Horatio's servant begg'd to go abroad;

"Tis but a step, sir, just at the street's end." Cowper, To Joseph Hill. (b) Specifically, to go to a foreign country. - To go after, to seek; follow; take pleasure in. When Solomon went after other gods, he was punished by the revolt of the people that were subject to him. Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. 118. To go against. (a) To invade; march to attack. (b) To be repugnant to: as, it goes against my principles. I determined to quit a busine which had always gone rather against my conscience. Sheridan , The Critic, i. 2. To go against the grain, to be opposed to one's inclinations or feelings; come hard. Though it went much against the grain , yet at last he so far prevailed by fair Words, that they were contented to go on with their Seal-killing, till they had filled all their Cask. Dampier , Voyages, II. ii. 27. To go ahead. (a) To go in advance. (b) To proceed; go forward; go on and do the thing in hand. [Colloq.] The specific instructions to conquer and hold California were i ued to Commodore Sloat, by Mr. Bancroft, on the 12th of July, 1846. Previous to this, however, he had been officially notified that war existed, and briefly instructed to go ahead. New York Com. Advertiser . To go aside. (a) To err; deviate from the right way; take the wrong direction. IMG:content-2459.png:[blocks in formation] (6) To withdraw; retire. To go at, to a ail; attack with energy. To go awry. See awry . - To go back on or upon, to retreat from; abandon; prove faithle to. [Colloq.] The clergyman a ured him. . if he married, it must be for better and worse; that he could not go back upon the step. E. B. Ramsay , Scottish Life and Character, p. 218. Are these Dobbs' Ferry villagers A going back on Dobbs! 'T would n't be more anom'lous If Rome went back on Rom'lus! Dobbs , His Ferry , Putnam's Mag., Jan., 1868. To go besidet. See beside . - To go between, to interpose in the affairs of; mediate between. I did go between them, as I said; but more than that, he loved her - for, indeed, he was mad for her. Shak., All's Well, v. 3. To go beyond, to exceed; surpa ; excel. See beyond. Beasts, though otherwise behind men, may notwithstanding in actions of sense and fancy go beyond them. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 6.