goatlike

[English goat, and like.] Like a goat; goatish. gõat-skin, s. & a. [Eng. goat, and skin.] A. As subst .: The skin of a goat, dre ed, especially one sewn into the shape of a bottle. "Then filled two goatskins with her hands divine, With water one, and one with sable wine." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, v. 838. B. As adj .: Made of the skin of a goat. gōat-sŭck-er, s. [Eng. goat , and sucker .] Ornithology and Ordinary Language : 1. Sing .: One of the English names of a remark a ble migratory bird, Caprimulgus europœus . The erroneous belief that it sucks goats seems to have arisen among the goatherds in ancient Greece, who called it aigothélés , from aiz (gen it. aigos )=a goat, and thele the nipple; and the Romans, falling into the same error, denominated it Caprimulgus (α. ν.). 2. Pl .: The sub-family Caprimulginse, or the family Caprimulgidae (q. v.). bôil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, devour greedily.] I. Ordinary Language: IMG:content-0590.png:[blocks in formation] gob-bět, v. t. [GOBBET, 8.] To swallow in large mouthfuls; to gulp down. "Down comes a kite powdering upon them, and gobbets up both together." - L'Estrange . *gobbet-meale, *gobet-mele, adv . Bit by bit; in little fragments. "He slewe Hamon neare to a hauen of the sea, and threw him gobbet-meale therein; it is now called South hampton."- Stow : The Romans (an. 21). *gob-bět-lý, *gob-et-liche, adv . [Eng. gobbet ; ly .] In little fragments; in pieces. "His fader was islawe liche." -Trevis a, iv. 103. ..