goodly (gudli)

[ An evil soul, producing holy witne , Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! Shak., M. of V., i. 3. O but they are a gudelie pair! - True lovers an ye be. Clerk Saunders (Child's Ballads, II. 322). The King of Norway sent him [King Athelstan] a goodly Baker , Chronicles, p. 10. Ship with a gilt Stern. 2. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable. The spreading branches made a goodly show, And full of opening blooms was every bough. Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 105. This spacious plot For pleasure made, a goodly spot. Words worth, White Doe of Rylstone, iv. 3. Considerable; rather large or great; as, a goodly number. And here, from gracious England, have I offer Of goodly you sands. IMG:content-2510.png:[blocks in formation] J. Fiske, Cosmic Philos., I. 27. goodlyt (gud'li), adv. [ If thou be so bold as alle burnez tellen, Thou wyl grant me godly the gomen that I ask, bi ryzt. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 272. It was her guise all Straungers goodly so to greet. Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 56. 2. Well; properly. that goodman is an accom. of AS. gumman, & man (a once-occurring poet. word, If the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. IMG:content-2511.png:[blocks in formation] 2. A familiar appellation of civility; a term of respect, frequently used to or of a person before his surname: nearly equivalent to Mr. or sometimes to gaffer. It was sometimes used ironically. [Obsolescent.] With you, goodman boy, if you please. Shak . , Lear, ii. 2. Goodman coxcomb the citizen, who would you speak withal? B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 2. Our neighbor Cole and goodman Newton have been sick, but somewhat amended again. Winthrop, Hist. New England, L. 422. good-minded (güd'minded), a. Amiable; well meaning. [Rare.] Alas, good - minded prince, you know not these things. Beau. and Fl . , Phil aster, ii. 4. good-morning (gud'môr'ning), n. See good day , good morning , etc., under good . good-morrow (gud'mor'ō), n. [In Elizabeth an E.; the same as good - morning , q. v.] 1. Same as good-morning, good morning .-21. A commonplace compliment; an empty phrase of courtesy. After this saiyng, the commenaltie of Athenes, which had afore condemned him, were sodainly stricken againe in loue with hym, and saied that he was an honest man again and loued the citee, and many gaie good morowes. Udall , tr. of Apophthegms of Erasmus, p. 376. She spoke of the domestic all kind of captivities and drudgeries that women are put unto, with many such good Howell , Parly of Beasts, p. 67. good-natured (gud'nā'turd), a. Having a good disposition; naturally mild in temper; easily acquiescent. morrows. bation. A man who is commonly called good natured is hardly to be thanked for anything he does, because half that is acted about him is done rather by sufferance than appro Tatler , No. 76. In that same village.. there lived many years since a simple good - natured fellow, of the name of Rip Van Winkle. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 46. The most good - natured host began to repent of his eagerne to serve a man of genius in distre when he heard his guest roaring for fresh punch at five o'clock in the morning. Macaulay , Boswell's Johnson. =Syn. Gracious , Kind , etc. See benignant . good-naturedly (gud' na'turd-li), adv . In a good-natured manner; with good nature or docility.