Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GOODLI-ER, a.

More excellent.

GOOD'LI-EST, a.

Most good or excellent.

GOOD'LI-NESS, n. [from goodly.]

Beauty of form; grace; elegance. Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes. Sidney.

GOOD'LY, a.

1. Being of a handsome form; beautiful; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment; goodly houses. Shak.
2. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable; as, goodly days. Shak.
3. Bulky; swelling; affectedly turgid. [Obs.] Dryden.

GOOD'LY, adv.

Excellently. Spencer.

GOODLY-HEAD, n.

Goodness; grace. [Not in use.] Spenser.

GOODMAN, n.

1. A familiar appellation of civility; sometimes used ironically. With you, goodman boy, if you please. Shak.
2. A rustic term of compliment; as, old goodman Dobson. Swift.
3. A familiar appellation of a husband; also, the master of. family. Prov. vii. Matth. xxiv.

GOOD-MANNERS, n.

Propriety of behavior; politeness; decorum.

GOOD-NA'TURE, n.

Natural mildness and kindness of disposition.

GOOD-NA'TUR-ED, a.

Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked.

GOOD-NA'TUR-ED-LY, adv.

With mildness of temper;

GOOD'NESS, n.

1. The state of being good; the physical qualities which constitute value, excellence or perfection; as, the goodness of timber; the goodness of a soil.
2. The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue; religion. The fruit of the Spirit is love, Joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. Gal. v.
3. Kindness; benevolence; benignity of heart; but more generally, acts of kindness; charity; humanity exercised. 1 shall remember his goodness to mo with gratitude.
4. Kindness; benevolence of nature; mercy. The Lord God—abundant in goodness and truth. Ex. xxxiv. 5, Kindness; favor shown; acts of benevolence, compassion or mercy. Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah had done totem. Ex; xviii.

GOOD-NOW,

1. An exclamation of wonder or surprise. Dryden.
2. An exclamation of entreaty. [Not used.] Shak.

GOODS, n. plur.

1. Movables; household furniture.
2. Personal or movable estate; as horses, cattle, utensils, &c. A Wares; merchandise; commodities bought and sold by merchants and traders.

GOOD'SHIP, n.

Favor; grace. [Not in use.]

GOOD-SPEED, n.

Good success; an old form of wishing success. [See Speed.]

GOOD-WIFE, n.

The mistress of a family. Burton.

GOOD-WILL, n.

Benevolence.

GOOD'Y, n. [Qu; goodwife.]

A low term of civility; as, goody Dobson. Swift. Gay.

GOOD'Y-SHIP, n.

The state or quality of a goody. [Ludicrous.] Hudibras.

GOOG'INGS, or GOOD'INGS, n.

In seamen's language, clamps of iron bolted on the stern-post of a ship, whereon to hang the rudder. Mar. Dict.

GOOM, n. [Sax. guma, Goth. guma, a man.]

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.

GOOSE, n. goos.

1. plur; Geese. [Sax. gos; Sw. gas; Dan. gaas; Arm. goas; W. gwyz; Russ. gus; Ir. gedh, or geadh; Pers; {foreign} kaz; The G. and D. is gans, but whether the same word or not, let the reader judge. The Ch. {foreign} or {foreign}, and the corresponding Arabic and Syriac words, may possibly be the same word, the Europeans prefixing g in the Celtic manner.]
2. 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, und the quills for pens. The wild goose is migratory.
3. A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.

GOOSE-BER-RY, n. goosberry. [In Ger; krauselbeere, from kraus, crisp; D. kruisbes, from kruis, a cross; L. gravula W. grwys, from rhwys, luxuriant. The English word is un doubtedly corrupted from crossberry, grossberry, or gorseberry; a name taken from the roughness of the shrub. See Crass 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 South American gooseberry belongs to the genus Melastoma, and the West Indian gooseberry to the genus Cactus.

GOOSE-CAP,

n goos'cap. A silly person. Beaum. Johnson.