good (gud)

and n.; compar. better, superl. best. [I. a. Sc. guid, gude; gode ( et gode ) = Sw. god a, n., good (that which is good as opposed to that which is bad); ( b ) Goode it were yow to a-raye in soc he maner that we were not surprised ne blamed. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), III. 582. It is not good that the man should be alone. Gen. ii. 18. What were girls good for but to undertake this sort of thing, and set more important persons free? Mrs. Oliphant , Poor Gentleman, xxvii. 2. Satisfactory in kind, quantity, quality, or degree. (a) Of a kind to give satisfaction or pleasure; po e ing valuable or desirable qualities; gratifying to the mind or the senses: as, a good book; good looks; good food; to have a good time; a good deliverance. Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit. Mat. vii. 17. If it be true that " good wine needs no bush," 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. Shak ., As you Like it, Epil. The good things of life are things which give pleasure, whether sensual or emotional: either directly, as good food, good wines, good poems, pictures, music: or indirectly, as good instruments of all kinds. H. Sidgwick, Methods of Ethics, p. 96. (b) Adequate; sufficient; without shortcoming or defect; thorough: as, to give good security; to take good heed. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pre ed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. Luke vi. 38. 3. Suitable in state or condition; sufficient in character or capacity; competent; qualified; fit: as, he is good, or his credit is good, for the sum required; a horse good for five years' service. Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God. Mat. xix. 17. I have ever perceived that where the mind was capa Allston was a good man, with a soul refined by purity, exalted by religion, softened by love. Sumner, Orations, L. 164. One must be good in order to do good; but it is a case where the fountain is deepened by the outflow of its waters. G. P. Fisher, Begin. of Christianity, p. 157. Always, then, acts are called good or bad, according as they are well or ill adjusted to ends; and whatever in inconsistency of the ends. H. Spencer, Data of Ethics, § 8. 9. Kind; friendly; gracious; hence, humane; consistency there is in our uses of the words arises from merciful; benevolent: as, a good old soul; to do one a good turn; good nature. The men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither mi ed we any thing. 1 Sam. xxv. 15. Sheridan, The Critic, i. 1. The door opened, and a half-dre ed ewe-milker, who had done that good office, shut it in their faces. Scott , Guy Manner ing, xxiii. 10. Fair; untarnished; honorable; becoming a virtuous person: as, a good nature. Sneer can't even give the public a good word! A good name is better than precious ointment. IMG:content-2506.png:[blocks in formation] Accord, good sir, the light Of your experience to dispel this gloom. Words worth, Excursion, v. A good conscience. See conscience. - A good deal. See deal1, 2.-A good fellow. See fellow, 5.- A good few. See few. As good as. ( a ) Equal or conformable to; not inferior to in value, quality, or action: as, his word is as good as his bond. The stranger he said, "This must be repaid, I'll give you as good as you bring." Robin Hood and Little John (Child's Ballads, V. 219) Ha an Abou Cuffi was as good as his word in one respect. Bruce , Source of the Nile, L. 78. (b) Practically the same as; on the verge of being or becoming, or in an equivalent state to being. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude. Heb, xi. 12 You are a married man - or as good as a married man. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxiii. (c) In effect; by clear implication; practically: as, he as good as promised it to me. [Colloq.] - During good behavior. See behavior. - Era of good feeling. See er - Good bond, cheapt, consideration. See the nouns. good -Good day, good evening (good event, good e'ent, good dent, goodent, god dent, etc.), good morning, good morrow, good night, forms of friendly salutation at meeting, and also (except good morrow ), along with other expre ions, good speed, good luck, etc., at parting; the original forms being Have (that is, I wish that you may have), or I wish you, I bid you, or God give you -a good day, evening, etc. IMG:content-2507.png:[blocks in formation] Heywood, Song. Nor could they humour the custom of good night, good morrow, good speed ; for they knew the night was good, and the day was good, without wishing of either. Penn , Rise and Progre of Quakers, ii. Good delivery, earth, faith, fellowship, Friday. See the nouns.- Good folk, neighbors, people, fairies or elves: a euphemism in rustic superstition. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] For hanting and repairing with the gude neighbours, and queene of Elfland, as she had confest. Trial of Alison Pearson , an. 1588. Good graces. See grace. - Good gracious. See gracious. -Good humor. See humor. - Good lack. [Appar. a variation of good Lord, a imilated to alack. The syllable lack has been supposed to stand for lakin, a contraction of ladykin, dim. of lady, with ref. to the Virgin Mary, called "Our lady," who was often invoked in oaths; but the expre ion 'good lady' does not seem to have been used with ref. to her.) An exclamation implying wonder, surprise, or pity. [Archaic.] Moses. 'Twas not to be done, indeed, Mr. Trip. Trip. Good lack , you surprise me! Sheridan , School for Scandal, iii. 2. Ye Gods, good lack , is it so dull in Heaven, That ye come pleasuring to Thok's iron wood? M. Arnold, Balder Dead. Good nature, sense. See the nouns.-Good speed. (a) Good succe ; prosperity. (b) Considerable rapidity: used elliptically as an adverb.- Good temper, Templar, etc. See the nouns. - In good certaint, earnest, faith, sooth, time, etc. See the nouns. - One's good dayst, one's life. Nares. Wasting her goodly hew in heavie teares, And her good dayes in dolorous disgrace. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vii. 38. Occidi, I am undone: my joy is past to this world: my good daies are spent: I am at deaths dore. Terence in English (1614). The Good Shepherd. See shepherd. - To be as good as one's word, to do all that was promised; to fufil an engagement literally. "Now, Johnie, be as good as your word." Johnie Cope (Child's Ballads, VII. 274). I promised to call upon him when I should pa Shekh Ammer, which I now accordingly did; and by the reception I met with, I found they did not expect I would ever have been as good as my word. Bruce, Source of the Nile, I. 143. To be good company, to get a good offing, to keep good hours, to keep a good house, to make a good board, etc. See the nouns. - To make good. (a) Το perform; fulfil: as, to make good one's word or promise. That I may soon make good What I have said, Bianca, get you in. Shak., T. of the S., i. 1. (b) To confirm or establish; prove; verify: as, to make good a charge or an accusation. Thou that hadst the name Of virtuous given thee, and made good the same Even from thy cradle. Fletcher, Faithful Shepherde , iv. 4. (c) To provide or supply; make up: as, I will make good what is wanting. The Councell in England.. appointed a hundred men should at the Companies charge be allotted and prouided to serue and attend the Gouernour during the time of his gouernment, which number he was to make good at his departure. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 40. (d) To supply an equivalent for; make up for: as, if you suffer lo , I will make it good to you. That alle the cost ages that be mad aboute hym be mad good of the box, zif he were nat of power to paie therfore hymself. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 7. (e) To maintain; defend; preserve intact. I'll either die or I'll make good the place. Dryden. [He] commanded Lieutenant Percie, Master West, and the rest to make good the house. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 215. (f) To carry into effect; succeed in making or effecting: as, to make good a retreat. - To make good cheert. See cheer1. To stand good, to be or remain firm or valid; be as sure or binding as at first: as, his word or promise stands good. To think good, to see good, to think or believe it to be good or proper; be willing; think it to be expedient. If ye think good , give me my price. Zech. xi. 12. To wield a good baton. See baton. - With a good grace. See grace. II. n. 1. That which is desirable, or is an object of desire. 2573 It is a most unjust ambition to desire to engro the mercies of the Almighty, not to be content with the goods of mind, without a po e ion of those of body or fortune. Sir T. Browne , Religio Medici, i. 18. Cherished peaceful days For their own sakes, as mortal life's chief good , And only reasonable felicity. Words worth, Excursion, iii. It was a umed that the wicked are succe ful, and the good are miserable. O. W. Holmes, Emerson, v. To color goodst. See color. Syn. 5. Effects, Chattels, etc. See property. good (gud), adv. [ reg. adv. of good is well: see well2.] Well. Dwelleth with us while you goode list in Troye. Chaucer, Troilus, i. 119. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, vi. As far as the distant provinces were concerned, it is probable that the imperial system was on the whole a good . Lecky , Europ. Morals, I. 281. 3. Advantage; benefit; profit; satisfaction: opposed to evil, harm, etc.: as, it does me good to hear you laugh; it will do no good; hence, welfare; well-being; advancement of interest or happine : as, to labor for the common good. [In old English sometimes used in the plural.] By riche es ther comen many goodes . Chaucer, Tale of Melibeus. Hee meanes no good to either Independent or Presby- terian. Milton , Eikon ok las tes, xxvi. He hoped it would be for her good . The Suffolk Miracle (Child's Ballads, I. 220). There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. Lowell , Democracy. 4t. A personal po e ion; a thing, or things collectively, belonging to one. Somtym his good is drenched in the see. Chaucer, Prol. to Canon's Yeoman's Tale, 1. 396. When the gode man sye his gode go to so grete myschef, he gan to be angry, and seide a worde of grete ire, for he yaf to the deuell all the remenant that was lefte. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 4. He that was lately drench'd in Danae's show'r Is master now of neither good nor trust. Quarles, Emblems, i. 9. 5. pl. Movable effects or personal chattels; articles of portable property, as distinguished from money, lands, buildings, ships, rights in action, etc.: as, household goods. Also alle the Godes of the Lond ben comoun, Cornes and alle other thinges. Mandeville, Travels, p. 179. chattels. All thy goods are confiscate. Shak., M. of V., iv. 1. A book which was the most valuable of all his goods and Southey, Bunyan, p. 37. Specifically-6. pl . (a) Articles of trade; commodities; wares; merchandise. Her Majesty, when the goods of our English merchants were attacked by the Duke of Alva, arrested likewise the goods of the Low Dutch here in England. Raleigh , E ays. They had much adoe to have their goods delivered, for some of them were chainged, as bread & pease. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 293. (b) A piece of dry-goods; a textile fabric; cloth of any kind: as, will these goods (that is, this piece of goods ) wash? [Colloq.]-7. A full end ing or conclusion; a closing act; a finality: only in the phrase for good, or for good and all. No, no, no, no, no ki ing at all; I'll not ki , till I ki you for good and all . Newest Acad. of Complements. Now though this was exceeding kind in her, yet, as my good woman said to her, unle she resolved to keep me for good and all , she would do the little gentlewoman more harm than good. Defoe , Fortunes of Moll Flanders (1722). He [Sydney Smith] left Edinburgh for good in 1803, Encyc. Brit., XXII. 177. when the education of his pupils was completed. Alien good. See alien. - Allotment of goods. See allotment.-Collation of goods. See collation. - Common good. See common. - Community of goods. See com munity.-Contraband goods, debentured goods. See the adjectives. Dry goods. See dry - goods. Dure of goods. See dure . - External good, a good situated without the person of the object for whom it is a good, as wealth and friends. - Fancy goods, first good, etc. See the adjectives. - For any goodt, for any reward; on any account. Sir Thomas Moore, hearing one tell a monstrous lie, said, I would not for any good heare him say his creed, lest it should see me a lie. Copley , Wits, Fits, and Fancies (1614). For good. See def. 7.- God's goodt. See god1 .-Goods and chattels, or goods, wares, and merchandise, a phrase commonly used to indicate property other than real estate.- Gray goods. Same as gray cotton (which see, under cotton1 ). - Green goods, counterfeit greenbacks. - Internal good, a good residing either in the soul or in the body of the object. Marking of goods. See mark ing. Measurement goods. See measurement . - The good, good or virtuous persons in general. As good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 6. The pilot must intend some port before he steers his course, or he had as good leave his ve el to the direction of the winds and the government of the waves. South , Sermons. I will provide for you, as I would have done before this, but that I thought (the charges of sending and hazard considered) you were as good provide. [the clothes] there. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 407. good (gud), interj. That is good: an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation. Sir Aylmer half forgot his lazy smile Of patron. " Good ! my lady's kinsman! good ! " Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. good (gud), v . t . [ gōdian , intr. be or become good, improve, tr. make good, improve, enrich, gōd , good: see good , a . In def. 2, Sc. also guid , göda (= Dan. gjöde ), manure, dung, appar. lit. make good, i. e., bet- ter, improve, god , good.] 1. To make good. When Platoes tale was done, then Tullie prest in place: Whose filed tongue with sugred talke would good a simple case. Turberville , An Answere in Disprayse of Wit. Greatne not gooded with grace is like a beacon upon a high hill. Rev. T. Adams , Sermons, I. 151. 2. To manure. [Old Eng. and Scotch.] The husbandman looks not for a crop in the wild desart; but where he hath gooded and plowed, and eared, and sown, why should he not look for a harvest? Bp. Hall , Remains, p. 121. good-bodiedt (gud'bod"id), a. Having a good figure. Davies . Saw all my family up, and my father and sister, who is a pretty good - bodied woman, and not over thick. Pepys , Diary, May 31, 1666. good-brother (gud'brüth"ėr), n . A brother-inlaw. [Scotch.] good-by, good-bye (gud-bi'), interj. [A corruption (with change of God- to good-, by confusion with good day, good den, etc.) of an Elizabeth an E. formula variously printed Godby, God by'e, Godbwy, God bwy, God bwy yee, God buy you, God be wi' you, God be with you, the last being the full formula of which the preceding are contractions.) God be with you: originally a pious form of valediction, used in its full significance, but now a mere conventional formula without meaning, used at parting. Good- bye , proud world! I'm going home: Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. Emerson, Good-Bye. And so, sir sheriff and priest, good - bye ! Whittier, The Exiles. =Syn. Adieu , Farewell , etc. See adieu .