goltschut

A name colloquially used for a small ingot of gold. *găm (1), *go me, *gume, s. [A. S. gum a ; Icel. gum i ; O.S. gumo ; O. H. Ger.gomo ; Dut. bruidegom ; Sw. brudgum ; Dan. brudgom .] A man, a person. [BRIDEGROOм.] Gō-mar-iteş, s. pl . [For etym. see def.] Ch. Hist.: The followers of Francis Gomar, who was born at Bruges on January 30, 1563, and in 1594 was appointed Profe or of Divinity at Leyden, obtaining as his colleague in 1603 the celebrated Arm in i us. Gomar was strongly Calvin is tic, and opposed the views of his a ociate with much zeal. When Arm in i us, about a year before his death, presented a remonstrance to the States-General, Gomar and his followers came out so strongly on the other side that they were called Anti-Remonstrants. Gomar was present at the Synod of Dort in 1618, and there and elsewhere was so distinctly the leader of the Calvin is tic opponents of Arm in i us that the Anti-Remonstrants were often called Go marites. gō-măsh'-tạ, gō-măsh-tah, subst. [Hind, gu mashta.] An agent, a factor, a commi ioner. (Anglo-Indian.)