Dictionary: GO-DROON – GO'ING

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GO-DROON, n. [Fr. godron, a ruffle or puff.]

In architecture, a kind of inverted fluting or beading for ornament. Elmes.

GODSEND, a.

Something sent by God, or good fortune.

GOD'SHIP, s.

Deity; divinity; the rank or character of a god. O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior.

GOD'SMITH, n.

A maker of idols. Dryden.

GOD'SON, n. [Sax. godsunu.]

One for whom another has been sponsor at the font.

GOD'S-PEN-NY, n.

An earnest-penny. Beaum.

GOD'WARD, adv.

Toward God. [An ill-formed word.]

GOD'WIT, n. [lce. god, and veide.]

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. Encyc.

GOD-WO-MAN, n.

The mistress of a family.

GOD'YELD, or GOD'YIELD, adv. [Supposed to be contracted from good or god, and shield.]

A term of thanks. [Obs.] Shak.

GO'EL, a. [Sax. gealew.]

Yellow. [Obs.] Tusser.

GO'ER, n. [from go.]

  1. One that goes; a runner or walker; one that has a gait good or bad. Wotton.
  2. One that transacts business between parties; in an ill sense. Shak.
  3. A foot. Chapman.
  4. A term applied to a horse; as, a good goer; a safe goer; [Unusual in the United States.] Dawn.

GO'E-TY, n. [Gr. {foreign}.]

Invocation of evil spirits. [Not in use.] Hallywell.

GOFF, n. [Qu; W. gofol, contracted, a word composed of c and fil, foolish; or Fr. goffe; or a contraction of D; kolf, a club.]

A foolish clown; also, u game. [Obs.] [See Golf.]

GOFF'ISH, a.

Foolish; stupid. [Obs.] Chaucer.

GOG, n. [W; gog, activity, rapidity; probably allied to gig. See Agog.]

Haste; ardent desire to go. Beaum.

GOG'GIED, a.

Prominent; staring, as the eye. Herbert.

GOG'GLE, a.

Having full eyes; staring. B. Jonson.

GOG'GLE, n.

A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

GOG'GLE, v.i. [W; gogelu, to shun; go, a prefix, and gelu, from cel, a shelter, coinciding with L. celo; or from gog.]

To strain or roll the eyes. And wink and goggle like an owl. Hudibras.

GOG'GLE-EYE, n.

A rolling or staring eye. B. Jonson.

GOG'GLE-EY-ED, a.

Having prominent, distorted or rolling eyes. Ascham.

GOGGLES, n. plur. [W. gogelu, to shelter. See Goggle, the verb.]

  1. In surgery, instruments used to cure squinting, or the distortion of the eyes which occasions it. Encyc.
  2. Cylindrical tubes, in which are fixed glasses for defending the eyes from cold, dust, &c;, and sometimes with colored glasses to abate the intensity of light.
  3. Blinds for horses that are apt to take fright.

GOING, n.

  1. The act of moving in any manner.
  2. The act of walking. Shak.
  3. Departure. Milton.
  4. Pregnancy. Grew.
  5. Procedure; way; course of life; behavior; deportment; used chiefly in the plural. His eyes are on the ways of man, and be seeeth all his goings. Job xxxiv.
  6. 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. Ps. lxviii. Going out, Goings out, in Scripture, utmost extremity or limit; the point where an extended body terminates Num. xxxiv. 5, 9.
  7. Departure or journeying; Num. xxxiii.

GO'ING, ppr. [from go.]

Moving; walking; traveling; turning; rolling; flying; sailing, &c.