.) A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

Goose (gs), n.; pl. Geese (gs). [OE. gos, AS. gs, pl. gs; akin to D. & G. gans, Icel. gs, Dan. gaas, Sw. gÂs, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, L. anser, for hanser, Gr. chh`n, Skr. hasa. &radic;233. Cf. Gander, Gannet, Ganza, Gosling.] (Zoˆl.)

1. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily AnserinÊ, and belonging to Anser, Branta, Chen, and several allied genera. See Anseres.

The common domestic goose is believed to have been derived from the European graylag goose (Anser anser). The bean goose (A. segetum), the American wild or Canada goose (Branta Canadensis), and the bernicle goose (Branta leucopsis) are well known species. The American white or snow geese and the blue goose belong to the genus Chen. See Bernicle, Emperor goose, under Emperor, Snow goose, Wild goose, Brant.

2. Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

The Egyptian or fox goose (Alopochen ∆gyptiaca) and the African spur-winged geese (Plectropterus) belong to the family PlectropteridÊ. The Australian semipalmated goose (Anseranas semipalmata) and Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis NovÊ-HollandiÊ) are very different from northern geese, and each is made the type of a distinct family. Both are domesticated in Australia.

3. A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.

4. A silly creature; a simpleton.

5. A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules,
the royal game of goose.

Goldsmith.

A wild goose chase, an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. -- Fen goose. See under Fen. -- Goose barnacle (Zoˆl.), any pedunculated barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas; -- called also duck barnacle. See Barnacle, and Cirripedia. -- Goose cap, a silly person. [Obs.] Beau. & . -- Goose corn (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus). -- Goose feast, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] -- Goose flesh, a peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also goose skin. -- Goose grass. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Galium (G. Aparine), a favorite food of geese; -- called also catchweed and cleavers. (b) A species of knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare). (c) The annual spear grass (Poa annua). -- Goose neck, anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Naut.), an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast. -- Goose quill, a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it. -- Goose skin. See Goose flesh, above. -- Goose tongue (Bot.), a composite plant (Achillea ptarmica), growing wild in the British islands. -- Sea goose. (Zoˆl.) See Phalarope. -- Solan goose. (Zoˆl.) See Gannet.

Goose"ber*ry (?), n.; pl. Gooseberries (#), [Corrupted for groseberry or groiseberry, fr. OF. groisele, F. groseille, -- of German origin; cf. G. krausbeere, kr‰uselbeere (fr. kraus crisp), D. kruisbes, kruisbezie (as if crossberry, fr. kruis cross; for kroesbes, kroesbezie, fr. kroes crisp), Sw. krusb‰r (fr. krus, krusing, crisp). The first part of the word is perh. akin to E. curl. Cf. Grossular, a.] 1. (Bot.) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.

2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith.

Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly shrub (Pereskia aculeata) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. -- Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Gooseberry fool. See lst Fool. -- Gooseberry worm (Zoˆl.), the larva of a small moth (Dakruma convolutella). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.

Goose"fish` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) See Angler.

Goose"foot` (?), n. (Bot.) A genus of herbs (Chenopodium) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.

Goos"er*y (?), n.; pl. Gooseries (&?;). 1. A place for keeping geese.

2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.

The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor.

Milton.

Goose"wing` (?), n. (Naut.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Goose"winged` (?), a. (Naut.) (a) Having a "goosewing." (b) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.

Goos"ish, a. Like a goose; foolish. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Goost (?), n. Ghost; spirit. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Goot (?), n. A goat. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Go"-out` (?), n. A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out. [Written also gowt.]

Go"pher (?), n. [F. gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See Gauffer.] (Zoˆl.) 1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family GeomyidÊ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.

The name was originally given by French settlers to many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the earth.

2. One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus, of the family SciuridÊ; as, the gray gopher (Spermophilus Franklini) and the striped gopher (S. tridecemlineatus); -- called also striped prairie squirrel, leopard marmot, and leopard spermophile. See Spermophile.

3. A large land tortoise (Testudo Carilina) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.

4. A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States.

Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. Raymond.

Go"pher wood` (?). [Heb. gpher.] A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. Gen. vi. 14.

||Go*rac"co (?), n. A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in ||hookahs in Western India.

Go"ral (?), n. (Zoˆl.) An Indian goat antelope (Nemorhedus goral), resembling the chamois.

Go"ra*my (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Same as Gourami.

Gor"-bel`lied (?), a. Bog- bellied. [Obs.]

Gor"-bel`ly, n. [Gore filth, dirt + belly.] A prominent belly; a big-bellied person. [Obs.]

Gorce (?), n. [OF. gort, nom. gorz, gulf, L. gurges whirlpool, gulf, stream. See Gorge.] A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear. [Obs.]

Gor"cock` (?), n. [Prob. from gore blood.] (Zoˆl.) The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse. [Prov. Eng.]

Gor"crow` (?), n. [AS. gor dung, dirt. See Gore blood, dirt.] (Zoˆl.) The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow. [Prov. Eng.]

Gord (?), n. [Written also gourd.] [Perh. hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd.] An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

||Gor`di*a"ce*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Gordian, 1.] (Zoˆl.) A division of ||nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and ||Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.

Gor"di*an (?), a. 1. Pertaining to Gordius, king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.

Gordian knot, an intricate knot tied by Gordius in the thong which connected the pole of the chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great averted the ill omen of his inability to loosen it by cutting it with his sword. Hence, a Gordian knot is an inextricable difficulty; and to cut the Gordian knot is to remove a difficulty by bold and energetic measures.

2. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the Gordiacea.

Gor"di*an, n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Gordiacea.

||Gor"di*us (?), n. [NL. See Gordian, 1.] (Zoˆl.) A genus of long, ||slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, ||when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit ||their eggs; -- called also hair eel, hairworm, and hair snake, from ||the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are ||metamorphosed horsehairs.

Gore (?), n. [AS. gor dirt, dung; akin to Icel. gor, SW. gorr, OHG. gor, and perh. to E. cord, chord, and yarn; cf. Icel. gˆrn, garnir, guts.] 1. Dirt; mud. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

2. Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton.

Gore, n. [OE. gore, gare, AS. g&?;ra angular point of land, fr. g&?;r spear; akin to D. geer gore, G. gehre gore, ger spear, Icel. geiri gore, geir spear, and prob. to E. goad. Cf. Gar, n., Garlic, and Gore, v.] 1. A wedgeshaped or triangular piece of cloth, canvas, etc., sewed into a garment, sail, etc., to give greater width at a particular part.

2. A small traingular piece of land. Cowell.

3. (Her.) One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

It is usually on the sinister side, and of the tincture called tennÈ. Like the other abatements it is a modern fancy and not actually used.

Gore, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Goring.] [OE. gar spear, AS. g&?;r. See 2d Gore.] To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab.

The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet.

Coleridge.

Gore, v. t. To cut in a traingular form; to piece with a gore; to provide with a gore; as, to gore an apron.

Gore"bill` (?), n. [2d gore + bill.] (Zoˆl.) The garfish. [Prov. Eng.]

Gor"fly` (?), n.; pl. Gorflies (#). [Gore (AS. gor) dung + fly.] (Zoˆl.) A dung fly.

Gorge (?), n. [F. gorge, LL. gorgia, throat, narrow pass, and gorga abyss, whirlpool, prob. fr. L. gurgea whirlpool, gulf, abyss; cf. Skr. gargara whirlpool, gr. to devour. Cf. Gorget.] 1. The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.

Spenser.

Now, how abhorred! . . . my gorge rises at it.

Shak.

2. A narrow passage or entrance; as: (a) A defile between mountains. (b) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear. See Illust. of Bastion.

3. That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge,
that all did him detest.

Spenser.

4. A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

5. (Arch.) A concave molding; a cavetto. Gwilt.

6. (Naut.) The groove of a pulley.

Gorge circle (Gearing), the outline of the smallest cross section of a hyperboloid of revolution. -- Gorge hook, two fishhooks, separated by a piece of lead. Knight.

Gorge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gorged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gorging (?).] [F. gorger. See Gorge, n.] 1. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

The fish has gorged the hook.

Johnson.

2. To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

The giant gorged with flesh.

Addison.

Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite.

Dryden.

Gorge, v. i. To eat greedily and to satiety. Milton.

Gorged (?), a. 1. Having a gorge or throat.

2. (Her.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.

3. Glutted; fed to the full.

Gor"ge*let (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

Gor"geous (?), a. [OF. gorgias beautiful, glorious, vain, luxurious; cf. OF. gorgias ruff, neck handkerchief, and F. gorge throat, and se pengorger to assume airs. Cf. Gorge, n.] Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.

Cloud-land, gorgeous land.

Coleridge.

Gorgeous as the sun at midsummer.

Shak.

-- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n.

||Gor`ge*rin" (?), n. [F., fr. gorge neck.] (Arch.) In some columns, ||that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the ||annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- ||called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of ||Column.

Gor"get (?), n. [OF. gorgete, dim. of gorge throat. See Gorge, n.] 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.

2. A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.

Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.

Sir W. Scott.

3. A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.

4. A ruff worn by women. [Obs.]

5. (Surg.) (a) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy. (b) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget. Dunglison.

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6. (Zoˆl.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.

Gorget hummer (Zoˆl.), a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat.

Gor"gon (gÙr"gn), n. [L. Gorgo, -onis, Gr. Gorgw`, fr. gorgo`s terrible.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) One of three fabled sisters, Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa, with snaky hair and of terrific aspect, the sight of whom turned the beholder to stone. The name is particularly given to Medusa.

2. Anything very ugly or horrid. Milton.

3. (Zoˆl.) The brindled gnu. See Gnu.

Gor"gon, a. Like a Gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as, a Gorgon face. Dryden.

||Gor`go*na"ce*a (gÙr`g*n"sh*), n. pl. [NL.] (Zoˆl.) See Gorgoniacea.

Gor*go"ne*an (gÙr*g"n*an), a. See Gorgonian, 1.

||Gor`go*ne"ion (gÙr`g*n"yn), n.; pl. Gorgoneia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. ||Gorgo`neios, equiv. to Gorgei^os belonging to a Gorgon.] (Arch.) A ||mask carved in imitation of a Gorgon's head. Elmes.

||Gor*go"ni*a (gÙr*g"n*), n. [L., a coral which hardens in the air.] ||(Zoˆl.) 1. A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now ||restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia ||flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a ||flexible, horny axis.

2. Any slender branched gorgonian.

||Gor*go`ni*a"ce*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Gorgonia.] (Zoˆl.) One of the ||principal divisions of Alcyonaria, including those forms which have a ||firm and usually branched axis, covered with a porous crust, or ||cúnenchyma, in which the polyp cells are situated.

The axis is commonly horny, but it may be solid and stony (composed of calcium carbonate), as in the red coral of commerce, or it may be in alternating horny and stony joints, as in Isis. See Alcyonaria, Anthozoa, Cúnenchyma.

Gor*go"ni*an (?), a. [L. Gorgoneus.]

1. Pertaining to, or resembling, a Gorgon; terrifying into stone; terrific.

The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.

Milton.

2. (Zoˆl.) Pertaining to the Gorgoniacea; as, gorgonian coral.

Gor*go"ni*an, n. (Zoˆl.) One of the Gorgoniacea.

Gor"gon*ize (?), v. t. To have the effect of a Gorgon upon; to turn into stone; to petrify. [R.]

Gor"hen` (?), n. [Gor- as in gorcock + hen.] (Zoˆl.) The female of the gorcock.

Go*ril"la (?), n. [An African word; found in a Greek translation of a treatise in Punic by Hanno, a Carthaginian.] (Zoˆl.) A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.

Gor"ing (?), or Gor"ing cloth` (&?;), n., (Naut.) A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

Gorm (?), n. Axle grease. See Gome. [Prov. Eng.]

Gorm, v. t. To daub, as the hands or clothing, with gorm; to daub with anything sticky. [Prov. Eng.]

Gor"ma (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The European cormorant.

Gor"mand (?), n. [F. gourmand; cf. Prov. F. gourmer to sip, to lap, gourmacher to eat improperly, F. gourme mumps, glanders, Icel. gormr mud, mire, Prov. E. gorm to smear, daub; all perh. akin to E. gore blood, filth. Cf. Gourmand.] A greedy or ravenous eater; a luxurious feeder; a gourmand.

Gor"mand, a. Gluttonous; voracious. Pope.

Gor"mand*er (?), n. See Gormand, n. [Obs.]

Gor"mand*ism (?), n. Gluttony.

Gor"mand*ize (?), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Gormandized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gormandizing (?).] [F. gourmandise gluttony. See Gormand.] To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton. Shak.

Gor"mand*i`zer (?), n. A greedy, voracious eater; a gormand; a glutton.

Go*roon" shell` (?). (Zoˆl.) A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale).

Gorse (?), n. [OE. & AS. gorst; perh. akin to E. grow, grass.] (Bot.) Furze. See Furze.

The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse.

Cowper.

Gorse bird (Zoˆl.), the European linnet; -- called also gorse hatcher. [Prov. Eng.] -- Gorse chat (Zoˆl.), the winchat. -- Gorse duck, the corncrake; -- called also grass drake, land drake, and corn drake.

Gor"y (?), a. [From Gore.]

1. Covered with gore or clotted blood.

Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me.

Shak.

2. Bloody; murderous. "Gory emulation." Shak.

Gos"hawk` (?), n. [AS. g&?;shafuc, lit., goosehawk; or Icel. gshaukr. See Goose, and Hawk the bird.] (Zoˆl.) Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species and varieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and the American (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are noted for their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australian goshawk (A. NovÊ-HollandiÊ) is pure white.

Gos"herd (?), n. [OE. gosherde. See Goose, and Herd a herdsman.] One who takes care of geese.

Gos"let (?), n. (Zoˆl.) One of several species of pygmy geese, of the genus Nettepus. They are about the size of a teal, and inhabit Africa, India, and Australia.

Gos"ling (?), n. [AS. g&?;s goose + -ling.]

1. A young or unfledged goose.

2. A catkin on nut trees and pines. Bailey.

Gos"pel (?), n. [OE. gospel, godspel, AS. godspell; god God + spell story, tale. See God, and Spell, v.]

1. Glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation.

And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and
preaching the gospel of the kingdom.

Matt. iv. 23.

The steadfast belief of the promises of the gospel.

Bentley.

It is probable that gospel is from. OE. godspel, God story, the narrative concerning God; but it was early confused with god spell, good story, good tidings, and was so used by the translators of the Authorized version of Scripture. This use has been retained in most cases in the Revised Version.

Thus the literal sense [of gospel] is the "narrative of God," i.
e., the life of Christ.

Skeat.