gobbet ily; of Celtic origin: see gob2. Cf. jobbet, a dial. assibilated form of gobbet.] 1. A mouthful; a morsel; a lump; a part; a fragment; a piece. [Obsolete or archaic.] He seide he hadde a gobet of the seyl Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 696. And alle eten and weren fulfild, and thei token the relifes of broken gobitis twelve cofyns ful. Wyclif, Mat. xiv. 20. May it burst his pericranium, as the gobbets of fat and turpentine (a nasty thought of the seer) did that old dragon in the Apocrypha. Lamb, To Coleridge. 2. A block of stone. Imp. Dict. gobbett (gob'et), v. t. [< gobbet, n.] 1. To swallow in large masses or mouthfuls; gobble. [Vulgar.] Down comes a kite powdering upon them, and gobbets up both together. Sir R. L'Estrange. His fader was islawe 2. To gut (fish). Jul. Berners. (Halliwell.) gobbetlyt (gob'et-li), adv. [< ME. gobetliche; gobbet + -ly2.] In gobbets or lumps. Huloet. and ithrowe out gobetliche. Trevisa, tr. of Higden's Polychronicon, iv. 103. gobbetmealt, adv. [< ME. gobetmele; ‹ gobbet +-meal.] Piecemeal. He comaundide the tunge of vnpitous Nychanore kitt off, for to be gouen to briddis gobetmele. Wyclif, 2 Mac. xv. 33 (Oxf.). him gobbet meale therein. 2560 II. a. Pertaining to the French national factory called the Gobelins, or resembling what is done there.- Gobelin stitch, in embroidery, a short stitch used in very fine work and requiring great care, as all the stitches must be of the same length and height. It is intended to resemble the stitch of tapestry, and is sometimes called tapestry-stitch.-Gobelin tapestry. (a) Tapestry made at the Gobelins in Paris. See tapestry. (b) A kind of fancy work made in imitation of such tapestry. It is worked from the back with silk or Berlin wool. gobett, n. A Middle English form of gobbet. go-between (gō'be-twen"), n. 1. One who passes from one to another of different persons or parties as an agent or assistant in negotiation or intrigue; one who serves another or others as an intermediary. I shall be with her (I may tell you), by her own appointment; even as you came in to me, her assistant, or go-between, parted from me. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. She had a maid who was at work near her that was a slattern, because her mistress was careless: which I take to be another argument of your security in her; for the go-betweens of women of intrigue are rewarded too well to be dirty. Steele, Spectator, No. 502. 2. A servant who assists in the duties of two positions. See the extract. [Eng.] A girl seeks a situation as a go-between. I am told it is both housemaid and cook. N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 37. a not uncommon term for a servant who assists, equally, gob-fire (gob'fir), n. In coal-mining, a spontaneous combustion of the gob or refuse. He slew Hamon neare to a hauen of the sea, and threw Gobiesocidæ (gō bi-e-sos'i-de), n. pl. [NL., < Gobiesox (-esoc-) + -ida.] A family of teleocephalous fishes, typified by the genus Gobiesox, alone representing the superfamily Gobiesociformes or the suborder Xenopterygii. They have spineless fins and a complicated suctorial apparatus, developed chiefly from the skin of the pectoral region and only partly formed by the ventral fins. They are chiefly small fishes of oblong or elongated conical figure, have no scales, a depressed head, one posterior dorsal fin, with an anal op posite it, and pectorals extended around the front of the sucking-disk. Stow, Chron., The Romaynes, an. 21. gobbing, gobbin (gob'ing, -in), n. [Verbal n. of gobs, v.] In coal-mining, the refuse thrown back into the excavations remaining after the removal of the coal. Gobbin, or gobb-stuff, is stones or rubbish taken away The time too precious now to waste, Swift, Lady's Journal. 2. To seize upon with greed; appropriate graspingly; capture: often with up or down. [Slang, U.S.] Nearly four hundred prisoners were gobbled up after the fight, and any quantity of ammunition and provisions. Chicago Evening Post, July, 1861. I happen to know-how I obtained my knowledge isn't important that the moment Mr. Pringle should propose to my daughter she would gobble him down. H. James, Jr., Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 344. =Syn. 1. To devour, etc. (see eat); bolt, gulp. gobble2 (gob'l), v. i.; pret. and pp. gobbled, ppr. gobbling. [Approximately imitative, the form being suggested by gobble1.] To make the loud noise in the throat peculiar to the turkey-cock. Fat Turkeys gobling at the Door. Prior, The Ladle. gobble2 (gob'l), n. [< gobble2, v.] The loud rattling noise in the throat made by the turkey cock: sometimes used of the dissimilar vocal sounds of other fowls. Flocks of ducks and geese. . . set up a discordant gobble. Mrs. Gore. The turkeys added their best gobbles in happy proclamation of the warm time coming. The Century, XXXVI. 148. gobble-cock (gob ́l-kok), n. Same as gobbler2. gobbler1 (gob'ler), n. [< gobble1 + -er1.] One who swallows in haste; a greedy eater; a gormandizer. gobbler2 (gob ́lėr), n. [< gobble2 + -er1.] A turkey-cock. Also called gobble-cock and turkey-gobbler. I had gone some fifty yards up the fork, when I saw one of the gobblers perched, with his bearded breast to me, upon a horizontal limb of an oak, within easy shot. Ruxton, Adventures in the West, p. 347. gobelin (gō-be-laǹ′), n. and a. [So called from the Gobelins, a national establishment in Paris for decorative manufactures, especially celebrated for its tapestry and upholstery, founded as a dye-house in 1450 by a family named Gobelin, and bought by the government about 1662.] I. n. A variety of damask used for upholstery, made of silk and wool or silk and cotton. gobiesociform (gō bi-e-sos'i-fôrm), a. [Gobiesox + L. forma, form.] Having the characters of the Gobiesocide or the Gobiesociformes. Gobiesociformes (gō"bi-e-sos-i-fôr'mēz), n. pl. [NL., < Gobiesox (-esoc-) + forma, shape.] In Günther's system of classification, the fourteenth division of Acanthopterygii. Gobiesox (go-bi’e-soks), n. [NL., < L. gobio, gobius, a gudgeon, a goby, + esox, a kind of pike.] The typical genus of Gobiesocida: so Gobiesox reticulatus. called from combining the extended snout of a pike and the ventral sucker of a goby. The commonest American species is G. reticulatus of California, about 6 inches long. gobiid (gō'bi-id), a. and n. I. a. Pertaining to the family Gobiida. II. n. One of the gobies or Gobiida. On the Californian coast is a gobiid (Gillichthys mirabi lis) remarkable for the great extension backward of the jaws and [for its] singular habits. Stand. Nat. Hist., III. 257. Gobiidæ (go-bi'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Gobius + ide.] A family of acanthopterygian fishes, containing most of the Gobioidea; the gobies proper, or gobiids. It was formerly equivalent to that group, but is now restricted to the species with usually a stout body regularly tapering from head to tail, sometimes more elongated, or ovate and compressed; scales diversiform, ctenoid, cycloid, or wanting; no lateral line; generally two spinigerous dorsal fins, sometimes united in one; thoracic ventral fins, mostly 1-spined and 5-rayed, usually contributing to form a ventral sucker; and an anal papilla. The genera are numerous and the species several hundred, mostly small or even of minute size, few reaching a length of a foot. Also Gobiadæ, Gobida, Gobioida. gobiiform (gō'bi-i-fôrm), a. [< NL. gobiformis, Gobius + L. forma, form.] Having the characters of the Gobiida; pertaining to the Gobiiformes; gobioid. Gobiiformes (gō'bi-i-fôr'mēz), n. pl. [NL., pl. of gobiiformis: see gobiiform.] In Günther's system of classification, the ninth division of Acanthopterygii. Gobiina (go-bi-i'nä), n. pl. [NL., < Gobius + -ina.] In Günther's system of classification, a group of Gobiida, including species with the ventrals united or close together and two dorsal fins. It embraces the subfamilies Gobinæ, Eleotridinæ, and Periophthalmina of other authors. Gobio (gō'bi-o), n. [NL. (Cuvier, 1817), <L. gobio, a gudgeon: see Gobius and gudgeon1.] A Cuvierian genus of cyprinoid fishes, of the family goblin Cyprinidae; the gudgeons proper, related to the carp, bream, bleak, roach, tench, etc., but not Gobio fluviatilis. to the gobies (Gobiida). The common European gudgeon is Gobio fluviatilis. gobioid (go'bi-oid), a. and n. I. a. Pertaining to or having the characters of the Gobioidea; like a goby, in a broad sense. II. n. One of the Gobioidea; a goby or gobylike fish. Gobioidæ (gō-bi-ō'i-dē), n. pl. Same as Gobiida. Gobioidea (gō-bi-oi ́dē-ä), n. pl. [NL., <Gobius +-oidea.] A superfamily of fishes, containing the gobies and goby-like fishes. It includes the families Gobiida, Callionymidæ, PlatypteriGobioides (gō-bi-oi'dez), n. [NL., Gobius + dæ, and Oxydercidæ. -oides.] 1. A genus of fishes. Lacépède, 1800. -2. pl. In Cuvier's system of classification, terized by the length and tenuity of the dorsal the twelfth family of Acanthopterygii, charactinal canal without cæca, and the absence of a spines, the presence of a large siphonal intes swim-bladder. Gobius (go bi-us), n. [NL. (Linnæus), < L. gobius, also cobius and gobio(n-) (> ult. E. gudgeon1, q. v.), the gudgeon, Gr. kwẞtóc, a kind of fish, gudgeon, tench.] A Linnean genus of fishes, typical or representative, in its modern acceptation, of the Gobiida or Gobioidea. G. soporator is found from tropical seas to North Carolina. = goblet (gob'let), n. [Early mod. E. also goblette (= MLG. gobelet, kobelet); < OF. gobelet, goblet, a goblet, bowl, or wide-mouthed cup, F. gobelet, dial. goubelet (OF. also gobelot, dial. goubelot) (= Pr. gobelet Sp. cubilete), a goblet, dim. of OF. gobel, gobeau, goubeau, m., gobelle, f., a goblet, ML. cupellus, a cup (cf. cupella, f., a vat), dim. of cupa, a tub, cask, vat: see cup, coop.] A crater-shaped drinking-vessel of glass or other material, without a handle. (a) A large drinking-vessel for wine, especially one used in festivities or on ceremonious occasions. Ye that drinke wyne out of goblettes. Bible of 1551, Amos vi. 6. We love not loaded boards, and goblets crown'd. Denham. No purple flowers, no garlands green, Conceal the goblet's shade or sheen. Longfellow, Goblet of Life. (b) In the United States, a glass with a foot and stem, as distinguished from a tumbler. goblet-cell (gobʻlet-sel), n. An epithelial cell of crateriform shape. See cell. [< goblet-ity; gobletity (gob-let'i-ti), n. formed in imitation of Gr. Kvaбórns, the abstract nature of a cup or goblet (< Kiaboç, cup, goblet), used by Plato in the passage referred to in the following quotation. So tableity or mensality, in the same quotation, translates Plato's Gr. term paεórn, < тpáñεša, a table.] The quiddity or abstract nature of a goblet. See etymology and quotation. Plato was talking about ideas, and spoke of mensality [= tableity] and gobletity. "I can see a table and a goblet," said the cynic, "but I can see no such things as tableity and gobletity." "Quite so," answered Plato, "because you have the eyes to see a goblet and a table with, but you have not the brains to understand tableity and O. W. Holmes, Emerson, p. 391. gobletity." goblet-shaped (gob'let-shapt), a. Crateriform. goblin (gobʻlin), n. [< ME. gobelyn, < OF. gobelin, a goblin, hobgoblin, Robin Goodfellow (cf. ML. gobelinus, a goblin, Bret. gobilin, will-o'the-wisp), ML. cobalus, covalus, a goblin, demon, Gr. Kóẞaos, an impudent rogue, an arrant knave, pl. Kóẞazot, a set of mischievous goblins, invoked by rogues. The W. coblyn, a goblin, is an accom. of the E. word to W. coblyn, a thumper, pecker (coblyn y coed, woodpecker), cobio, thump. The G. kobold, a spirit of the earth, is prob. of different origin: see kobold, cobalt.] An imaginary being supposed to haunt dark or remote places, and to take an occasional capricious interest in human affairs; an elf; a sprite; an earthly spirit; particularly, a surly elf; a malicious fairy; a spirit of the woods; a demon of the earth; a gnome; a kobold. goblin In manye partes of the sayd land of Poytow haue ben shewed vnto many oon right famylerly many manyeres of things the which som called Gobelyns, the other Fay rees, and the other bonnes dames or good ladyes. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), Pref., p. xiii. Go, charge my goblins that they grind their joints Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd, Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable. =Syn. Elf, Gnome, etc. See fairy. gob-line (gob'lin), n. Naut., a martingale backrope. Also written gaub-line. goblinize (gob'lin-iz), v. t.; pret. and pp. goblinized, ppr. goblinizing. [< goblin + -ize.] To transform into a goblin. [Rare.] Once goblinized, Herodias joins them [demons], doomed still to bear about the Baptist's head. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 118. goblinry (gob'lin-ri), n. [< goblin + -ry.] The arts or practices of goblins. Imp. Dict. gobly-gossit (gobʻli-gos ̋it), n. The night-heron or qua-bird, Nyctiardea grisea nævia. [Local, New Eng.] gobonated (gobʻō-nā-ted), a. [As goboné + -atel+-ed2.] In her., same as componé. The bordure gobonated or componé is now a mark of bastardy in Britain, by our late practices. A Bordure Gobonated Argent and Gules. Nisbet, Heraldry (ed. 1816), II. 25. goboné, gobony (gob-ō-nā', go-bō'ni), a. [Appar. corruptions of componé, q. v.] In her., same as componé. gob-road (gobʻrōd), n. In coal-mining, a passage or gangway in a mine carried through the gob or goaves.-Gob-road system, a form of the long. wall system of coal-working, in which all the main and branch roadways are made and maintained in the goaves, or in that part of the mine from which the coal has been worked out. [Eng.] gobstick (gob'stik), n. 1. In angling, an instrument for removing a hook from a fish's mouth or throat; a disgorger; a gulleting-stick; a poke-stick.-2. A spoon. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.]-3. A silver fork or spoon. [Thieves' cant.] goby (gō'bi), n.; pl. gobies (-biz). [< L. gobio, gobius, a gudgeon: see Gobius.] A fish of the genus Gobius or family Gobiida; a gobiid. Certain gobies of the genera Aphya and Crystallogobius have been shown by Professor Collett to be annual fishes. Smithsonian Report, 1883, p. 726. go-by (gōʻbi), n. [< go by, verbal phrase.] 1†. An evasion; an escape by artifice.-2. A passing without notice; an intentional disregard, evasion, or avoidance: in the phrase to give or get the go-by. Becky gave Mrs. Washington White the go by in the ring. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xlviii. They cannot afford to give the go-by to their public pledges, and offer new pledges to be in turn repudiated hereafter. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 124. 3. The act of passing by or ahead in motion. The go-bye, or when a greyhound starts a clear length behind his opponent, passes him in the straight run, and gets a clear length in front. Encyc. Brit., VI. 515. 4t. The second turn made by a hare in crossing. Halliwell. go-by-groundt, n. and a. I. n. A diminutive person. Nares. Indeede sir I had need have two eyes, to discerne so pettie a goe-by-ground as you. ernours. Copley, Wits, Fits, and Fancies (1614). II. a. Petty; insignificant. Such mushroome magistrates, such go-by-ground GovBp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 521. go-cart (gō'kärt), n. 1. A small framework with casters or rollers, and without a bottom, in which children learn to walk without danger of falling. Another taught their Babes to talk, Ere they cou'd yet in Goe-carts walk. Prior, Alma, ii. My grandmother appears as if she stood in a large drum, whereas the ladies now walk as if they were in a go-cart. Steele, Spectator, No. 109. 2t. A cabriolet formerly in use in England. Old Chariot bodies were cut down, and numberless transformations made, and the truth is, they all more or less bear a strong resemblance to the vehicles called GoCarts, which ply for hire, as a sort of two-wheeled stages, in the neighborhood of Lambeth, the deep-cranked axle being the principal distinction. Adams, English Pleasure Carriages, p. 278. The Sultan Gilgal, being violently afflicted with a spasmus, came six hundred leagues to meet me in a go-cart. Character of a Quack Doctor, quoted in Strutt's [Sports and Pastimes, p. 317. 3. A light form of village-cart.-4. A small vehicle such as a child can draw. 2561 I used to draw her to school on a go-cart nearly half of a century ago. Religious Herald, March 24, 1887. 5. A hand-cart. Bartlett. [U.S.] Goclenian (gō-klē'ni-an), a. [ Goclenius (see def.) +-an.] Pertaining to the German logician Rudolf Goclenius (1547-1628).-Goclenian sorites, a chain-syllogism in which the premises are arranged as in the following example: An animal is a substance; a quadruped is an animal; a horse is a quadruped; Bucephalus is a horse; therefore Bucephalus is a substance. = = = god1 (god or gôd), n. [< ME. god, godd, pl. godes, goddes, AS. god, m. (pl. godas), also god, n. (pl. godu), rarely *goda (in gen. pl. godena), m., O'S. OFries. D. god : = MLG. got, LG. god OHG. got, cot, MHG. got, G. gott: Icel. godh, neut. pl., later gudh, m. (pl. gudhir), = Sw. Dan. gud Goth. guth, m., gutha, guda, neut. pl., a god, God: a word common to all Teut. tongues, in which it has numerous derivatives, but not identified outside of Teut. It was orig. neuter, and generally in the plural, being applied to the heathen deities, and elevated to the Christian sense upon the conversion of the Teutonic peoples. Popular etymology has long derived God from good; but a comparison of the forms (see good) shows this to be an error. Moreover, the notion of goodness is not conspicuous in the heathen conception of deity, and in good itself the ethical sense is comparatively late.] 1. [cap.] The one Supreme or Absolute Being. The conceptions of God are various, differing widely in different systems of religion and metaphysics; but they fall, in general, under two heads: theism, which is most fully developed in Christianity, and in which God is regarded as a personal moral being, distinct from the universe, of which he is the author and ruler; and pantheism, in which God is conceived as not personal, and as identified with the universe. See theism, pantheism. [In this sense used only in the singular.] Ther-fore is seide a proverbe, that god will haue saued, no man may distroye. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 524. God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John i. 5. God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and Shorter Catechism, ans. to qu. 4. truth. His [Spinoza's] philosophy, therefore, begins with the idea of God as the substance of all things, as the infinite unity, which is necessarily presupposed in all consciousness of finitude and difference. E. Caird, Philos. of Kant, p. 47. By God we understand the one absolutely and infinitely perfect spirit who is the creator of all. Cath. Dict., p. 377. 2. In myth., a being regarded as superior to nature, or as presiding over some department of it; a superior intelligence supposed to possess supernatural or divine powers and attributes, either general or special, and considered worthy of worship or other religious service; a divinity; a deity: as, the gods of the heathen; the god of the thunder or of riches; the sungod; a fish-god. Suche fayned goddys noght is to cal on, Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), Int., 1. 57. Who are most sad, being cruel. Swinburne, Félise, 3. Figuratively, a person or thing that is made an object of extreme devotion or sought after above all other things; any object of supreme interest or admiration. The old man's god, his gold, has won upon her. Fletcher and Shirley, Night-Walker, i. 1. Sir Aylmer Aylmer, that almighty man, The county God. Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 4. An image of a deity; an idol. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. Ex. xxxiv. 17. He buys for Topham drawings and designs; For Pembroke, statues, dirty gods, and coins. Pope, Moral Essays, iv. 8. 5. One of the audience in the upper gallery of a theater: so called from the elevated position, in allusion to the gods of Olympus. [Slang.] Hear him yell like an Indian, or cat-call like a gallery god. Christian Union, July 27, 1887. Act of God, in law. See act.-Church of God. See church.-Father in God. See father. Finger of God. See finger. Friends of God. See friend.—God-a-mercyt. (a) God have mercy. Gru. Take thou the bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me. Hor. God-a-mercy, Grumio! then shall he have no odds. Shak., T. of the S., iv. 3. godchild (b) God be thanked; thank God. Pol. How does my good lord Hamlet? Ham. Well, god-'a-mercy. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. God bless the mark. See mark.- God forbid, an exclamation or answer of earnest deprecation or denial. In " the New Testament it is used to render a Greek phrase un YÉVOLTO, literally "be it not," translated in the margin of the revised version "be it not so (Latin absit).-God forbid elset. See else.- God ild yout, God 'ield yout. See God yield you.-God payst, God to pay, God will pay a canting expression much used at one time by disbanded soldiers and others who thought they had a right to live upon the public charity. Nares. Go swaggering up and down, from house to house, By trusting two of the younger Of their half-starved number; B. Jonson, Masque of Owls. God's acre. See God's-acre.-God's advocate. See advocate. God's boardt, the Lord's table; the communion table or altar. Then shall the Priest, turning him to God's board, kneel down. Book of Common Prayer (1549). God's day. (a) Sunday: more commonly called the Lord's day. (b) Easter Sunday. In a manuscript homily entitled "Exortacio in die Pasche," written about the reign of Edward IV., we are told that the Paschal Day "in some place is callede Esterne Day, and in sum place Goddes Day." Hampson, Medii Ævi Kalendarium, I. 186. (c) Corpus Christi day. God's day, the great June corpus Domini. Browning. God's footstool. See footstool.- God's forbodet. See forbod.-God's goodt, a blessing on a meal. Nares. Hee that for every qualme will take a receipt, and cannot make two meales, unlesse Galen bee his Gods good, shall bee sure to make the physition rich and himselfe a begger. Lyly, Euphues and his England. God's kichelt, a cake given to godchildren at their asking blessing. Dunton, Ladies' Dictionary, 1694.- God's markt, a mark placed on houses as a sign of the presence of the plague. Nares. Some with gods markes or tokens doe espie, Those marks or tokens shew them they must die. John Taylor, Works (1630). God's Sundayt, Easter Sunday. Easter Day is called God's Sunday in an ancient homily In Die Pasce: "Goode mene and wommen as ye Knowen alle welle this is callede in some place Astur Day, & in sum place Pasche Day, & in summe place Godeis Sunday." Hampson, Medii Ævi Kalendarium, II. 184 (glossary). God's truce. See truce of God, under truce.- God's truth, absolute truth; a positive fact: used in strong asseveration of the truth of an utterance. - God toforet, or God beforet, God going before, assisting, guiding, or favoring. Nares. Else, God tofore, myself may live to see His tired corse lie toiling in his blood. Kyd, tr. of Garnier's Cornelia, iii. God yield yout (also variously God ild, God 'ield, God dild you, Middle English God yelde you, etc.), God give you some recompense or advantage; God reward you, or be good to you. "I have," quod he, "had a despit this day, Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 477. Bp. Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle. Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the gods yield you for 't. Shak., A. and C., iv. 2. Household gods. (a) In Rom, myth., gods presiding over the house or family; Lares and Penates. Hence -(b) Objects endeared to one from being associated with home. Bearing a nation, with all its household gods, into exile. Longfellow, Evangeline, ii. 1. House of God. See house.-Mother of God. See mother.-Name of God. See name. god1t (god), v. t. [< god1, n.] To deify. Some 'gainst their king attempting open treason, Lov'd me above the measure of a father; Shak., Cor., v. 3. Not that the saints are made partakers of the essence of God, and so are godded with God, and christed with Christ. Edwards, Works, III. 69. god2t, a. and n. A Middle English form of good. Godartia (go-där'ti-ä), n. [NL. (Lucas, 1842), named after M. Godart, a French entomologist.] 1. A genus of Madagascan butterflies, of one species, G. madagascariensis.-2. A genus of lucanid beetles: same as Sclerognathus. Chenu, 1860. godbote (god'bot), n. [Used historically, referring to the AS. period, repr. AS. godbōt, < god, God, + bōt, compensation, boot: see bootl and bote1.] In Anglo-Saxon law, a fine paid to the church. godchild (god'child), n.; pl. godchildren (-chil”dren). [ ME. godchild (cf. AS. godbearn, a godchild); < God + child: in ref. to the spiritual relation assumed to exist between them.] In the liturgical churches, one for whom a person godchild becomes sponsor (godfather or godmother) at baptism; a godson or goddaughter. Goddam (god'dam'), n. [< F. goddam, dial. godeme, OF. godon, goudon, an Englishman, used as a term of contempt or reproach (hence also goddon, a glutton, a swiller), < E. God damn, the characteristic national oath of Englishmen.] An Englishman: a term of reproach applied by the French. Davies. We will return by way of the bridge, and bring back with us a prisoner, a Goddam. Quoted in Lord Stanhope's Essays, p. 30. goddard+, goddart+ (god'ärd, -ärt), n. [< OF. godart, with suffix -art (= É. -ard), equiv. to godet, a tankard: see goddet.] A tankard; a drinking-bowl: same as goddet. 2562 top of the torpedo, causes a terrific explosion at the botSt. Nicholas, XIV. 48. tom of the well. Go-devil (def. 1). Lucrece entered, attended by a maiden of honour with a covered goddard of gold. 2. A movable-jointed contractible apparatus, with interior springs secured to iron plates in sections, overlapping something like an elongated cartridge in shape and about three feet long, introduced into a pipe-line for the purpose of freeing it from obstructions. The motion of the oil carries it along, and its flexibility allows of its turning sharp angles and going through narrow spaces. 3. A rough sled used for holding one end of a Also R. Wilmot, Tancred and Gismunda, ii., Int. log in hauling it out of the woods, etc., the other end dragging on the snow or ice. called tieboy. [Northwestern U. S.] [< ME. godfader, godfather (god fä Tнer), n. AS. godfæder (=OS. godfader = MD. godvader = Icel. gudhfadhir = Sw. Dan. gudfader), < god, God, + fæder, father.] 1. In the liturgical churches, a man who at the baptism of a child makes a profession of the Christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a male sponsor. See sponsor. A goddard, or an anniversary spice-bowl, Drank off by th' gossips. Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, iv. 5. goddaughter (god'dâ'ter), n. [<ME. goddoghter, goddowter, AS. goddõhtor (= Icel. gudhdöt tir Sw. guddotter Dan. guddatter), < god, God, + dōhtor, daughter.] A female godchild. = = For with my name baptised was she, And such as it is devised I sure, My goddoughter I may calle hir in vre. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), l. 3722. How doth your fairest daughter, and mine, my Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. god-daughter Ellen? god-dent, n. A variant of good-den. goddess (god'es), n. [< ME. goddesse, goddes; god-ess, fem. term. (cf. F. déesse). The AS. word is gyden (= D. godin = OHG. gutin, gutinna, MHG. gütinne, gotinne, götinne, G. göttin Dan. gudinde Św. gudinna), ‹ god + fem. term. -en.] A female god or deity. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine, I will obey thee! Shak., Pericles, v. 2. When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceAddison. ful stature and superior beauty. goddesshood (god'es-húd), n. The state or dignity of a goddess. = Should not my beloved, for her own sake, descend by degrees from goddess-hood into humanity? Richardson, Clarissa Harlowe, IV. 360. goddess-ship (god'es-ship), n. [< goddess + -ship.] Rank, state, condition, or attribute of a goddess. Appear'dst thou not to Paris in this guise? goddett, n. [Also godet; < OF. godet, goudet, For one's a little Goddikin, No bigger than a skittle-pin. Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque, p. 281. goddizet, v. t. [< god1 + -ize.] To deify. Proserpin her offence, Growen, through misguides, veniall perhaps, Warner, Albion's England, ix. 44. [ML. also godendus, godendat (go-den'dä), n. See godendag. godardus, godandardus.] godendagt, n. [OF., also godendac, godandac, godandart, goudendart (ML. godenda, godendus, etc.), OFlem. goedendag, lit. good-day: so called appar. in humorous allusion to its effective use in 'saluting' or bidding farewell to the person attacked: see good-day.] A weapon used in the middle ages by foot-soldiers and light-armed men. The Flemings are mentioned as using them in the fourteenth century, under the name of goedendag. It seems to have been a heavy halberd or partizan; it was perhaps in some cases a pike having a point only and no other blade. Also called good-day. Same as godendag. godendartt, ". See goddet. godett, n. Godetia (go-de'shiä), n. [NL., named after M. Godet, a Swiss botanist.] An onagraceous genus of plants, of nearly 20 species, natives of western America, sometimes united with Enothera. The species are annuals with usually showy lilacpurple or rose-colored flowers. Several are found in cultivation. 1. A device for explodgo-devil (gō'dev#1), n. ing a dynamite cartridge in an oil-well. See the extract. [U. S.] A queer-looking, pointed piece of iron, called the godevil, is dropped down the well, and, striking a cap on the = Sin he will not leue the boke he began, Hys god fader, to whom God gif pardon! By hym of it gret laud and presiing wan. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6309. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized. [< ME. godles (= D. god- +-les.] 1. Having or acknowledging no God; He deceaueth himselfe, and maketh a mocke of himselfe Dryden. For faults not his, for guilt and crimes Of a life without sun. The state or The sinner gives himself over to a wild and loose proBp. Hall, Remains, p. 87. godlike (godʻlik), a. [< god1 + like. Cf. godly, a.] Like God or a god in any respect; of divine quality; partaking of or exercising divine attributes; supremely excellent. Sure, he that made us . . . gave us not Shak., Hamlet, iv. 4. The most godlike impersonality men know is the sun. two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for every Female, T. Winthrop, Canoe and Saddle, v. two Godmothers and one Godfather. The state of beBook of Common Prayer. godlikeness (god′lik-nes), n. 24. A juryman, as jocularly held to be godfathering godlike. to the prisoner. godlily (god'li-li), adv. In a godly manner; piously; righteously. In christening, thou shalt have two godfathers: Enoch as a brave God-fearing man Pray'd for a blessing on his wife and babes, I have rarely seen anything quite so bleak and God-forsaken as this village. A few low black huts, in a desert of snow-that was all. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 117. 2. Cast out or abandoned by God; supremely wicked; utterly reprobate: as, a God-forsaken community or band of pirates. godful (god'fül), a. [< god1 + -ful.] 1†. Inspired. Davies." Homer, Musæus, Ouid, Maro, more Of those god-full prophets longe before, 2. Godly. [Rare.] Herrick. godhead (god'hed), n. [< ME. godhed, godhede (also godhod,> E. godhood) (= D. godheid OHG. gotheit, MHG. goteheit, G. gottheit); god1 +-head.] 1. The state of being God or a god; divine nature; deity; divinity. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the even his eternal power and world are clearly seen, . . . Rom. i. 20. Godhead. That was the way to make his [Cupid's] godhead wax. Shak., L. L. L., v. 2. 2. [cap.] The essential being or nature of God; the Supreme Being in all his attributes and relations. We ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto Acts xvii. 29. gold, or silver, or stone. 3. Requiring of him (Calvin] that by his grave councill and godly exhortation he would animate her majesty constantly to follow that which godlily she had begun. Knox, Hist. Reformation, an. 1558. godliness (god'li-nes), n. [< godly + -ness.] The character or quality of being godly; conformity to the will and law of God; piety. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. Godliness being the chiefest top and well-spring of all true virtues, even as God is of all good things. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. § 2. Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou [Milton] travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness. Wordsworth, London, 1802. =Syn. Saintliness, Holiness, etc. See religion. godling (god'ling), n. [< god1 + -ling1.] A little or inferior deity. Shew thy Self gratious, affable and meek; And be not (proud) to those gay godlings like, But once a year from their gilt Boxes tane, To impetrate the Heav'ns long wisht-for raine. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. The puny godlings of inferior race, Whose humble statues are content with brass. Dryden, tr. of Juvenal. godly (god'li), a. [Not in ME. or AS. (AS. gödlic OFries. OS. gōdlic, goodly: see goodly); D. goddelijk OHG. gotelih, kotelih, godlik Dan. gudelig; Sw. gudlig gotlih, MHG. gotelich, götelich, götlich, G. göttlich Icel. gudhligr as god1 + -ly1.] 1. Pious; reverencing God and his character and laws; controlled by religious motives. =Syn. 1 and 2. Holy, devout, saintly. See religion. = OHG. *gotelicho, MHG. goteliche, gotliche; as god1 + -ly2.] In a godly manner; piously. A deity; a god or goddess. Adoring first the genius of the place, All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer per2 Tim. iii. 12. The nymphs and native godheads yet unknown. secution. Dryden, Æneid. By the means of this man and some few others in that [< ME. godhod: < god University many became godly learned. Strype, Memorials, Hen. VIII., an. 1540. godhood (godʼhúd), n. +-hood. Cf. godhead.] Divine character or godlyheadt, n. [< godly + -head.] Goodness. One who formugod-maker (godʼmā ̋ker), n. quality; godlike nature; godship. lates or originates an image or conception of [Rare.] God, or of a god or gods. Woodst thou have godhood? god-maker No man finds any difficulty in being his own God-maker. Thou art no gudfader ne godmodere! = Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 274. D'Urfey, Colin's Walk, iv. We have frolick rounds, Witts Recreations (1654). (Nares.) 2. A cutting in the bank of a stream for enabling animals to cross or to get to the water. [Western U. S.] godown (go-doun'), n. [ Malay godong, a warehouse.] In India, China, Japan, etc., a warehouse or storehouse. When the cotton has been picked, it is thrown upon the floor of a room in some godown and thrashed. A. G. F. Eliot James, Indian Industries, p. 71. These buildings, which are known to the foreigners as godowns, have one or two small windows and one door, closed by thick and ponderous shutters. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVIII. 645. godpheret, n. [God+phere, a bad spelling of goetic reflected in Casaubon's translation (1611) "Dei His name was cleped Dionas, and many tymes Diane com to speke with hym, that was the goddesse, and was with hym many dayes, for he was hir godsone. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 307. Tell a' your neebours whan ye gae hame, That Earl Richard's your gude-son. Pheasant and god-wit here in London, haunting Earl Richard (Child's Ballads, III. 399). The Globes and Mermaids! wedging in with lords What, did my father's godson seek your life? Still at the table. B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, iii. 3. He whom my father nam'd? your Edgar? Cinereous godwit. Same as greenshank.-Godwit day, Shak., Lear, ii. 1. May 12th, when the godwits begin to move south, on BreyGod-speed (god'sped'), n. [< God speed you, don water, England.-New York godwit, a book-name of the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe, Macrorhamphus i. e.,I wish that God may speed or prosper griseus. Swainson and Richardson, 1831. you,' mixed with good speed, i. e., 'I wish that goet. An obsolete form of go or gone. you may have good speed or success.' See goelt, a. [E. dial. (East.), a form of yellow, good speed, under good.] A wish of success or AS. geolu Icel. gulr Sw. Dan. gul: see yelprosperity; specifically, as a wish in behalf of low.] Yellow. another, a prosperous journey. Receive him not into your house, neither bid him God Ile slit her nose by this light, and she were ten ladies; To him your summons comes too late godspelt, godspellert, etc. = godroon (go-drön'), n. [< F. godron, a plait, God's-acre (godz'a kér), n. [Not an old or native E. term, but recently imitated from G. Gottesacker (=D. godsakker), i. e., 'God's field': see god1 and acre.] A burial-ground. A... green terrace or platform on which the church stands, and which in ancient times was the churchyard, or, as the Germans more devoutly say, God's-acre. Longfellow, Hyperion, ii. 9. It was an old Indian taste that nature should do its part toward the adornment of the God's-acre. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 449. godsend (god'send), n. [Godsend.] 1. Something regarded as sent by God; an unlooked-for acquisition or piece of good fortune. It was more like some fairy present, a godsend, as our familiarly pious ancestors termed a benefit received where the benefactor was unknown. Lamb, Valentine's Day. In despite of Wolsey's financial ability, . . . the policy of the whole reign in this respect was a hand-to-mouth policy, assisted by occasional godsends in the shape of forfeitures and benevolences. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 252. 2. A sending by God. [Rare.] As thou didst call on death, death shalt have- Halliwell. The arrha was called "weinkauf," because it was usu- J. L. Laughlin, Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law, p. 189, note. "Give me the gold, good John o' the Scales, Heir of Linne (Child's Ballads, VIII. 62). All manner virtuous duties that each man in reason and conscience to Godward oweth. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 4. godwin (god'win), n. Same as godwit. [Prov. god's-eye (godz'i), n. [<ME. godeseie: see god Godwinia (god-win'i-a), n. [NL., from the propEng.] and eyel.] 1. The herb clary. 2. The plant speedwell, Veronica Chamaedrys. wine, a friend).] A genus of plants, natural er name Godwin (AS. Godwine, god, God, + [Prov. Eng. in both senses.] order Aracea: same as Dracontium, 1. godship (god'ship), n. [< god1 +-ship.] 1. The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity.(cited, in a Latinized form goduuitta, by Turgodwit (god'wit), n. [First in early mod. E. (which is the true Deity), effectually degraded all those other pagan Gods, the sun, moon, and stars, from their godships. Cudworth, Intellectual System, p. 233. Odin and Freya maintained their godships in Gaul and Germany. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 267. 2. A titular appellative of a god. Anaxagoras, asserting one perfect mind ruling over all O'er hills and dales their godships came. hus, godeshus = = = Godshouset (godz'hous), n. [= OFries. godis- ner, 1544); appar. a native E. word, but not Marbled Godwit (Limosa fedoa). Hop-roots goent. An obsolete form of gone, past partici- And so thei eten every day in his Court, mo than 30000 Is the rough French horse brought to the dore? The Tally-ho was a tip-top goer, ten miles an hour including stoppages, and so punctual that all the road set their clocks by her. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 4. A dog with a broad, bull-dog cheek is never a good goer. The Century, XXXI. 371. 2t. A foot. A double mantle cast Athwart his shoulders, his faire goers graced With fitted shoes. Chapman. Goëra (gō'e-rä), n. [NL. (Curtis, 1854), < Gr. yoepós, mournful, distressful, yoos, mourning, wailing: see goety.] A genus of caddis-flies, of the family Sericostomatida, having the interclaval area in the fore wings suddenly dilated and denudated at the end. The sole species is G. pilosa of Europe, common in swift-running streams. goer-between (gō'ér-be-twen'), n.; pl. goers- Nor any face to quarrel with. goes (gōz). The third person singular of the A true Goethian sentence, which it is difficult to render in English. Max Müller, in Contemporary Rev., XLIX. 787. Went to Grove Hill, where we found Ritter, a most remarkable object, with a most Goethean countenance. Caroline Fox, Journal. goethite (ge'tit), n. [< Goethe (see Goethian) +-ite2.] A hydrous oxid of iron, occurring in orthorhombic crystals, also massive. It is found with other ores of iron, for example hematite or limonite, as at the Lake Superior mines. goetic (gō'e-tik), a. [< goety +-ic.] Of or pertaining to goety; dark and evil in magic. and evil necromancy. goetic The theurgic or benevolent magic, the goëtic, or dark Bulwer, Last Days of Pompeii, p. 147. goety (gō'e-ti), n. [Formerly also goetie; <OF. goetie, the black art, magic, witchcraft, < Gr. yonreía, witchcraft, jugglery, <yontevεiv, bewitch, beguile, < yóns (yonT-), a wizard, a sorcerer, an enchanter, a juggler, lit. a howler, wailer, <yoav, wail, groan, weep, yoos, wailing, mourning.] Invocation of evil spirits; black magic; sorcery, in a bad sense. the eye, look, glance), the verb being Ir. gogaim, Porphyry and some others did distinguish these two Hallywell, Melampronca (1681), p. 51. gofer (gō'fèr), n. [Also gopher (cf. gopher in other senses); F. gaufre, a waffle: see goffer, gopher.] A waffle. [Prov. Eng.] Here too I found a man selling gophers. Now, I do not know the American name for this vanishing-into-nothing sort of pastry, but I do know that there is one man in London who declares that he, and he alone in all the world, is aware of the secret of the gopher. P. Robinson, Sinners and Saints, p. 14. gofering-iron (gō'fèr-ing-i'èrn), n. [Cf. goffer ing-iron.] A waffle-iron. goff1 (gof), n. [Also guff, a fool, ME. only in adj. gofisshe (see goffish), < OF. goffe, a., dull, doltish, blockish, Sp. gofo = It. goffo, a. ward, stupid, dull, n. a blockhead, G. dial. (Bav.) goffo, a blockhead; origin obscure.] A fool; a foolish clown. [Prov. Eng.] goff2, n. Same as goaf. = goffst, n. An obsolete variant of golf. awk There are many games played with the ball that require the assistance of a club or bat, and probably the most ancient among them is the pastime now distinguished by the name of goff. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 170. goffan (gof'an), n. [Cornwall, Eng.] goffer (gof'er), v. t. [Also written gauffer; OF. gauffrer, crimp, deck with puffs, F. gaufrer, crimp, figure (cloth, velvet, etc.), < OF. goffre, also gaufre, gauffre, oldest form waufre, a wafer, a honeycomb (> E. wafer), F. gaufre, a honeycomb, waffle: see gopher, wafer, and waffle.] 1. To plait, flute, or crimp (lace, etc.). "What's the matter with your ruff?" asked Lady Betty; "Neat! . . . I'll have to "it looks very neat, I think." get it all goffered over again." In mining, same as coffin, 8. Robin did on the old mans hood, He goggled his eyes, and groped in his money-pocket. Walpole, Letters, III. 174. goggle1 (gogʻl), n. [< goggle1, v.] 1. A strained, blinking, or squinting rolling of the eye. Others will have such a divided face between a devout goggle and an inviting glance, that the unnatural mixture will make the best look to be at that time ridiculous. Lord Halifax. goiter For The flavor [of Zemzem water] is a salt bitter. . . this reason Turks and other strangers prefer rain-water collected in cisterns and sold for five farthings a gugglet. R. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 391. gogmagogt, n. [In allusion to two large wooden statues in the Gildhall, London, called Gog and Magog (see Rev. xx. 8).] A big or strong person. [Humorous.] Be valiant, my little gogmagogs, I'll fence with all the Merry Devil of Edmonton. justices in Hertfordshire. gogmagogical†,a. [<gogmagog + -ic-al.] Large; monstrous. Nares. Be it to all men by these presents knowne, That lately to the world was plainely showne, In a huge volume gogmagogicall. John Taylor, Works (1630). Little gogol (gō'gol), n. [ Russ. gogolu Russ. hohol, the goldeneye; cf. OBulg. gogotati= Russ. gogotati, cackle, gaggle: see cackle, gaggle.] The Russian name of the golden-eyed duck, Clangula glaucion. go-harvest (gōʻhär vest), n. [Cf. go-summer.] The season following harvest. [North. Eng.] Go-Harvest, the open weather between the end of harvest and the snow or frost. Hampson, Medii Ævi Kalendarium, II. 188 (glossary). going (gō'ing), n. [< ME. goynge; verbal n. of go, v.] 1. The act of moving in any manner. 2. pl. (a) An instrument worn like spectacles, I nearly came down a-top of a little spare man who sat (b) Spectacles. [Slang.] (c) Blinds for horses to ravine, goggle, goggle-eye (gogʻl-i), n. [< ME. gogul-eye, a Th' Ethnik's a-fire, and from his goggle eyes Miss Ferrier, Inheritance, xx. 2. To raise in relief, especially for ornamental purposes, as thin metal, starched linen, or the like.-Goffered edge, an indented decorative design on the edges of a book: an old fashion in bookbinding, applied to gilded or silvered edges.-Goffered elytra, in entom., elytra of certain beetles having very prominent longitudinal lines or carinæ, which in many cases diverge from the base and converge toward the tip. goffert (gof'er), n. [< goffer, v.] An ornamenScott, Guy Mannering, ii. tal plaiting used for the frills and borders of women's caps, etc. Fairholt. 2. Squinting; strabismus.-3. The rock-bass, a centrarchid fish. goffering (gof ́ér-ing), n. [Verbal n. of goffer, v.] Flutes, plaits, or crimps collectively. goggle-eyed (gog'l-id), a. [Formerly also goggoffering-iron (gof'er-ing-i ̋ern), n. A crimp-gle-cied; ME. gogyleyid, gogilized, squint ing-iron used for plaiting or fluting frills, etc. goffering-press (gof'er-ing-pres), n. A fluting-, plaiting-, or crimping-press, especially for imparting a crimped appearance to artificial leaves, flowers, etc. goffisht (gof'ish), a. [ME. gofisshe, goofish; < Chaucer. goff1 + ish1.] Foolish; stupid. See the extract. go-freet (go'frē'), n. Stamped wrappers for newspapers were made experimentally in London by Mr. Charles Whiting under the name of go-frees, in 1830. Encyc. Brit., XIX. 585. gog1t (gog), n. [Chiefly in the phrase on gog, agog: see agog. The relation, if any, to W. gog, activity, Ir. and Gael. gog, a nod, a slight motion (see goggle), is uncertain.] Activity; eager or impatient desire (to do something). = Or, at the least, yt setts the harte on gogg. Nay, you have put me into such a gog of going, eyed (used once by Wyclif, improperly, to trans- eyed. great And giddy doubt, and goggle-ey'd suspicion, 3t. Then comes the time, who lives to see 't, Departure. Shak., Lear, iii. 2. Thy going is not lonely; with thee goes The time of death has a far greater latitude than that of our birth, most women coming, according to their reckoning, within the compass of a fortnight, that is the twentieth N. Grew, Cosmologia Sacra. part of their going. 4. Way; shape; behavior; deportment: used And as thow by-gyledest godes ymage in goynge of an The going was bad, and the little mares could only drag the wagou at a walk; so, though we drove during the daylight, it took us two days and a night to make the journey. The Century, XXXVI. 51. When they got within five miles of the place, the horse fell dead,. and they took another horse at a farm-house on the road. It was the spring of the year, and the going was dreadful. S. O. Jewett, Cunner-Fishing. 6. A right of pasturage for a beast on a common. [Prov. Eng.]-Going forth. (a) Extension; continuation. Num. xxxiv. 4, 8. (b) An outlet. Mark well the entering in of the house, with every going Ezek. xliv. 5. forth of the sanctuary. (c) A starting; a departure: as, the going forth of the house of Israel.- Going out. (a) The act or place of exit. journeys by the commandment of the Lord. But when the year is at an end, I cannot find I lose or win. Swift, Riddles, iv. Goggle-eyed jack, a name of the big-eyed scad, Trachu ings-on) mostly in a depreciative sense. [Colloq.) rops crumenophthalmus, a carangoid fish, resembling the common scad of Europe, having goggle-eyes. It is widely distributed in tropical seas, and is found on the Atlantic coast of the United States as far north as New England. Also called goggler. The surf-scoter, a goggle-nose (gog'l-nōz), n. Gascoigne, Griefe of Joye.duck, Edemia perspicillata; the spectacle-coot: so called from the pair of round black spots on the bill, resembling goggles. Also googlenose. G. Trumbull, 1888. [Maine, U. S.] goggler (gog'ler), n. [ goggle1 + -er1.] One who or that which goggles; specifically, a fish, the goggle-eyed jack. goglet (gog'let), n. [Also guglet, gugglet; appar.< guggle + -et (perhaps simulating goblet), and so called with ref. to the gurgling sound of water poured through a narrow neck.] A globular jar of porous earthenware, with a long neck, used as a water-cooler; also, the quantity contained in such a jar. gog2 (gog), n. [Origin obscure.] A bog. [Prov. goget (goj'et), n. ferent (dim.) suffix, as gobion, ME. gojone, mod. gudgeon: see gudgeon1 and goby.] A goby. goggle1 (gogʻl), v.; pret. and pp. goggled, ppr goggling. [Early mod. E. also gogle; ‹ ME. gogelen, look asquint, a freq. verb, of Celtic origin: Ir. and Gael. gog, a nod, a slight motion (=W.gog, activity: see gog1), gogach, wavering, nodding, etc., gogshuileach, goggle-eyed (suil, I perfectly remember having said that it would not be amiss for General Carnac to have a man with a goglet of water ready to pour on his head whenever he should beLord Clive, Fort William. gin to grow warm in debate. The family did not, from his usual goings-on, expect him back again for many weeks. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, v. Pretty place it must be where they don't admit women. Nice goings-on, I dare say, Mr. Caudle. D. Jerrold, Caudle Lectures. A barrel congoing-barrel (göʻing-bar ̋el), n. taining the mainspring of a watch, and communicating, by gearing on its outer edge, the movement of the spring to the works. A mechanical going-fusee (gō'ing-fụ-zē”), n. device for keeping in motion watches and spring-clocks while being wound. See goingbarrel, going-wheel. An arrangegoing-wheel (gō'ing-hwel), n. ment invented by Huyghens, which keeps in motion a clock actuated by a weight while being wound. See going-barrel, going-fusee. goiter, goitre (goi'ter), n. [< F. goitre, goiter, < L. guttur, the throat: see guttural.] In pathol., a morbid enlargement of the thyroid gland on the front part and side or sides of the neck; struma. It is due to increase in the size and number |