Goout, Gowr

A sluice in dams or embankments against the sea, intended to let out the land-waters at the ebb, and to prevent the ingre of the sea-water when the tide floods. Gopher, n. [Fr. gaufre.] (Zool.) A species of squirrel. See SACCOMYIDE, and SPERMOPHILUS. (Script.) [Heb.] A species of wood from which the ark of Noah was built. The probable identity of the gopher-wood of Scripture with the cypre (q. v.) in maintained partly on account of the qualities of the wood, and partly from the agreement of the radical consonants of the two names. Gopher Creek, in low a, enters the Mi ouri River from Pottawattomie co. Gop'pingen, a town of Würtemberg, 28 m. from Ulm. Manuf. Woollen stuffs, paper, . Pop . (1895) 9,536. Go'ram, in Pennsylvania, a post-village of York co., 18 m. S.E. of York. Gor'-bellied, a . [A.S. gor , dirt, mud, dung, and belly ] Gro -bellied; big-bellied; having a prominent belly; as, a " gor bellied knave." -Shaks . Gor'-cock, n. [Either from gorse , furze, from gore , blood, i. e. red, or the syllable gor may be from the sound made by the bird.] ( Zool .) The red ptarmigan, Lagopus Scoticus , a British species of grouse. Gor'-crow, n. [A.S. gor , mud, dung, dirt.] ( Zool .) A name applied to the carrion-crow, Corvus corone. Gordian, (gor'de-an,) a. Pertaining or relating to Gordius Phrygia, or to the GORDIAN KNOT, д . г. Goodyera, n. ( Bot .) A genus of herbs, order Orchid a --Intricate; complicated; difficult. ceæ. The Rattlesnake Plant an, G. pubescens , found in woods in Canada and U. S., is remarkable for its leaves, which are all radical and of a dark green, reticulated above with white veins. Its flowers, which blo om in July, are white, in a terminal, oblong, cylindrical spike; lip roundish, saccate, inflated. Gooles/boro, in Texas , a post-office of Titus co. Goomty ( goom - te ), or GOOMTEE, a river of Hindostan, rising in a mora , in Lat. 28° 30 N., Lon. 80° 10 Ε., and entering the Ganges 16 m. below Benares, after a course of 480 m. There are so many of the dead thrown into it, that its waters may be accounted unfit for use, otherwise than for the purpose of navigation and irri- gation. Gordian Knot. ( Anc . Hist .) A knot made in the harne of a chariot by Gordius, king of Phrygia, which knot was so intricate as to baffle every attempt to untie it, or even to find out where it began or ended. The oracle of the day having declared that he who succeeded in solving the complication should be the conqueror of the world, Alexander the Great determined to effect it, if po ible. Deliberating that if he failed his followers would be dispirited, he determined to separate it with his sword, and with one blow he cut the momentous G. K., which was fraught with such interest to the whole world. According to Quintus Curtius, he thus fulfilled the oracle or evaded it; but Aristobulus, however, gives a | different version of the affair. The expre ion cutting the Gordian knot has consequently been used by the moderns to signify eluding any difficulty or task by bold or unusual means. Gordianus, or Gor'dian, the name of three Roman emperors. The first , or elder, MARCUS ANTONIUS AFRICAN US, descended from Trajan, proclaimed while proconsul in Africa, along with his son, who, being of the same name, is known as Gordian the Younger. The latter was killed in a battle, six weeks after their ascension, upon hearing of which Gordianus the Elder strangled himself, A. D. 236. The third of the name, MARCUS ANTONIUS PIUS GORDIANUS, was a grandson of the preceding, and was proclaimed emp. after their death, and murdered after a reign of six years, in the 20th year of his age, 244,