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Goer

GO'ER, noun [from go.] One that goes; a runner or walker; one that has a gait good or bad.

1. One that transacts business between parties; in an ill sense.

2. A foot.

3. A term applied to a horse; as a good goer; a safe goer [Unusual in the U. States.]

Goety

GO'ETY, noun Invocation of evil spirits. [Not in use.]

Goff

GOFF, noun A foolish clown; also, a game. [See Golf.]

Goffish

GOFF'ISH, adjective Foolish; stupid.

Gog

GOG, noun Haste; ardent desire to go.

Goggle

GOG'GLE, verb intransitive [Latin celo; or from gog.]

To strain or roll the eyes.

And wink and goggle like an owl.

GOG'GLE, adjective Having full eyes; staring.

GOG'GLE, noun A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

Goggle-Eye

GOG'GLE-EYE, noun A rolling or staring eye.

Goggle-Eyed

GOG'GLE-EYED, adjective Having prominent, distorted or rolling eyes.

Goggled

GOG'GLED, adjective Prominent; staring, as the eye.

Goggles

GOG'GLES, noun plural

1. In surgery, instruments used to cure squinting, or the distortion of the eyes which occasions it.

2. Cylindrical tubes, in which are fixed glasses for defending the eyes from cold, dust, etc. and sometimes with colored glasses to abate the intensity of light.

3. Blinds for horses that are apt to take fright.

Going

GO'ING, participle present tense [from go.] Moving; walking; traveling; turning; rolling; flying; sailing, etc.

GO'ING, noun The act of moving in any manner.

1. The act of walking.

2. Departure.

3. Pregnancy.

4. Procedure; way; course of life; behavior; deportment; used chiefly in the plural.

His eyes are on the ways of man, and he seeeth all his goings. Job 34:21.

5. Procedure; course of providential agency or government.

They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. Psalms 68:24.

Going out,

Goings out, In scripture, utmost extremity or limit; the point where an extended body terminates. Numbers 34:5.9.

1. Departure or journeying. Numbers 33:2.

Goiter

GOIT'ER, noun The bronchocele; a large tumor that forms gradually on the human throat between the trachea and the skin.

The inhabitants of this part of the Valais are subject to goiters.

Goitrous

GOIT'ROUS, adjective Pertaining to the goiter; partaking of the nature of bronchocele.

1. Affected with bronchocele.

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

Gola

GO'LA, noun In architecture, the same as cymatium.

Gold

GOLD, noun

1. A precious metal of a bright yellow color, and the most ductile and malleable of all the metals. It is the heaviest metal except platina; and being a very dense, fixed substance, and not liable to be injured by air, it is well fitted to be used as coin, or a representative of commodities in commerce. Its ductility and malleability render it the most suitable metal for gilding. It is often found native in solid masses, as in Hungary and Peru; though generally in combination with silver, copper or iron.

2. Money.

For me, the gold of France did not seduce--

3. Something pleasing or valuable; as a heart of gold

4. A bright yellow color; as a flower edged with gold

5. Riches; wealth.

GOLD of pleasure, a plant of the genus Myagrum.

GOLD, adjective Made of gold; consisting of gold; as a gold chain.

Gold-Finder

GOLD-FINDER, noun One who finds gold; one who empties jakes. [Not much used.]

Gold-Hammer

GOLD-HAMMER, noun A kind of bird.

Gold-Hilted

GOLD-HILTED, adjective Having a golden hilt.

Gold-Pleasure

GOLD-PLEASURE, for gold of pleasure, a plant of the genus Myagrum.

Gold-Proof

GOLD-PROOF, adjective Proof against bribery or temptation by money.

Gold-Size

GOLD-SIZE, noun A size or glue for burnishing gilding.

Goldbeaten

GOLDBEATEN, adjective Gilded. [Little used.]

Goldbeater

GOLDBEATER, noun One whose occupation is to beat or foliate gold for gilding.

GOLDBEATER's skin, the intestinum rectum of an ox, which goldbeaters lay between the leaves of the metal while they beat it, whereby the membrane is reduced very thin, and made fit to be applied to cuts and fresh wounds.

Goldbound

GOLDBOUND, adjective Encompassed with gold.

GOLD COAST, noun In geography, the coast of Africa where gold is found; being a part of the coast of Guinea.

Golden

GOLDEN, adjective goldn. Made of gold; consisting of gold.

1. Bright; shining; splendid; as the golden sun.

Reclining soft on many a golden cloud.

2. Yellow; of a gold color; as a golden harvest; golden fruit.

3. Excellent; most valuable; as the golden rule.

4. Happy; pure; as the golden age, the age of simplicity and purity of manners.

5. Preeminently favorable or auspicious.

Let not slip the golden opportunity.

GOLDEN number, in chronology, a number showing the year of the moon's cycle.

GOLDEN rule, in arithmetic, the rule of three or rule of proportion.

Golden-Cups

GOLDEN-CUPS, noun A plant, the Ranunculus.

Golden-Lungwort

GOLDEN-LUNGWORT, noun A plant of the genus Hieracium.

Golden-Mouseear

GOLDEN-MOUSEEAR, noun A plant of the genus Hieracium.

Golden-Samphire

GOLDEN-SAM'PHIRE, noun A plant, the Inula crithmifolia.

Golden-Saxifrage

GOLDEN-SAX'IFRAGE, noun A plant, the Chrysosplenium.

Golden-Thistle

GOLDEN-THISTLE, noun A plant of the genus Scolymus.

Goldenfish

GOLDENFISH, noun A fish of the genus Cyprinus, of the size of a pilchard, so named from its bright color. These fishes are bred by the Chinese, in small ponds, in basons or porcelain vessels, and kept for ornament.

Goldenly

GOLDENLY, adverb Splendidly; delightfully. [Not used.]

Goldenmaidenhair

GOLDEN'MAIDENHAIR, noun A plant of the genus Polytrichum.

Goldenrod

GOLDENROD, noun A plant, the Solidago.

Goldenrod-Tree

GOLDENROD-TREE, noun A plant, the Bosea.

Goldfinch

GOLDFINCH, noun The Fringilla carduelis, a bird so named from the color of its wings.

Goldfish

GOLDFISH

GOLDING, noun A sort of apple.

Golding

GOLDING, n. A sort of apple.

Goldlace

GOLDLACE, noun A lace wrought with gold.

Goldlaced

GOLDLACED, adjective Trimmed with gold lace.

Goldleaf

GOLDLEAF, noun Gold foliated or beaten into a thin leaf.

Goldney

GOLDNEY, noun A fish, the gilthead.

Goldsmith

GOLDSMITH, noun An artisan who manufactures vessels and ornaments of gold and silver.

1. A banker; one who manages the pecuniary concerns of others. [Goldsmiths were formerly bankers in England, but in America the practice does not exist, nor is the word used in this sense.]

Goldthread

GOLDTHREAD, noun A thread formed of flatted gold laid over a thread of silk, by twisting it with a wheel and iron bobbins.

1. A plant, the Helleborus trifolius; so called from its fibrous yellow roots.

Goldwire

GOLDWIRE, noun An ingot of silver, superficially covered with gold and drawn through small round holes.

Goldylocks

GOLDYLOCKS, noun A name given to certain plants of the genera Chrysocoma and Gnaphalium.

Golf

GOLF, noun A game with ball and bat, in which he who drives the ball

into a hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.

Goll

GOLL, noun [Gr. a cavity, and the hollow of the hand.]

Hands; paws; claws. [Not in use or local.]

Goloe-Shoe

GOLO'E-SHOE, noun An over-shoe; a shoe worn over another to keep the foot dry.

Gom

GOM, noun A man.

Gondola

GON'DOLA, noun A flat-bottomed boat, very long and narrow, used at Venice in Italy on the canals. A gondola of middle size is about thirty feet long and four broad, terminating at each end in a sharp point or peak rising to the highth of a man. It is usually rowed by two men, called gondoliers, who propel the boat by pushing the oars. The gondola is also used in other parts of Italy for a passage boat.

Gondolier

GONDOLIE'R, noun A man who rows a gondola.

Gone

GONE, participle passive of go; pronounced nearly gawn.

1. Departed.

It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from

Jerusalem to Gath. 1 Kings 2:41.

2. Advanced; forward in progress; with far, farther, or further; as a man far gone in intemperance.

3. Ruined; undone. Exert yourselves, or we are gone

4. Past; as, these happy days are gone; sometimes with by. Those times are gone by.

5. Lost.

When her masters saw that the hope of their gains

were gone---Acts 16:6.

6. Departed from life; deceased; dead.

Gonfalon

GON'FALON

GONFALONIE'R, noun A chief standard bearer.

Gonfalonier

GONFALONIE'R, n. A chief standard bearer.

Gonfanon

GON'FANON, noun [Latin pannus, cloth.] An ensign or standard; colors.

Gong

GONG, noun A privy or jakes.

1. An instrument made of brass, of a circular form, which the Asiatics strike with a wooden mallet.

Goniometer

GONIOM'ETER, noun [Gr. angle, and measure.] An instrument for measuring solid angles, or the inclination of planes.

Goniometrical

GONIOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to a goniometer. goniometrical lines are used for measuring the quantity of angles.

Gonorrhea

GONORRHE'A, noun [Gr. semen, and to flow.] A morbid discharge in venereal complaints.

Good

GOOD, adjective

1. Valid; legally firm; not weak or defective; having strength adequate to its support; as a good title; a good deed; a good claim.

2. Valid; sound; not weak, false or fallacious; as a good argument.

3. Complete or sufficiently perfect in its kind; having the physical qualities best adapted to its design and use; opposed to bad, imperfect, corrupted, impaired. We say, good timber, good cloth, a good soil, a good color.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and

behold, it was very good Genesis 1:4.

4. Having moral qualities best adapted to its design and use, or the qualities which God's law requires; virtuous; pious; religious; applied to persons, and opposed to bad, vitious, wicked, evil.

Yet peradventure for a good man some would

even dare to die. Romans 5:7.

5. Conformable to the moral law; virtuous; applied to actions.

In all things showing thyself a pattern of good works.

Titus 2:3.

6. Proper; fit; convenient; seasonable; well adapted to the end. It was a good time to commence operations. He arrived in good time.

7. Convenient; useful; expedient; conducive to happiness.

It is not good that the man should be alone. Genesis 2:9.

8. Sound; perfect; uncorrupted; undamaged. This fruit will keep good the whole year.

9. Suitable to the taste or to health; wholesome; salubrious; palatable; not disagreeable or noxious; as fruit good to eat; a tree good for food. Genesis 2:9.

10. Suited to produce a salutary effect; adapted to abate or cure; medicinal; salutary; beneficial; as, fresh vegetables are good for scorbutic diseases.

11. Suited to strengthen or assist the healthful functions; as, a little wine is good for a weak stomach.

12. Pleasant to the taste; as a good apple.

My son, eat thou honey, because it is good and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste. Proverbs 24:13.

13. Full; complete.

The protestant subjects of the abbey make up a good third of its people.

14. Useful; valuable; having qualities or a tendency to produce a good effect.

All quality, that is good for any thing, is originally founded on merit.

15. Equal; adequate; competent. His security is good for the amount of the debt; applied to persons able to fulfill contracts.

Antonio is a good man.

16. Favorable; convenient for any purpose; as a good stand for business; a good station for a camp.

17. Convenient; suitable; safe; as a good harbor for ships.

18. Well qualified; able; skillful; or performing duties with skill and fidelity; as a good prince; a good commander; a good officer; a good physician.

19. Ready; dexterous.

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

20. Kind; benevolent; affectionate; as a good father; good will.

21. Kind; affectionate; faithful; as a good friend.

22. Promotive of happiness; pleasant; agreeable; cheering; gratifying.

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. Psalms 133:1.

23. Pleasant or prosperous; as, good morrow, Sir; good morning.

24. Honorable; fair; unblemished; unimpeached; as a man of good fame or report.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

Ecclesiastes 7:1.

25. Cheerful; favorable to happiness. Be of good comfort.

26. Great or considerable; not small nor very great; as a good while ago; he is a good way off, or at a good distance; he has a good deal of leisure; I had a good share of the trouble. Here we see the primary sense of extending, advancing.

27. Elegant; polite; as good breeding.

28. Real; serious; not feigned.

Love not in good earnest.

29. Kind; favorable; benevolent; humane.

The men were very good to us. 1 Samuel 25:3.

30. Benevolent; merciful; gracious.

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are

of a clean heart. Psalms 73:1.

31. Seasonable; commendable; proper.

Why trouble ye the woman, for she hath

wrought a good work on me. Matthew 26:10.

32. Pleasant; cheerful; festive.

We come in a good day. 1 Samuel 25:3.

33. Companionable; social; merry.

It is well known, that Sir Roger had been a good fellow in his youth.

34. Brave; in familiar language. You are a good fellow.

35. In the phrases, the good man, applied to the master of the house, and good woman, applied to the mistress, good sometimes expresses a moderate degree of respect, and sometimes slight contempt. Among the first settlers of New England, it was used as a title instead of Mr.; as Goodman Jones; Goodman Wells.

36. The phrase good will is equivalent to benevolence; but it signifies also an earnest desire, a hearty wish, entire willingness or fervent zeal; as, we entered into the service with a good will; he laid on stripes with a good will.

37. Comely; handsome; well formed; as a good person or shape.

38. Mild; pleasant; expressing benignity or other estimable qualities; as a good countenance.

39. Mild; calm; not irritable or fractious; as a good temper.

40. Kind; friendly; humane; as a good heart or disposition.

GOOD advice, wise and prudent counsel.

GOOD heed, great care; due caution.

In good south, in good truth; in reality.

To make good to perform; to fulfill; as, to make good one's word or promise; that is to make it entire or unbroken.

1. To confirm or establish; to prove; to verify; as, to make good a charge or accusation.

2. To supply deficiency; to make up a defect or loss. I will make good what is wanting.

3. To indemnify; to give an equivalent for damages. If you suffer loss, I will make it good to you.

4. To maintain; to carry into effect; as, to make good a retreat.

To stand good to be firm or valid. His word or promise stands good

To think good to see good is to be pleased or satisfied; to think to be expedient.

If ye think good give me my price. Zechariah 11:12.

As good as, equally; no better than; the same as. We say, one is as good as dead. Hebrews 11:2.

As good as his word, equaling in fulfillment what was promised; performing to the extent.

GOOD, noun That which contributes to diminish or remove pain, or to increase happiness or prosperity; benefit; advantage; opposed to evil or misery. The medicine will do neither good nor harm. It does my heart good to see you so happy.

There are many that say, who will show us any good Psa 4.

1. Welfare; prosperity; advancement of interest or happiness. He labored for the good of the state.

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

2. Spiritual advantage or improvement; as the good of souls.

3. Earnest; not jest.

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

The phrase, for good and all, signifies, finally; to close the whole business; for the last time.

4. Moral works; actions which are just and in conformity to the moral law or divine precepts.

Depart from evil, and do good Psa 34.

5. Moral qualities; virtue; righteousness.

I find no good in this man.

6. The best fruits; richness; abundance.

I will give you the good of the land. Gen 45.

GOOD, verb transitive To manure. [Not in use.]

GOOD, adverb As good as well; with equal advantage. Had you not as good go with me? In America we use goods, the Gothic word. Had you not as goods go?

In replies, good signifies well; right; it is satisfactory; I am satisfied. I will be with you to morrow; answer, good very good So we use well, from the root of Latin valeo, to be strong.

Good-Breeding

GOOD-BREE'DING, noun Polite manners, formed by a good education; a polite education.

Good-By

GOOD-BY. [See By.]

Good-Conditioned

GOOD-CONDI'TIONED, adjective Being in a good state; having good qualities or favorable symptoms.

Good-Fellow

GOOD-FEL'LOW, noun A jolly companion. [This is hardly to be admitted as a compound word.]

GOOD-FEL'LOW, verb transitive To make a jolly companion; to besot. [Little used.]

Good-Fellowship

GOOD-FEL'LOWSHIP, noun Merry society.

Good-Friday

GOOD-FRI'DAY, noun A fast of the christian church, in memory of our Savior's sufferings, kept in passion week.

Good-Humor

GOOD-HU'MOR, noun A cheerful temper or state of mind.

Good-Humored

GOOD-HU'MORED, adjective Being of a cheerful temper.

Good-Humoredly

GOOD-HU'MOREDLY, adverb With a cheerful temper; in a cheerful way.

Good-Manners

GOOD-MAN'NERS, noun Propriety of behavior; politeness; decorum.

Good-Nature

GOOD-NA'TURE, noun Natural mildness and kindness of disposition.

Good-Natured

GOOD-NA'TURED, adjective Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked.

Good-Naturedly

GOOD-NA'TUREDLY, adverb With mildness of temper.

Good-Now

GOOD-NOW. An exclamation of wonder or surprise.

1. An exclamation of entreaty. [Not used.]

Good-Speed

GOOD-SPEED, noun Good success; an old form of wishing success. [See Speed.]

Good-Wife

GOOD-WIFE, noun The mistress of a family.

Good-Will

GOOD-WILL, noun Benevolence.

Good-Woman

GOOD-WOMAN, noun The mistress of a family.

Goodings

GOOD'INGS, noun In seamen's language, clamps of iron bolted on the stern-post of a ship, whereon to hang the rudder.

Goodless

GOOD'LESS, adjective Having no goods.

Goodliness

GOOD'LINESS, noun [from goodly.] Beauty of form; grace; elegance.

Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes.

Goodly

GOOD'LY, adverb Excellently.

GOOD'LY, adjective Being of a handsome form; beautiful; graceful; as a goodly person; goodly raiment; goodly houses.

1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable; as goodly days.

2. Bulky; swelling; affectedly turgid.

Goodlyhead

GOOD'LYHEAD, noun Goodness, grace. [Not in use.]

Goodman

GOOD'MAN, noun A familiar appellation of civility; sometimes used ironically.

With you, goodman boy, if you please.

1. A rustic term of compliment; as old goodman Dobson.

2. A familiar appellation of a husband; also, the master of a family. Proverbs 7:19. Matthew 24:43.

Goodness

GOOD'NESS, noun The state of being good; the physical qualities which constitute value, excellence or perfection; as the goodness of timber; the goodness of a soil.

1. The moral qualities which constitute christian excellence; moral virtue; religion.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness faith. Galatians 5:22.

2. Kindness; benevolence; benignity of heart; but more generally, acts of kindness; charity; humanity exercised. I shall remember his goodness to me with gratitude.

3. Kindness; benevolence of nature; mercy.

The Lord God--abundant in goodness and truth. Exodus 34:6.

4. Kindness; favor shown; acts of benevolence, compassion or mercy.

Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah

had done to Israel. Exodus 18:9.

Goods

GOODS, noun plural Movables; household furniture.

1. Personal or movable estate; as horses, cattle, utensils, etc.

2. Wares; merchandize; commodities bought and sold by merchants and traders.

Goodship

GOOD'SHIP, noun Favor; grace. [Not in use.]

Goody

GOOD'Y, noun A low term of civility; as goody Dobson.

Goodyship

GOOD'YSHIP, noun The state or quality of a goody. [Ludicrous.]

Googings

GOOG'INGS

GOOM, noun A man recently married, or who is attending his proposed spouse for the purpose of marriage; used in composition, as in bridegoom. It has been corrupted into groom.

Goom

GOOM, n. A man recently married, or who is attending his proposed spouse for the purpose of marriage; used in composition, as in bridegoom. It has been corrupted into groom.

Goosander

GOOS'ANDER, noun A migratory fowl of the genus Mergus, the diver or plunger; called also merganser.

Goose

GOOSE, noun goos. plural geese.

1. A well known aquatic fowl of the genus Anas; but the domestic goose lives chiefly on land, and feeds on grass. The soft feathers are used for beds, and the quills for pens. The wild goose is migratory.

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

Gooseberry

GOOSEBERRY, noun goos'berry. [Latin grossula. The English word is undoubtedly corrupted from crossberry, grossberry, or gorseberry; a name taken from the roughness of the shrub. See Cross and Gross.]

The fruit of a shrub, and the shrub itself, the Ribes grossularia. The shrub is armed with spines. Of the fruit there are several varieties.

The American gooseberry belongs to the genus Melastoma, and the West Indian, gooseberry to the genus Cactus.

Goosecap

GOOSECAP, noun goos'cap. A silly person.

Goosefoot

GOOSEFOOT, noun goos'foot. A plant, the Chenopodium.

Goosegrass

GOOSEGR'ASS, noun goos'grass. A plant of the genus Galium. Also, the name of certain plants of the genera Potentilla and Asperugo.

Gooseneck

GOOSENECK, noun goos'neck. In a ship, a piece of iron fixed on one end of the tiller, to which the laniard of the whip-staff or wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship; also, an iron hook on the inner end of a boom.

Goosequill

GOOSEQUILL, noun goos'quill. The large feather or quill of a goose; or a pen made with it.

Goosetongue

GOOSETONGUE, noun goos'tung. A plant of the genus Achillea.

Goosewing

GOOSEWING, noun goos'wing. In seamen's language, a sail set on a boom on the lee side of a ship; also, the clues or lower corners of a ship's main-sail or fore-sail, when the middle part is furled.

Goppish

GOP'PISH, adjective Proud; pettish. [Not in use.]

GOR'-BELLIED, adjective Big-bellied.

GOR'-BELLY, noun A prominent belly. [Not in use.]

Gor-Cock

GOR'-COCK, noun The moor-cock, red-grouse, or red-game; a fowl of the gallinaceous kind.

GOR'-CROW, noun The carrion-crow.

Gord

GORD, noun An instrument of gaming.

Gordian

GORD'IAN, adjective Intricate. [See the next word.]

Gordian knot, in antiquity, a knot in the leather or harness of Gordius, a king of Phrygia, so very intricate, that there was no finding where it began or ended. An oracle declared that he who should untie this knot should be master of Asia. Alexander, fearing that his inability to untie it should prove an ill augury, cut it asunder with his sword. Hence, in modern language, a gordian knot is an inextricable difficulty; and to cut the gordian knot, is to remove a difficulty by bold or unusual measures.

Gore

GORE, noun [Gr. from issuing.]

1. Blood; but generally, thick or clotted blood; blood that after effusion becomes inspissated.

2. Dirt; mud. [Unusual.]

GORE, noun

1. A wedge-shaped or triangular piece of cloth sewed into a garment to widen it in any part.

2. A slip or triangular piece of land.

3. In heraldry, an abatement denoting a coward. It consists of two arch lines, meeting in an acute angle in the middle of the fess point.

GORE, verb transitive

1. To stab; to pierce; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear.

2. To pierce with the point of a horn.

If an ox gore a man or a woman--Exodus 21:28.

Gored

GO'RED, participle passive Stabbed; pierced with a pointed instrument.

Gorge

GORGE, noun gorj. [Latin gurges.]

1. The throat; the gullet; the canal of the neck by which food passes to the stomach.

2. In architecture, the narrowest part of the Tuscan and Doric capitals, between the astragal, above the shaft of the column, and the annulets.

3. In fortification, the entrance of the platform of any work.

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

GORGE, verb transitive gorj. To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities. Hence,

1. To glut; to fill the throat or stomach; to satiate.

The giant, gorged with flesh---

GORGE, verb intransitive To feed.

Gorged

GORG'ED, participle passive Swallowed; glutted.

GORG'ED, adjective Having a gorge or throat.

1. In heraldry, bearing a crown or the like about the neck.

Gorgeous

GOR'GEOUS, adjective Showy; fine; splendid; glittering with gay colors.

With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway.

A gorgeous robe. Luke 23:11.

Gorgeously

GOR'GEOUSLY, adverb With showy magnificence; splendidly; finely. The prince was gorgeously arrayed.

Gorgeousness

GOR'GEOUSNESS, noun Show of dress or ornament; splendor of raiment.

Gorget

GORG'ET, noun A piece of armor for defending the throat or neck; a kind of breast-plate like a half-moon; also, a small convex ornament worn by officers on the breast.

1. Formerly, a ruff worn by females.

2. In surgery, gorget or gorgeret, is a cutting instrument used in lithotomy; also, a concave or cannulated conductor, called a blunt gorget

Gorging

GORG'ING, participle present tense Swallowing; eating greedily; glutting.

Gorgon

GORG'ON, noun [Gr.] A fabled monster of terrific aspect, the sight of which turned the beholder to stone. The poets represent the Gorgons as three sisters, Stheno, Euryale and Medusa; but authors are not agreed in the description of them.

1. Any thing very ugly or horrid.

GORG'ON, adjective Like a gorgon; very ugly or terrific; as a gorgon face.

Gorgonean

GORGO'NEAN

GORGO'NIAN, adjective Like a gorgon; pertaining to gorgons.

Gorgonia nobilis, in natural history, red coral.

GOR'-HEN, noun The female of the gor-cock.

Gorgonian

GORGO'NIAN, a. Like a gorgon; pertaining to gorgons.

Gorgonia nobilis, in natural history, red coral.

Goring

GO'RING, participle present tense [from gore.] Stabbing; piercing.

GO'RING, noun A pricking; puncture.

Gormand

GOR'MAND

GOR'MANDER, noun A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton.

Gormander

GOR'MANDER, n. A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton.

Gormandize

GOR'MANDIZE, verb intransitive To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously.

Gormandizer

GOR'MANDIZER, noun A greedy voracious eater.

Gormandizing

GOR'MANDIZING, participle present tense Eating greedily and voraciously.

Gorse

GORSE

GORSS, noun gors. [Latin crassus.] Furz, or whin, a thick prickly shrub, of the genus Ulex, bearing yellow flowers in winter.

Gorss

GORSS, n. gors. [L. crassus.] Furz, or whin, a thick prickly shrub, of the genus Ulex, bearing yellow flowers in winter.

Gory

GO'RY, adjective [from gore.] Covered with congealed or clotted blood; as gory locks.

1. Bloody; murderous.

Goshawk

GOS'HAWK, noun A voracious fowl of the genus Falco, or hawk kind, larger than the common buzzard, but of a more slender shape. The general color of the plumage is a deep brown; the breast and belly white.

Gosling

GOS'LING, noun A young goose; a goose not full grown.

1. A catkin on nut trees and pines.

Gospel

GOS'PEL, noun [Latin evangelium, a good or joyful message.]

The history of the birth, life, actions, death, resurrection, ascension and doctrines of Jesus Christ; or a revelation of the grace of God to fallen man through a mediator, including the character, actions, and doctrines of Christ, with the whole scheme of salvation, as revealed by Christ and his apostles. This gospel is said to have been preached to Abraham, by the promise, 'in thee shall all nations be blessed.' Galatians 3:8.

It is called the gospel of God. Romans 1:1.

It is called the gospel of Christ. Romans 1:16.

It is called the gospel of salvation. Ephesians 1:13.

1. God's word.

2. Divinity; theology.

3. Any general doctrine.

GOS'PEL, verb transitive To instruct in the gospel; or to fill with sentiments of religion.

Gospel-Gossip

GOS'PEL-GOSSIP, noun One who is over zealous in running about among his neighbors to lecture on religious subjects.

Gospelize

GOS'PELIZE, verb transitive To form according to the gospel.

1. To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages.

Gospelized

GOS'PELIZED, participle passive Instructed in the christian religion.

Gospelizing

GOS'PELIZING, participle present tense Evangelizing; instructing in the christian religion.

Gospeller

GOS'PELLER, noun An evangelist; also, a follower of Wickliffe, the first Englishman who attempted a reformation from popery. [Not much used.

1. He who reads the gospel at the altar.

Goss

GOSS, noun A kind of low furz or gorse.

Gossamer

GOS'SAMER, noun [Latin gossipium, cotton.] A fine filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furz or low bushes, and is probably formed by a species of spider.

Gossamery

GOS'SAMERY, adjective Like gossamer; flimsy; unsubstantial.

Gossip

GOS'SIP, noun

1. A sponsor; one who answers for a child in baptism; a godfather.

2. A tippling companion.

And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl.

3. One who runs from house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. [This is the sense in which the word is now used.]

4. A friend or neighbor.

5. Mere tattle; idle talk.

GOS'SIP, verb intransitive To prate; to chat; to talk much.

1. To be a pot-companion.

2. To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

Gossiping

GOS'SIPING, participle present tense Prating; chatting; running from place to place and tattling.

GOS'SIPING, noun A prating; a running about to collect tales and tattle.

Gossipred

GOS'SIPRED, noun Compaternity; spiritual affinity, for which a juror might be challenged. [Not used.]

Gossoon

GOSSOON', noun A boy; a servant. [Not in use.]

Gosting

GOS'TING, noun An herb.

Got

GOT, pret of get. The old preterit gat, pronounced got is nearly obsolete.

Goth

GOTH, noun One of an ancient and distinguished tribe or nation, which inhabited Scandinavia, now Sweden and Norway, whose language is now retained in those countries, and a large portion of it is found in English.

1. One rude or uncivilized; a barbarian.

2. A rude ignorant person.

Gothamist

GO'THAMIST, noun A person deficient in wisdom, so called from Gotham in Nottinghamshire, noted for some pleasant blunders.

Gothic

GOTH'IC, adjective Pertaining to the Goths; as gothic customs; gothic architecture; gothic barbarity.

1. Rude; ancient.

2. Barbarous.

GOTH'IC, noun The language of the Goths.

Gothicism

GOTH'ICISM, noun Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.

1. A Gothic idiom.

2. Conformity to the Gothic style of building.

Gothicize

GOTH'ICIZE, verb transitive To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.

Gotten

GOT AND GOTTEN participle passive of get.

Goud

GOUD, noun Woad. [Not used.]

Gouge

GOUGE, noun gouj. A round hollow chisel, used to cut holes, channels or grooves in wood or stone.

GOUGE, verb transitive gouj. To scoop out with a gouge

1. To force out the eye of a person with the thumb or finger; a barbarous practice.

Gouland

GOUL'AND, noun A plant or flower.

Goulard's Extract, so called from the inventor, a saturated solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a remedy for inflammation.

Gourd

GOURD, noun A plant and its fruit, of the genus Cucurbita. There are several species, as the bottle-gourd, the shell-gourd or calabash, the warted gourd etc. The shell is sometimes used for a piggin or for a bottle.

Gourd-Tree

GOURD-TREE, noun A tree, the Crescentia, found in the W. Indies.

Gourdiness

GOURDINESS, noun A swelling on a horse's leg after a journey.

Gourdy

GOURDY, adjective Swelled in the legs.

Gourmand

GOURMAND. [See Gormand.]

Gout

GOUT, noun [Latin gutta.]

1. The arthritis, a painful disease of the small joints, but sometimes affecting the stomach. It is often periodical or intermitting.

2. A drop. [Not used.]

GOUT, noun goo. [Latin gustus, taste.] Taste; relish.

Goutiness

GOUT'INESS, noun The state of being subject to the gout; gouty affections.

Goutswelled

GOUT'SWELLED, adjective Swelled with the gout.

Goutwort

GOUT'WORT, noun A plant, the Aegopodium.

Gouty

GOUT'Y, adjective Diseased with the gout, or subject to the gout; as a gouty person; a gouty joint; a gouty constitution.

1. Pertaining to the gout; as gouty matter.

2. Swelled; boggy; as gouty land. [Not in use.]

Govern

GOV'ERN, verb transitive [Latin guberno. The Latin guberno seems to be a compound.]

1. To direct and control, as the actions or conduct of men, either by established laws or by arbitrary will; to regulate by authority; to keep within the limits prescribed by law or sovereign will. Thus in free states, men are governed by the constitution and laws; in despotic states, men are governed by the edicts or commands of a monarch. Every man should govern well his own family.

2. To regulate; to influence; to direct. This is the chief point by which he is to govern all his counsels and actions.

3. To control; to restrain; to keep in due subjection; as, to govern the passions or temper.

4. To direct; to steer; to regulate the course or motion of a ship. The helm or the helmsman governs the ship.

5. In grammar, to require to be in a particular case; as, a verb transitive governs a word in the accusative case; or to require a particular case; as, a verb governs the accusative case.

GOV'ERN, verb intransitive To exercise authority; to administer the laws. The chief magistrate should govern with impartiality.

1. To maintain the superiority; to have the control.

Governable

GOV'ERNABLE, adjective That may be governerned, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient; submissive to law or rule.

Governance

GOV'ERNANCE, noun Government; exercise of authority; direction; control; management, either of a public officer, or of a private guardian or tutor.

Governant

GOV'ERNANT, noun A lady who has the care and management of young females; a governess. [The latter is more generally used.]

Governed

GOV'ERNED, participle passive Directed; regulated by authority; controlled; managed; influenced; restrained.

Governess

GOV'ERNESS, noun A female invested with authority to control and direct; a tutoress; an instructress; a woman who has the care of instructing and directing young ladies.

Governing

GOV'ERNING, pr. Directing; controlling; regulating by laws or edicts; managing; influencing; restraining.

1. Holding the superiority; prevalent; as a governing wind; a governing party n a state.

2. Directing; controlling; as a governing motive.

Government

GOV'ERNMENT, noun Direction; regulation. These precepts will serve for the government of our conduct.

1. Control; restraint. Men are apt to neglect the government of their temper and passions.

2. The exercise of authority; direction and restraint exercised over the actions of men in communities, societies or states; the administration of public affairs, according to established constitution, laws and usages, or by arbitrary edicts. Prussia rose to importance under the government of Frederick II.

3. The exercise of authority by a parent or householder. Children are often ruined by a neglect of government in parents.

Let family government be like that of our heavenly Father, mild, gentle and affectionate.

4. The system of polity in a state; that form of fundamental rules and principles by which a nation or state is governed, or by which individual members of a body politic are to regulate their social actions; a constitution, either written or unwritten, by which the rights and duties of citizens and public officers are prescribed and defined; as a monarchial government or a republican government

Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without the pretence of miracle or mystery, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

5. An empire, kingdom or state; any territory over which the right of sovereignty is extended.

6. The right of governing or administering the laws. The king of England vested the government of Ireland in the lord lieutenant.

7. The persons or council which administer the laws of a kingdom or state; executive power.

8. Manageableness; compliance; obsequiousness.

9. Regularity of behavior. [Not in use.]

10. Management of the limbs or body. [Not in use.]

11. In grammar, the influence of a word in regard to construction, as when established usage required that one word should cause another to be in a particular case or mode.

Governmental

GOVERNMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to government; made by government.

Governor

GOV'ERNOR, noun He that governs, rules or directs; one invested with supreme authority. The Creator is the rightful governor of all his creatures.

1. One who is invested with supreme authority to administer or enforce the laws; the supreme executive magistrate of a state, commmunity, corporation or post. Thus, in America, each state has its governor; Canada has its governor

2. A tutor; one who has the care of a young man; one who instructs him and forms his manners.

3. A pilot; one who steers a ship. James 3:4.

4. One possessing delegated authority. Joseph was governor over the land of Egypt. Obadiah was governor over Ahab's house. Damascus had a governor under Aretas the king.

Governorship

GOV'ERNORSHIP, noun The office of a governor.

Gowan

GOW'AN, noun A plant, a species of Bellis or daisy.

Gowk

GOWK, noun [See Gawk.]

Gown

GOWN, noun

1. A woman; s upper garment.

2. A long loose upper garment or robe, worn by professional men, as divines, lawyers, students, etc., who are called men of the gown or gownmen. It is made of any kind of cloth worn over ordinary clothes, and hangs down to the ankles or nearly so.

4. The dress of peace, or the civil magistracy; cedant arma togoe.

He Mars deposed, and arms to gowns made yield.

Gowned

GOWN'ED, adjective Dressed in a gown.

Gownman

GOWN'MAN, noun One whose professional habit is a gown.

The gownman learn'ed.

1. One devoted to the arts of peace.

Grab

GRAB, noun A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

GRAB, verb transitive To seize; to gripe suddenly. [Vulgar.]

Grabble

GRAB'BLE, verb intransitive [Eng. scrabble; allied to rub, or Latin rapio, or to both.]

1. To grope; to feel with the hands.

2. To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl.

Grabbling

GRAB'BLING, participle present tense Groping; feeling along; sprawling.

Grace

GRACE, noun [Latin gratia, which is formed on the Celtic; Eng. agree, congruous, and ready. The primary sense of gratus, is free, ready, quick, willing, prompt, from advancing.]

1. Favor; good will; kindness; disposition to oblige another; as a grant made as an act of grace

Or each, or all, may win a lady's grace

2. Appropriately, the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all the benefits men receive from him.

And if by grace then it is no more of works. Romans 11:5.

3. Favorable influence of God; divine influence or the influence of the spirit, in renewing the heart and restraining from sin.

My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Corinthians 12:9.

4. The application of Christ's righteousness to the sinner.

Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. Romans 5:2.

5. A state of reconciliation to God. Romans 5:2:2.

6. Virtuous or religious affection or disposition, as a liberal disposition, faith, meekness, humility, patience, etc. proceeding from divine influence.

7. Spiritual instruction, improvement and edification. Ephesians 4:29.

8. Apostleship, or the qualifications of an apostle. Ephesians 3:8.

9. Eternal life; final salvation. 1 Peter 1:13.

10. Favor; mercy; pardon.

Bow and sue for grace

With suppliant knee.

11. Favor conferred.

I should therefore esteem it a great favor and grace

12. Privilege.

To few great Jupiter imparts this grace

13. That in manner, deportment or language which renders it appropriate and agreeable; suitableness; elegance with appropriate dignity. We say, a speaker delivers his address with grace; a man performs his part with grace

GRACE was in all her steps.

Her purple habit sits with such a grace

On her smooth shoulders.

14. Natural or acquired excellence; any endowment that recommends the possessor to others; as the graces of wit and learning.

15. Beauty; embellishment; in general, whatever adorns and recommends to favor; sometimes, a single beauty.

I pass their form and every charming grace

16. Beauty deified; among pagans, a goddess. The graces were three in number, Aglaia, Thalia, and Euphrosyne, the constant attendants of Venus.

The loves delighted, and the graces played.

17. Virtue physical; as the grace of plants. [Not used.]

18. The title of a duke or an archbishop, and formerly of the king of England, meaning your goodness or clemency. His grace the Duke of York. Your grace will please to accept my thanks.

19. A short prayer before or after meat; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered.

20. In music, graces signifies turns, trills and shakes introduced for embellishment.

Day in grace in theology, time of probation, when an offer is made to sinners.

Days in grace in commerce, the days immediately following the day when a bill or note becomes due, which days are allowed to the debtor or payor to make payment in. In Great Britain and the United States the days of grace are three, but in other countries more; the usages of merchants being different.

GRACE, verb transitive To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify.

Great Jove and Phoebus graced his noble line.

And hail, ye fair, of every charm possess'd,

Who grace this rising empire of the west.

1. To dignify or raise by act of favor; to honor.

He might at his pleasure grace or disgrace whom

he would in court.

2. To favor; to honor.

3. To supply with heavenly grace

Grace-Cup

GRA'CE-CUP, noun The cup or health drank after grace.

Graced

GRA'CED, participle passive Adorned; embellished; exalted; dignifies; honored.

1. Beautiful; graceful. [Not in use.]

2. Virtuous; regular; chaste. [Not in use.]