Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GO'ING, 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 he 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, or Goings out, in Scripture, utmost extremity or limit; the point where an extended body terminates Num. xxxiv. 5, 9. Departure or journeying. Num. xxxiii.