Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GOLD-HAM-MER, n.

A kind of bird. Dict.

GOLD-HIIT-ED, a.

Having a golden hilt.

GOLD-ING, n.

A sort of apple. Dict.

GOLD-LACE, n.

A lace wrought with gold.

GOLD-LAC-ED, a.

Trimmed with gold lace.

GOLD-LEAF, n.

Gold foliated or beaten into a thin leaf.

GOLD-LESS, a.

Destitute of gold.

GOLD-NEY, n.

A fish, the glithead. Dict.

GOLD-PLEAS-URE,

for Gold of pleasure, a plant of the genus Myagrum.

GOLD-PROOF, a.

Prof against bribery or temptation money. Beaum.

GOLD-SIZE, n.

A size or glue for burnishing gilding. Encyc.

GOLD-SMITH, n.

1. An artisan who manufactures vessels snd ornaments of gold and silver.
2. A hanker; 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.]

GOLD-STICK, n.

A colonel of a regiment of English life-guards, who attends his sovereign on state occasions.

GOLD-THREAD, n.

1. A thread formed of flatted gold laid over a thread of silk, by twisting it with a wheel and iron bobbins. Encyc.
2. A plant, Coptis trifolia; so called from its fibrous yellow roots. United States.

GOLD-WIRE, n.

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

GOLD-Y-LOCKS, n.

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

GOLF, n. [D. kolf, a club or bat; Dan; kolv, the butt end of a gun-stock.]

A game with ball and bat, in which he who drives the ball into a hole with the fewest strokes is the winner. Strutt.

GOLL, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a cavity, and the hollow of the hand; Qu; is this the Celtic form of vola]

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

GO-LOE-SHOE, n. [Arm; golo or golei, to cover.]

An over-shoe; a shoe worn over another to keep the foot dry.

GOM, n. [Sax. gun; Goth. guma.]

A man; [Obs.]

GOM-PHO'SIS, n. [Gr.]

The immovable articulation of the teeth with the jaw-bone, like a nail in a board.

GON'DO-LA, n. [It. id; Tr. gondole; Arm. gondolenn.]

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 m other parts of Italy for a passage boat. Encyc.

GON-DO-LIER, n.

A man who rows a gondola.

GONE,

1. pp; of Go; pronounced nearly gawn. Departed. It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Oath; 1 Kings it. Advanced; forward in progress; with far, farther, or further; as, a man jar gone in intemperance.
2. Ruined; undone; Exert yourselves, or we are gone.
3. Past; as, these happy days are gone; sometimes with by. Those times are gone by.
4. Lost. When her' masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone. Acts xvi.
5. Departed from life; deceased; dead.

GON'FA-LON, or GON'FA-NON, n. [gon fanon, Chaucer; Fr. gonfalon; Sax. gath-fana, war-flag, composed of goth, war, Ir. cath or cad, W. cad, and Sax. Jana, Goth. fana, L. Patmus, cloth; in Sax. a flag.]

An ensign or standard; colors. [Obs.] Milton.