That feelings of soberness or gloom go with black, of excitement with red,

would probably be admitted by most persons. G. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychology, p. 516. To go without saying, to be taken for granted; be understood without explanation or without mention, [Compare the French aller sans dire.] The third act is over and it is tremendous; if the other two acts go in the same way it is an immense go . Lester Wallack , Memories. [In the following phrases the verb is not really transitive in sense; what follows it is adverbial in all cases.] To dot and go one. See dot1 . - To go a journey, to engage in a journey; travel. He himself went a day's journey into the wilderne . 1 Ki. xix. 4. To go an errand, to go on an errand; take a me age.- To go bail. See bail2 . To go halves or shares, to share anything in two equal parts; bear or enjoy a part; partici- pate in, as an enterprise. His bundle, waved his hand, and went his way. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. To go security, to make one's self responsible; give bond. It was but last week he went security for a fellow whose This is a pretty go , is this here! an uncommon pretty go ! Dickens, Nicholas Nickle by, lvii. I see a man with his eye pushed out; that was a rum go as ever I saw. George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, vii. 2. Fashion or mode: as, capes are all the go . [Colloq.] Now seldom, I ween, is such costume seen, Except at a stage-play or masquerade; But who doth not know it was rather the go With Pilgrims and Saints in the second Crusade? Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 251. Just examine my bumps, and you'll see it's no go . Lowell, At Commencement Dinner, 1866. got. An obsolete form of gone , past participle of go . Chaucer . goa (gō'ä), n. [Native name?] 1. A name of a Tibetan antelope, Procapra picticauda . Gray. Also called ragoa .-2. A name of the marsh- crocodile. Goa ball (go'a bal). [Supposed to have been devised by the Portuguese Jesuits at Goa in the 17th century.] 1. A compound of drugs formed into a ball or an egg-shaped ma , and used as a remedy or preventive for fever, by scraping a little powder from the ball and di olving it in water. These balls seem to be compounded of powerful drugs, and are commonly scented with musk. Also called Goa stone . - 2. A hol- low sphere of metal, often ornamented and of valuable material, made to contain a Goa ball (in sense 1). Goa beans. See bean1 . goad1 (god), n. [ gode , god , earlier gad (with long vowel), gad (not * gæd or* gădu ), a goad (also in comp. gād - isen , a goad, lit. 'goad- iron'); the same word as E. gad1 , gadde , gad (with short vowel), gaddr gadd , a goad, sting, gadde , a gadfly. The AS. and Scand. forms are respectively contracted and a imilated forms of an orig. * gazd , appearing (with rhota- cism) in the AS. gierd , gyrd , ME. gerd , zerd , yerd , E. yardı , a rod, and in Goth. gazds , a goad, prick, sting (Gr. κέντρον : see center1 ), = L. has- ta , a spear (> E. hastate , haslet , etc.). See gad , ged, yard1.] 1. A stick, rod, or staff with a pointed end, used for driving cattle; hence, anything that urges or stimulates. For I do iudge those same goads and prickes wherewith their consciences are prikt and wounded to be a greuous fealing of that same iudgment. Calvin , Four Sermons, i. Else you again beneath my Yoke shall bow, Feel the sharp Goad , and draw the servile Plow. The spur of this period consisted of a single goad . J. Hewitt , Ancient Armour, I. 81. The splendid cathedral of Pisa, not far off, was a goad to the pride and vanity of the Sienese. 2. A decoy at an auction; a Peter Funk. [Slang.]-3+. [Cf. yard , rod , perch , as measures of length.] A little-used English measure of length. In Dor sets hire the goad of land was 15 feet 1 inch. A statute of James I. speaks of goods at 15 pence the yard or 20 the goad . goad-groomt, n. A carter or plowman; one who uses the goad. Daries . goadsman (gōdz'man), n.; pl. goadsmen (-men). [ goad , po . goad's , + man; = gadsman , Se. gaudsman .] One who drives oxen with a goad; an ox-driver. Ye may be goadsman for the first twa or three days, and tak teut ye dinna o'er-drive the owsen, and then ye will be fit to gang between the stilts. Scott , Old Mortality, vi goad-spur (gōd'spėr), n. A spur without a rowel and having a single more or le blunt point. In the early middle agos this was the common form in Europe. goadster (god's ter), n. [ goad +-ster.] One who drives with a goad; a goadsman. Cars drawn by eight white horses, goadsters in cla ical costume, with fillets and wheat-ears enough. Carlyle , French Rev., II. iii. 7. It must be remembered that the gas exists in mines un- der two quite distinct conditions, that in the goaves and waste places being free. Nature, XXXVI. 487. goaf-flap (gōf'flap), n. A wooden beater to knock the ends of the sheaves and make the goaf more compact. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] go-ahead (gō'a-hed'), a . [Attrib. use of the verb-phrase go ahead .] Energetic; pushing; active; driving. See ahead , 2. [Colloq.] You would fancy that the go - ahead party try to restore order and help busine on. Not the least. Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels. Milton , P. L., ii. 531. So self starts nothing but what tends apace Home to the goal , where it began the race. Cowper , Charity, 1. 566. goad1 (god), v . t . [ goad1 , n.] To prick; drive with a goad; hence, to incite; stimulate; in- 2. In athletic games and plays, the mark, point. stigate; urge forward or rouse to action by any hara ing or irritating means. Goaded with most sharp occasions, Which lay nice manners by, I put you to The use of your own virtues. Shak ., All's Well, v. 1. Fletcher (and another ), False One, v. 3. Who would bring back the by-gone penalties, and goad on tender consciences to hypocrisy? Story , Speech, Salem, Sept. 18, 1828. =Syn. To impel, spur, arouse, stir up, set on. ing or kicking the ball through or over the goal: as, to make a goal . -4. The end or term in a- tion; the finish. Still, as we nearer draw to life's dark goal . Be hopeful Spring the favorite of the Soul! Words worth, To Lycoris. IMG:content-2461.png:[blocks in formation] O yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill. IMG:content-2462.jpg:[blocks in formation] N. goral , or N. crisp us of Japan. P. L. Sclater . goat's-rue (gōts'rö), n . A plant, Galega offici- See cut under goral. goat-beard (gōt'bērd), n. Same as goat's - beard . goat-buck (goōt'buk), n. A he-goat. goat-chafer (gōt'cha fer), n. A kind of bee- tle, probably the chafer Melolontha solstitial is , the favorite food of the goatsucker.. goatee (gō-te'), n. [ goat + -ee2; the thing being likened to the beard of a goat.] A tuft of beard left on the chin after the rest has been shaved off; an imperial, especially one extend- ing under the chin. [Colloq.] goat-fish (gōt'fish), n. 1. The European file- fish, Balistes capriscus . - 2. A West Indian and South American mulloid fish, Upeneus macula- tus , of a red color with bluish longitudinal lines on the sides of the head and three black blotches on the body above the lateral line. goatfold (gōt'föld), n. A fold or inclosure for goats. go at head (gōt'hed), n . An old book-name of a godwit, Limosa ægocephala , translating the cla ic name of this or some similar bird. goatherd (gōt'herd), n. [Early mod. E. also goteheard; gootherde , gateheyrd , gāta hyrde (= Sw. getherde = Dan. gedehyrde ) : gāta , gen. pl. of gat , a goat; hyrde , a herd, keep- er.] One whose occupation is the care of goats. Is not thilke same a goteheard prowde, That sittes on yonder bancke, Whose straying heard them selfe doth shrowde Emong the bushes rancke? The goatherd , ble ed man! had lips Wet with the muses' nectar. IMG:content-2463.jpg:[graphic] Goatsucker (Caprimulgus europaus). act eristic of or resembling a goat; hircine. To kepe him from pikinge it was a greate paine; He gased on me with his go at is he berde; When I loked on him, me purse was half aferde. On's shield the goatish Satires dance around (Their heads much lighter then their nimble heels). P. Fletcher , Purple Island, vii. IMG:content-2464.png:[blocks in formation] spegoat-marjoram (gōt'märjō-ram), n. Goat's- goat-milker (gōt'milkėr), n. Same as goat- sucker . goat-moth (gōt'môth), moth, Co us ligniperda , belonging to the fam- ily Co ida . It is from 3 to 34 inches in expanse of wings. See cut under Co us. goat-owl (gōt'oul), n. The goatsucker or night- jar, Caprimulgus europe us . Montagu. goat's-bane (gōts'ban), n. The plant wolf's- bane, Aconitum Lycoctonum. goat's-beard (gōts'bērd), n. 1. The Tragopo- gon pratensis , a European composite plant with long and coarse pappus.-2. The Spirea Arun- cus: so called from the arrangement of its many slender spikes of small flowers in a long panicle. A very similar plant, Astilbe dec an- dra, is known as false goat's-beard.-3. Any one of several fungi of the genus Clavaria . - Gray goat's-beard, a species of fungus belonging to the goat's-foot (gōts'fut), n. and a. I. n. The plant Oxalis caprina , a South African species cultivated in greenhouses. era and species. See Ægocerus , Capra , Hemi- tragus , Kemas .-3. Same as goatskin , 2.-4. A stepping-stone. [Prov. Eng.] - Angora goat, a variety of goat, Capra an go rens is , native to the district surrounding Angora in Asia Minor, distinguished for its long and beautiful silky hair. The yarn is known as Tur- key yarn or camel-yarn. See Angora wool , under wool . Sometimes incorrectly called Angola goat . - Goat's-hair cloth, cloth made of goat's hair, or of the finer wool that is mingled with the long hair of some species of goats. See cashmere, mohair, rampoor. Goat's-hair glo , the beautiful luster peculiar to certain pile-carpets of India and northern Persia, supposed to be a property of the soft goat's hair of which the pile is made. - Rocky Moun- g tain goat, Haplocerus montan us , a kind of antelope in- habiting the higher mountain-ranges of western North America, with a thick fleece of long white hair or wool, and short, sharp, and smooth black horns, like those of the chamois, of which it is a near relative. It is the only American representative of its kind, and not a goat in any proper sense. See Haplocerus . - Yellow goat. Same goat2 (gōt), n. Another spelling of gote . goat-antelope (gōt'an tē-lōp), n. A goat-like antelope of the genus Nemorhedus , as the goral, lever. See lever . goat's-horn (gōts'hôrn), n. The Astragalus Ægiceras , a plant of southern Europe, some- times cultivated. goatskin (gōt's kin), n. 1. The detached skin of the goat, with or without the hair. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins ; be- ing destitute, afflicted, tormented. 2. Tanned or tawed leather from the skin of the goat. The best dyed morocco, used in bookbinding and for fine shoes, etc., consists of goatskin. Tawed goat- skin is used for wash-leather, gloves, etc. Also called goat . gobbet ily; of Celtic origin: see gob2 . Cf. jobbet , a dial. a ibilated form of gobbet .] 1. A mouthful; a morsel; a lump; a part; a fragment; a piece. [Obsolete or archaic.] He seide he hadde a gobet of the seyl That seynt Peter hadde.