Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GOS'SA-MER, n. [L. gossipium, cotton.]

A fine filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furz or low bushes, and is probably formed by a species of spider. Encyc.

GOS'SA-MER-Y, a.

Like gossamer; flimsy; unsubstantial. Pursuits of Literature.

GOS'SIP, n. [Sax. godsibb; god, good, and sib or sibb, peace, adoption and relation; a Saxon name of a sponsor at baptism.]

1. A sponsor; one who answers for a child in baptism; a godfather. [Obs.] Shak. Davies.
2. A tippling companion. And sometimes lurk I in a gossip's bowl. Shak.
3. One who runs from house to house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. Dryden. [This is the sense in which the word is now used.]
4. A friend or neighbor. [Obs.]
5. Mere tattle; idle talk.

GOS'SIP, v.i.

1. To prate; to chat; to talk much. Shak.
2. To be a pot-companion. Shak.
3. To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.

GOS'SIP-ING, n.

A prating; a running about to collect tales and tattle.

GOS'SIP-ING, ppr.

Prating; chatting; running from place to place and tattling.

GOS'SIP-RED, n.

Compaternity; spiritual affinity, for which a juror might be challenged. [Not used.] Davies.

GOS-SOON', n. [Fr. garçon, corrupted.]

A boy; a servant. [Not in use.]

GOS'TING, n.

An herb. Ainsworth.

GOT,

and GOT'TEN, pp. [of get.]

GOT, v. [pret. of get. The old preterit gat, pronounced got, is nearly obsolete.]

GOTH, n.

1. One of an ancient and distinguished tribe or nation, which inhabited Scandinavia, now Sweden and Norway, whose language is now retained in those countries, and a large portion of it is found in English.
2. One rude or uncivilized; a barbarian. Addison.
3. A rude ignorant person. Chesterfield,

GO'THAM-IST, n.

A person deficient in wisdom, so called from Gotham in Nottinghamshire, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton.

GO'THAM-ITE, n.

A term sportively applied to the inhabitants of New York.

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.