Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GO'-BE-TWEEN, n. [go and between.]

An interposer; one who transacts business between parties. Shak.

GOB'LET, n. [Fr. gobelet; Arm; gob or gobeled; Heb. {foreign}.]

A kina of cup or drinking vessel without a handle. We lore not loaded boards, and gablets crown'd. Denham.

GOBLIN, n. [Fr. gobelin; G; kobold, u goblin; D. kabouter, a boy, an elf; kabouter-mannetje, a goblin; Arm. gobylin; W. coblyn, a knocker, a thumper, a pecker, a fiend; cobiaw, to knock; from cob, u top, a thump.]

1. An evil spirit; a walking spirit; a frightful phantom. To whom the goblin, full of wrath, replied. Milton.
2. A. fairy; an elf. Shak.

GO'-BY, n. [go and by.]

1. Evasion; escape by artifice. Collier.
2. A passing without notice; a thrusting away; a shifting off; as, to give a proposal the go-by.

GO'-CART, n. [go and cart.]

A machine with wheels, in which children learn to walk without danger of falling.

GOD, n. [Sax. god; G. gott; D. god; Sw. and Dan; gud; Goth. goth or guth; Pers. {foreign} goda or choda; Hindoo, khoda, codam. As this word and good are written exactly alike in Saxon, it has been inferred that God was named from his goodness. But the corresponding words in most of the other languages are not the same, and I believe no instance can be found of a name given to the Supreme Being from the attribute of goodness. It is probably an idea too remote from the rude conceptions of men in early ages. Except the word Jehovah, I have found the name of the Supreme Being to be usually taken from his supremacy or power, and to be equivalent to lord or ruler, from some root signifying to press or exert force. Now in the present case, we have evidence that this is the sense of this word, for in Persic. goda is rendered dominus, possessor, princeps, as is a derivative of the same word. See Cast. Lex. col. 231.]

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 iv.
2. A false god; a heathen deity; an idol. Fear not the gods of the Amorites. Judges vi.
3. A prince; a ruler; a magistrate or judge; an angel. Thou shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people. Exod. xxii; Ps. xcvii. [Gods here is a bad translation.]
4. Any person or thing exalted too much in estimation, or deified and honored ne the chief good. Whose god is their belly. Phil. iii.

GOD, v.t.

To deify. [Not used.] Shak. GOD'CHlLD, n. [god and child.] One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and promises to see educated as a Christian.

GOD'DAUGH-TER, n. [god and daughter.]

A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism; [See Godfather.]

GOD'DESS, n.

1. 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. Addison.
2. In the language of love, a woman of superior charms or excellence.

GODDESS-LIKE, a.

Resembling a goddess; Pope.

GOD'FA-THER, n. [Sax. god and faeder. The Saxons used also godsibb, good relation.]

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 Romish 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. Encyc.

GOD'FA-THER, v.t.

To act as godfather; to take under one's fostering care. Burke.

GOD'HEAD, n.

1. god'hed; [god and Sax. hade, state.]
2. Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; applied to the true God, and to heathen deities. Milton. Prior.
3. A deity in person; a god or goddess. Dryden.

GODLESS, a.

1. Having no reverence for God; impious; ungodly; irreligious; wicked. Hooker.
2. Atheistical; having no belief in the existence of God. Milton.

GODLESS-LY, adv.

Irreverently; atheistically.

GOD'LESS-NESS, n.

The state of being impious or irreligious. Bp. Hall.

GOD'LIKE, a.

1. Resembling God; divine.
2. Resembling a deity, or heathen divinity.
3. Of superior excellence; as, godlike virtue; a godlike prince.

GOD'LIKE-NESS, n.

The elate of being godlike.

GOD'LI-LY, adv.

Piously; righteously. H. Wharton.

GOD'LI-NESS, n. [from godly.]

1. Piety; belief in God and reverence for his character and laws.
2. 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 to all things. 1 Tim. iv.
3. Revolution; the system of Christianity. Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness; God was manifest in the flesh. 1 Tim. iii.

GOD'LING, n.

A little deity; a diminutive god; as, a puny godling. Dryden.

GOD'LY, a. [god-like.]

1. Pious; reverencing God, and his character and laws.
2. 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.
3. Pious; conformed to God's law; as, a godly life.

GODLY, adv.

Piously; righteously. All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. 2 Tim. iii.

GOD'LY-HEAD, n. [Sax. god, good, and head.]

Goodness. [Obs.] Spenser.

GOD'MOTH-ER, n. [god and mother.]

A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism.