Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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. I shall remember his goodness to me 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 to Israel. Ex. xviii.

GOOD-NOW, exclam.

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.
3. 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-WO'MAN, n.

The mistress of a family.

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.

GOOS'AN-DER, n.

A migratory fowl of the genus Mergus, the diver or plunger; called also merganser.

GOOSE, n. [goos. Plur. Geese. Sax. gos; Sw. gås; Dan. gaas; Arm. goas; W. gwyz; Russ. gus; Ir. gedh, or geadh; Pers. قَاْز kaz. The G. and D. is gans, but whether the same word or not, let the reader judge. The Ch. אוז or אוזא, and the corresponding Arabic and Syriac words, may possibly be the same word, the Europeans prefixing g in the Celtic manner.]

1. 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, and the quills for pens. The wild goose is migratory.
2. A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.

GOOSE'BER-RY, n. [goos'berry. In Ger. kräuselbeere, from kraus, crisp; D. kruisbes, from kruis, a cross; L. grossula; W. grwys, from rhwys, luxuriant. The English word is undoubtedly corrupted from crossberry, grossberry, or gorseberry; a name taken from the roughness of the shrub. See Cross 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. – Lee.

GOOSE-CAP, n. [goos'cap.]

A silly person. – Beaum. Johnson.

GOOSE-FOOT, n. [goos'foot.]

A plant, the Chenopodium.

GOOSE-GRASS', n. [goos'grass.]

A plant of the genus Galium. Also, the name of certain plants of the genera Potentilla and Asperugo.

GOOSE-NECK, n. [goos'neck.]

In a ship, a piece of iron fixed on one end of the tiller, to which the laniard of the whip-staff or wheel-rope comes, for steering the ship; also, an iron hook on the inner end of a boom. – Encyc. Mar. Dict.

GOOSE-QUILL, n. [goos'quill.]

The large feather or quill of a goose; or a pen made with it.

GOOS'E-RY, n.

A place for geese.

GOOSE-TONGUE, n. [goos'tung.]

A plant of the genus Achillea.

GOOSE-WING, n. [goos'wing.]

In seamen's language, a sail set on a boom on the lee side of a ship; also, the clews or lower corners of a ship's main-sail or fore-sail, when the middle part is furled. – Encyc. Mar. Dict.