Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GOTH'IC, a.

1. Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; Gothic architecture; Gothic barbarity.
2. Rude; ancient.
3. Barbarous.

GOTH'IC, n.

The language of the Goths.

GOTH'I-CISM, n.

1. Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.
2. A Gothic idiom.
3. Conformity to the Gothic style of building.

GOTH'I-CIZE, v.t.

To make Gothic; to bring back to barbarism. Straw.

GOTH'I-CIZ-ED, pp.

Made Gothic; brought back to barbarism.

GOUD, n.

Woad. [Not used.]

GOUGE, n. [gouj; Fr. gouge; Arm. gouich.]

A round hollow chisel, used to cut holes, channels or grooves in wood or stone. Moxom.

GOUGE, v.t. [gouj.]

1. To scoop out with a gouge.
2. To force out the eye of a person with the thumb or finger; a barbarous practice.

GOUG'ED, pp.

Scooped out, as with a gouge.

GOU'JEERS, n.

The venereal disease. Shak.

GOUL'AND, n.

A plant or flower. B. Johnson. Goulard's Extract, so called from the inventor, a saturated solution of the trisacetete of lead, used as a remedy for inflammation. Ure.

GOURD, n. [Fr. courge; D. kauwoerde. Qu. the root of gherkin.]

A plant and its fruit, of the genus Lagenaria. The shell is sometimes used for a piggin or for a bottle.

GOURD'I-NESS, n.

A swelling on a horse's leg after a journey. Far. Dict.

GOURD'-TREE, n.

A tree, the Crescentia, or Calabash, found in the West Indies. Fam. of Plants.

GOURD'Y, a.

Swelled in the legs.

GOUR'MAND, n. [See GORMAND.]

GOUT, n. [goo; Fr. from L. gustus; taste.]

Taste; relish.

GOUT, n. [Fr. goutte, a drop, the gout; the disease being considered as a defluxion; It. gotta; Sp. gota; Ir. guta; L. gutta. Qu. Pers. كُوتْ kot, hot, infirm in the feet.]

1. The Podagra, a painful disease of the small joints, but sometimes affecting the stomach. It is often periodical or intermitting. Coxe.
2. A drop. [Not used.]. Shak.

GOUT'I-LY, adv.

In a gouty manner.

GOUT'I-NESS, n.

The state of being subject to the gout; gouty affections.

GOUT'SWELL-ED, a.

Swelled with the gout.

GOUT'WORT, n.

A plant, the Ægopodium.

GOUT'Y, a.

1. Diseased with the gout, or subject to the gout; as, a gouty person; a gouty joint; a gouty constitution.
2. Pertaining to the gout; as, gouty matter. Blackmore.
3. Swelled; boggy; as, gouty land. [Not in use.] Spenser.

GOVE, n.

A mow. [Local.]

GOV'ERN, v.i.

1. To exercise authority; to administer the laws. The chief magistrate should govern with impartiality.
2. To maintain the superiority; to have the control. Dryden.