GO, verb intransitive preterit tense went; participle passive gone.
1. In a general sense, to move; to pass; to proceed from one place, state or station to another; opposed to resting. A mill goes by water or by steam; a ship goes at the rate of five knots an hour; a clock goes fast or slow; a horse goes lame; a fowl or a ball goes with velocity through the air.
The mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12:5.
2. To walk; to move on the feet or step by step. The child begins to go alone at a year old.
You know that love
Will creep in service where it cannot go
3. To walk leisurely; not to run.
Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long that going will scarce serve the turn.
4. To travel; to journey by land or water. I must go to Boston. He has gone to Philadelphia. The minister is going to France.
5. To depart; to move from a place; opposed to come. The mail goes and comes every day, or twice a week.
I will let you go that ye may sacrifice. Exodus 8:1.
6. To proceed; to pass.
And so the jest goes round.
7. To move; to pass in any manner or to any end; as, to go to bed; to go to dinner; to go to war.
8. To move or pass customarily from place to place, denoting custom or practice. The child goes to school. A ship goes regularly to London. We go to church.
9. To proceed from one state or opinion to another; to change. He goes from one opinion to another. His estate is going to ruin.
10. To proceed in mental operations; to advance; to penetrate. We can go but a very little way in developing the causes of things.
11. To proceed or advance in accomplishing an end. This sun will not go far towards full payment of the debt.
12. To apply; to be applicable. The argument goes to this point only; it goes to prove too much.
13. To apply one's self.
Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.
14. To have recourse to; as, to go to law.
15. To be about to do; as, I was going to say. I am going to begin harvest. [This use is chiefly confined to the participle.]
16. To pass; to be accounted in value. All this goes for nothing. This coin goes for a crown.
17. To circulate; to pass in report. The story goes.
18. To pass; to be received; to be accounted or understood to be.
And the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 1 Samuel 17:32.
19. To move, or be in motion; as a machine. [See No.1.]
20. To move as fluid; to flow.
The god I am, whose yellow water flows
Around these fields, and fattens as it goes,
Tiber my name.
21. To have a tendency.
Against right reason all your counsels go
22. To be in compact or partnership.
They were to go equal shares in the booty.
23. To be guided or regulated; to proceed by some principle or rule. We are to go by the rules of law, or according to the precepts of scripture.
We are to go by another measure.
24. To be pregnant. The females of different animals go some a longer, some a shorter time.
25. To pass; to be alienated in payment or exchange. If our exports are of less value than our imports, our money must go to pay the balance.
26. To be loosed or released; to be freed from restraint. Let me go; let go the hand.
27. To be expended. His estate goes or has gone for spirituous liquors. [See No. 24.]
28. To extend; to reach. The line goes from one end to the other. His land goes to the bank of the Hudson.
29. to extend or lead in any direction. This road goes to Albany.
30. To proceed; to extend. This argument goes far towards proving the point. It goes a great way towards establishing the innocence of the accused.
31. To have effect; to extend in effect; to avail; to be of force or value. Money goes farther now than it did during the war.
32. To extend in meaning or purport.
His amorous expressions go no further than virtue may allow.
[In the three last examples, the sense of go depends on far, farther, further.]
33. To have a currency or use, as custom, opinion or manners.
I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.
34. To contribute; to conduce; to concur; to be an ingredient; with to or into. The substances which go into this composition. Many qualifications go to make up the well bred man.
35. To proceed; to be carried on. The business goes on well.
36. To proceed to final issue; to terminate; to succeed.
Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.
37. To proceed in a train, or in consequences.
How goes the night, boy?
38. To fare; to be in a good or ill state.
How goes it, comrade?
39. To have a tendency or effect; to operate.
These cases go to show that the court will vary the construction of instruments.
To go about, to set one's self to a business; to attempt; to endeavor.
They never go about to hide or palliate their vices.
1. In seamen's language, to tack; to turn the head of a ship.
To go abroad, to walk out of a house.
1. To be uttered, disclosed or published.
To go against, to invade; to march to attack.
1. To be in opposition; to be disagreeable.
To go aside, to withdraw; to retire into a private situation.
1. To err; to deviate from the right way.
To go astray, to wander; to break from an inclosure; also, to leave the right course; to depart from law or rule; to sin; to transgress.
To go away, to depart; to go to a distance.
To go between, to interpose; to mediate; to attempt to reconcile or to adjust differences.
To go by, to pass near and beyond.
1. To pass away unnoticed; to omit.
2. To fine or get in the conclusion.
In argument with men, a woman ever
GOes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
[A phrase now little used.]
To go down, to descend in any manner.
1. To fail; to come to nothing.
2. To be swallowed or received, not rejected. The doctrine of the divine right of kings will not go down in this period of the world.
To go forth to issue or depart out of a place.
To go forward, to advance.
To go hard with, to be in danger of a fatal issue; to have difficulty to escape.
To go in, to enter.
To go in to, to have sexual commerce with.
To go in and out, to do the business of life.
1. To go freely; to be at liberty. John 10:9.
To go off, to depart to a distance; to leave a place or station.
1. To die; to decease.
2. To be discharged, as fire arms; to explode.
To go on, to proceed; to advance forward.
1. To be put on, as a garment. The coat will not go on.
To go out, to issue forth; to depart from.
1. To go on an expedition.
2. To become extinct, as light or life; to expire. A candle goes out; fire goes out.
And life itself goes out at thy displeasure.
3. To become public. This story goes out to the world.
To go over, to read; to peruse; to study.
1. To examine; to view or review; as, to go over an account.
If we go over the laws of christianity--
2. To think over; to proceed or pass in mental operation.
3. To change sides; to pass from one party to another.
4. To revolt.
5. To pass from one side to the other, as of a river.
To go through, to pass in a substance; as, to go through water.
1. To execute; to accomplish; to perform thoroughly; to finish; as, to go through an undertaking.
2. To suffer; to bear; to undergo; to sustain to the end; as, to go through a long sickness; to go through an operation.
To go through with, to execute effectually.
To go under, to be talked of or known, as by a title or name; as, to go under the name of reformers.go up, to ascend; to rise.
To go upon, to proceed as on a foundation; to take as a principle supposed or settled; as, to go upon a supposition.
To go with, to accompany; to pass with others.
1. To side with; to be in party or design with.
To go ill with, to have ill fortune; not to prosper.
To go well with, to have good fortune; to prosper.
To go without, to be or remain destitute.
GO to, come, move, begin; a phrase of exhortation; also a phrase of scornful exhortation.
GO'-BETWEEN, noun [go and between.] An interposer; one who transacts business between parties.
GO'-BY, [go and by.] Evasion; escape by artifice.
1. A passing without notice; a thrusting away; a shifting off.
GO'-CART, noun [go and cart.] A machine with wheels, in which children learn to walk without danger of falling.
GOAD, noun A pointed instrument used to stimulate a beast to move faster.
GOAD, verb transitive To prick; to drive with a goad
1. To incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to urge forward, or to rouse by any thing pungent, severe, irritating or inflaming. He was goaded by sarcastic remarks or by abuse; goaded by desire or other passion.
GOADED, participle passive Pricked; pushed on by a goad; instigated.
GOADING, participle present tense Pricking; driving with a goad; inciting; urging on; rousing.
GOAL, noun
1. The point set to bound a race, and to which they run; the mark.
Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal
With rapid wheels.
2. Any starting post.
3. The end or final purpose; the end to which a design tends, or which a person aims to reach or accomplish.
Each individual seeks a several goal
GOAR, noun More usually gore, which see.
GOARISH, adjective Patched; mean.
GOAT, noun An animal or quadruped of the genus Capra. The horns are hollow, turned upwards, erect and scabrous. Goats are nearly of the size of sheep, but stronger, less timid and more agile. They delight to frequent rocks and mountains, and subsist on scanty coarse food. The milk of the goat is sweet, nourishing and medicinal, and the flesh furnishes provisions to the inhabitants of countries where they abound.
GOATFISH, noun A fish of the Mediterranean.
GOATHERD, noun One whose occupation is to tend goats.
GOATISH, adjective Resembling a goat in any quality; of a rank smell.
1. Lustful.
GOATSKIN, noun The skin of a goat.
GOB, noun [Heb. a hill, a boss.] A little mass or collection; a mouthful. [A low word.]
GOB'BET, noun A mouthful; a lump.
GOB'BET, verb transitive To swallow in large masses or mouthfuls. [A low word.]
GOB'BLE, verb transitive To swallow in large pieces; to swallow hastily.
GOB'BLE, verb intransitive To make a noise in the throat, as a turkey.
GOB'BLER, noun One who swallows in haste; a greedy eater; a gormandizer.
1. A name sometimes given to the turkey cock.
GOB'LET, noun A kind of cup or drinking vessel without a handle.
We love not loaded boards, and goblets crown'd.
GOB'LIN, noun
1. An evil spirit; a walking spirit; a frightful phantom.
To whom the goblin full of wrath, replied.
2. A fairy; an elf.
GOD, noun
1. The Supreme Being; Jehovah; the eternal and infinite spirit, the creator, and the sovereign of the universe.
GOD is a spirit; and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:24.
2. A false god; a heathen deity; an idol.
Fear not the gods of the Amorites. Judges 6:10.
3. A prince; a ruler; a magistrate or judge; an angel. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.
Exodus 22:28. Psalms 97:7.
[Gods here is a bad translation.]
4. Any person or thing exalted too much in estimation, or deified and honored as the chief good.
Whose god is their belly. Philippians 3:19.
GOD, verb transitive To deify. [Not used.]
GOD'CHILD, noun [god and child.] One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and promises to see educated as a christian.
GOD'DAUGHTER, noun [god and daughter.] A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism. [See Godfather.]
GOD'DESS, noun A female deity; a heathen deity of the female sex.
When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty.
1. In the language of love, a woman of superior charms or excellence.
GOD'DESSLIKE, adjective Resembling a goddess.
GOD'F'ATHER, noun The man who is sponsor for a child at baptism, who promises to answer for his future conduct and that he shall follow a life of piety, by this means laying himself under an indispensable obligation to instruct the child and watch over his conduct. This practice is of high antiquity in the christian church, and was probably intended to prevent children from being brought up in idolatry, in case the parents died before the children had arrived to years of discretion. In the catholic church the number of godfathers and godmothers is reduced to two; in the church of England, to three; but formerly the number was not limited.
GOD'F'ATHER, verb transitive To act as godfather; to take under one's fostering care.
GOD'HEAD, noun god'hed.
1. Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; applied to the true God, and to heathen deities.
2. A deity in person; a god or goddess.
GOD'LESS, adjective Having no reverence for God; impious; ungodly; irreligious; wicked.
1. Atheistical; having no belief in the existence of God.
GOD'LESSNESS, noun The state of being impious or irreligious.
GOD'LIKE, adjective Resembling God; divine.
1. Resembling a deity, or heathen divinity.
2. Of superior excellence; as godlike virtue; a godlike prince.
GOD'LILY, adverb Piously; righteously.
GOD'LINESS, noun [from godly.] Piety; belief in God, and reverence for his character and laws.
1. A religious life; a careful observance of the laws of God and performance of religious duties, proceeding from love and reverence for the divine character and commands; christian obedience.
Godliness is profitable unto all things. 1 Timothy 4:7.
2. Revelation; the system of christianity.
Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness;
God was manifest in the flesh. l Tim.3.
GOD'LING, noun A little deity; a diminutive god; as a puny godling
GOD'LY, adjective [god-like] Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws.
1. Living in obedience to God's commands, from a principle of love to him and reverence of his character and precepts; religious; righteous; as a godly person.
2. Pious; conformed to God's law; as a godly life.
GOD'LY, adverb Piously; righteously.
All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution. 2 Timothy 3:12.
GOD'LYHEAD, noun Goodness.
GOD'MOTHER, noun [god and mother.] A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism.
GOD'SHIP, noun Deity; divinity; the rank or character of a god.
O'er hills and dales their godships came.
GOD'SMITH, noun A maker of idols.
GOD'SON, noun One for whom another has been sponsor at the font.
GOD'WARD. Toward God. [An ill-formed word.]
GOD'WIT, noun A fowl of the grallic order and genus Scolopax. It has a bill four inches long; the feathers on the head, neck and back are of a light reddish brown; those on the belly white, and the tail is regularly barred with black and white. This fowl frequents fens and the banks of rivers, and its flesh is esteemed a great delicacy.
GOD'YELD
GOD'YIELD, adverb [Supposed to be contracted from good or god, and shield.] A term of thanks.
GOD'YIELD, adv. [Supposed to be contracted from good or god, and shield.] A term of thanks.
GO'EL, adjective Yellow.
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.]
GO'ETY, noun Invocation of evil spirits. [Not in use.]
GOFF, noun A foolish clown; also, a game. [See Golf.]
GOFF'ISH, adjective Foolish; stupid.
GOG, noun Haste; ardent desire to go.
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.
GOG'GLED, adjective Prominent; staring, as the eye.
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.
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.
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.
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.
GO'LA, noun In architecture, the same as cymatium.
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.
GOLDBEATEN, adjective Gilded. [Little used.]
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, 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, 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.
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, adverb Splendidly; delightfully. [Not used.]
GOLDEN'MAIDENHAIR, noun A plant of the genus Polytrichum.
GOLDENROD, noun A plant, the Solidago.
GOLDFINCH, noun The Fringilla carduelis, a bird so named from the color of its wings.
GOLDFISH
GOLDING, noun A sort of apple.
GOLDING, n. A sort of apple.
GOLDLACE, noun A lace wrought with gold.
GOLDLACED, adjective Trimmed with gold lace.
GOLDLEAF, noun Gold foliated or beaten into a thin leaf.
GOLDNEY, noun A fish, the gilthead.
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, 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, noun An ingot of silver, superficially covered with gold and drawn through small round holes.
GOLDYLOCKS, noun A name given to certain plants of the genera Chrysocoma and Gnaphalium.
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, noun [Gr. a cavity, and the hollow of the hand.]
Hands; paws; claws. [Not in use or local.]
GOM, noun A man.
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.
GONDOLIE'R, noun A man who rows a gondola.
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.
GON'FALON
GONFALONIE'R, noun A chief standard bearer.
GONFALONIE'R, n. A chief standard bearer.
GON'FANON, noun [Latin pannus, cloth.] An ensign or standard; colors.
GONG, noun A privy or jakes.
1. An instrument made of brass, of a circular form, which the Asiatics strike with a wooden mallet.
GONIOM'ETER, noun [Gr. angle, and measure.] An instrument for measuring solid angles, or the inclination of planes.
GONIOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to a goniometer. goniometrical lines are used for measuring the quantity of angles.
GONORRHE'A, noun [Gr. semen, and to flow.] A morbid discharge in venereal complaints.
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'INGS, noun In seamen's language, clamps of iron bolted on the stern-post of a ship, whereon to hang the rudder.
GOOD'LESS, adjective Having no goods.
GOOD'LINESS, noun [from goodly.] Beauty of form; grace; elegance.
Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes.
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.
GOOD'LYHEAD, noun Goodness, grace. [Not in use.]
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.
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, 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.
GOOD'SHIP, noun Favor; grace. [Not in use.]
GOOD'Y, noun A low term of civility; as goody Dobson.
GOOD'YSHIP, noun The state or quality of a goody. [Ludicrous.]
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, 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.
GOOS'ANDER, noun A migratory fowl of the genus Mergus, the diver or plunger; called also merganser.
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, 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, noun goos'cap. A silly person.
GOOSEFOOT, noun goos'foot. A plant, the Chenopodium.
GOOSEGR'ASS, noun goos'grass. A plant of the genus Galium. Also, the name of certain plants of the genera Potentilla and Asperugo.
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, noun goos'quill. The large feather or quill of a goose; or a pen made with it.
GOOSETONGUE, noun goos'tung. A plant of the genus Achillea.
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.
GOP'PISH, adjective Proud; pettish. [Not in use.]
GOR'-BELLIED, adjective Big-bellied.
GOR'-BELLY, noun A prominent belly. [Not in use.]
GORD, noun An instrument of gaming.
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, 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.
GO'RED, participle passive Stabbed; pierced with a pointed instrument.
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.
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.
GOR'GEOUS, adjective Showy; fine; splendid; glittering with gay colors.
With gorgeous wings, the marks of sovereign sway.
A gorgeous robe. Luke 23:11.
GOR'GEOUSLY, adverb With showy magnificence; splendidly; finely. The prince was gorgeously arrayed.
GOR'GEOUSNESS, noun Show of dress or ornament; splendor of raiment.
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
GORG'ING, participle present tense Swallowing; eating greedily; glutting.
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.
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.
GORGO'NIAN, a. Like a gorgon; pertaining to gorgons.
Gorgonia nobilis, in natural history, red coral.
GO'RING, participle present tense [from gore.] Stabbing; piercing.
GO'RING, noun A pricking; puncture.
GOR'MAND
GOR'MANDER, noun A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton.
GOR'MANDER, n. A greedy or ravenous eater; a glutton.
GOR'MANDIZE, verb intransitive To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously.
GOR'MANDIZER, noun A greedy voracious eater.
GOR'MANDIZING, participle present tense Eating greedily and voraciously.
GORSE
GORSS, noun gors. [Latin crassus.] Furz, or whin, a thick prickly shrub, of the genus Ulex, bearing yellow flowers in winter.
GORSS, n. gors. [L. crassus.] Furz, or whin, a thick prickly shrub, of the genus Ulex, bearing yellow flowers in winter.
GO'RY, adjective [from gore.] Covered with congealed or clotted blood; as gory locks.
1. Bloody; murderous.
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.
GOS'LING, noun A young goose; a goose not full grown.
1. A catkin on nut trees and pines.
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.
GOS'PELIZE, verb transitive To form according to the gospel.
1. To instruct in the gospel; to evangelize; as, to gospelize the savages.
GOS'PELIZED, participle passive Instructed in the christian religion.
GOS'PELIZING, participle present tense Evangelizing; instructing in the christian religion.
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, noun A kind of low furz or gorse.
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.
GOS'SAMERY, adjective Like gossamer; flimsy; unsubstantial.
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.
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.
GOS'SIPRED, noun Compaternity; spiritual affinity, for which a juror might be challenged. [Not used.]
GOSSOON', noun A boy; a servant. [Not in use.]
GOS'TING, noun An herb.
GOT, pret of get. The old preterit gat, pronounced got is nearly obsolete.
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.
GO'THAMIST, noun A person deficient in wisdom, so called from Gotham in Nottinghamshire, noted for some pleasant blunders.
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.
GOTH'ICISM, noun Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.
1. A Gothic idiom.
2. Conformity to the Gothic style of building.
GOTH'ICIZE, verb transitive To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism.
GOT AND GOTTEN participle passive of get.
GOUD, noun Woad. [Not used.]
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.
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, 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.
GOURDINESS, noun A swelling on a horse's leg after a journey.
GOURDY, adjective Swelled in the legs.
GOURMAND. [See Gormand.]
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.
GOUT'INESS, noun The state of being subject to the gout; gouty affections.
GOUT'SWELLED, adjective Swelled with the gout.
GOUT'WORT, noun A plant, the Aegopodium.
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.]
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.
GOV'ERNABLE, adjective That may be governerned, or subjected to authority; controllable; manageable; obedient; submissive to law or rule.
GOV'ERNANCE, noun Government; exercise of authority; direction; control; management, either of a public officer, or of a private guardian or tutor.
GOV'ERNANT, noun A lady who has the care and management of young females; a governess. [The latter is more generally used.]
GOV'ERNED, participle passive Directed; regulated by authority; controlled; managed; influenced; restrained.
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.
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.
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.
GOVERNMENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to government; made by government.
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.
GOV'ERNORSHIP, noun The office of a governor.
GOW'AN, noun A plant, a species of Bellis or daisy.
GOWK, noun [See Gawk.]
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.
GOWN'ED, adjective Dressed in a gown.
GOWN'MAN, noun One whose professional habit is a gown.
The gownman learn'ed.
1. One devoted to the arts of peace.