gnomon ( g silent)

[Lat., from Gr. gnōmōn = one who knows, an interpreter; from Gr.gnōnai = to know.] 1. Astron.: A rod, style, or pillar erected perpendicularly to the horizon, from whose shadow the altitudes, declinations, ., of the sun and stars may be determined. Such styles were in use in ancient Egypt, in China, and similar contrivanceв were found at Quito by the invading Spaniards. "Comparing the height of a gnomon or pillar with the length of the solstitial shadow." - Elton : Origins of English History, p. 14. 2. Dial : The style or pin, which, by its shadow on the dial-plate, shows the hour of the day. IMG:content-0569.png:[blocks in formation] two complements BF and D. FD, together with the par- E allelogram FK CH, form the gnomon DKG or EHв. In the second figure one of the H K Gnomon. parallelograms about the diameter has been removed, so as to form a gnomon. IMG:content-0570.jpg:[blocks in formation] Saturn in us of Antioch, Cerdo, Marcian, Lucian, Severus, Blastes, Barde sanes, Tatian, .; of the Egyptian Basilides of Alexandria, Val ent in us, . The system had a good deal declined by the third century, but was not extinct till about the sixth. It has been disputed whether there are allusions to either nascent or fully developed gnosticism in the New Testament. Some writers profe to find them in such pa ages as Col. ii. 8; 1 Tim. i. 4, vi. 20; 2 Tim. ii. 16, 17; Titus iii. 9; and there appears to be one to Docetic ism in 1 John i. 1-3. "To this strange mixture was added no inconsiderable portion of Christianity, into which gnosticism had been imported by that father of heresy Simon Magus."-Lewin: St. Paul , ii. 250. would resemble a horse in its external form; its gallop also is that of a horse. The gnu lives in small herds in the karroos of Southern Africa. When alarmed it flings up its heels and capers like a restive horse; then the herd go off in single file, following a leader, with amaz- ing speed. A gnu brought to bay or wounded turns on its a ailant. It is believed that the kokoon is not distinct from the gnu. "Where the gnu , the gazelle, and the hartebeest graze." Thomas Pringle: Afar in the Desert. gō, *ga, *gan, *ganne, *gon, *gonne, v . i. & t. [A. S. gán , a contracted form of gang an =to go; cogn. with Dut. gaan ; Icel. gang a , gá; Dan.gaae; Sw. gå ; Goth. gaggan (for gang an ); Ger. gehen ; O. H. Ger. kankan , gang an , gán, gen; O. Fris. gán. Went , which is now used as the pa. t. of go , is from the verb to wend (q. v.).] 4. To be moved by mechanism. "Clocks will go as they are set; but man, Irregular man 's never constant, never certain." Otway: Venice Preserved, ii. 3. 5. To walk or move step by step; to proceed slowly or leisurely. ""And must I go to him?'-'Thou must run to him; for thou hast staid so long, that going will scarce serve the turn.'"-Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen , iii. 1. 6. To depart; to leave a place; opposed to come. "I will let you go , that ye may sacrifice, only ye shall "Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dos i the us and Sosipater, whom he besought with much craft to let him go with his life." -2 Maccabees xii. 24. *8. To lead, to extend, to reach. 9. To pa or be pa ed from one to another; to be circulated. "Stretched at their length, they pre the gra y ground, They laugh, they sing; the jolly bowls go round." Dryden: Virgil's Æneid, ix. 208. *10. To be spread, distributed, or di eminated. "Profanene is gone forth into all the land." - Jer . 11. To be carried. IMG:content-0571.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0572.jpg:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0573.png:[merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small] "There be some women, Silvius, had they marked him, In parcels, as I did, would have gone near To fall in love with him." IMG:content-0574.jpg:[blocks in formation] Against right reason all your counsels go." Dryden: Persius, sat. iv. 26. To move in any direction; to act. "Doctor, he is a curer of souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should fight, you go against the hair of your profe ions." --Shakesp .: Merry Wives, ii. 3. "They with the vanquished prince and party go , And leave their temples empty to the foe." Dryden. (Johnson) 28. To decline; to tend toward death or ruin. "He is far gone , and, truly, in my youth, I suffered much extremity for love, Very near this." Shakesp.: Hamlet , ii. 2. 29. To pa away, to depart; not to remain. "His strength went from him." -Judges xvi. 19. 30. To be talked of; to be known. IMG:content-0575.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0576.png:[blocks in formation] 40. To contribute, to conduce, to concur, to form an ingredient. 41. To proceed, to fare; to be in any state. "When violence was ceased, and war on earth, All would have gone well." -Milton : P. L. , xi. 780. 42. To fall out; to terminate; to succeed; to result. "However the busine goes , you have made fault In the boldne of your speech." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, iii. 2. 43. To be about to do; to be on the point of. (Used as an auxiliary verb.) ""We shall do it now,' said Lochiel; 'that is not the cry of men who are going to win.'"-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii. 44. To be in order of place or time. *45. To be pregnant. "The fruit she goes with, I pray that it good time and life may find." Shakesp.: Henry VIII., v. 1. IMG:content-0577.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0578.png:[blocks in formation] *(a) To fall; to come to nothing. (b) To be swallowed, accepted, or received; to be admitted, to be acceptable. "Nothing so ridiculous, nothing so impo ible, but it goes down whole with him for truth and earnest."L'Estrange: Fables. IMG:content-0579.png:[blocks in formation] to wear. 3. To go abroad : (1) To leave one's own country for a foreign one. (2) To go out of doors. (3) To be published or made public; to be disclosed. "There went this saying abroad amongst the brethren." -John xxi. 23. IMG:content-0580.png:[blocks in formation] (2) To enter into competition for. (See example under Great-go.) 25. To go in and out : To have perfect liberty. 'He shall go in and out, and find pasture." -John x. 9. 26. To go in to : (1) Ord. Lang.: To enter the presence of. (2) Scrip.: To have sexual intercourse with. 27. To go into : (1) To enter upon; as, to go into a busine . (2) To enter upon, to speak of, to discu ; as, to go into a matter. 28. To go large : Naut .: To sail with the wind cro ing the direction of the ve el's course in such a way that the sail feels its full force. 29. To go off : (1) To depart; to go away. "The leaders having charge from you to stand, Will not go off until they hear you speak." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II . , iv. 2. (2) To depart; to cease; as, The pain went off. (3) To die; to decease. "I would the friends we mi were safe arrived: Some must go off." Shakesp.: Macbeth , v. 7. (4) To explode; to be discharged or exploded. (5) To be sold or disposed of; to be bought up. (6) To take place; to be carried out; to pa over. "The wedding went off much as such affairs do."- Mrs . Gaskell: Wives and Daughters , ch. xiv. IMG:content-0581.png:[blocks in formation] go (5) Univ .: To proceed regularly to an academical degree. (6) To leave or vacate office; as, a ministry goes out . 34. To go over : (1) To pa from one side of to the other; to cro ; to pa over. ( a ) Transitive : "I must not go over Jordan." -Deut. iv. 22. (b) Intransitive: "Let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan."- Deut . iii. 25. (2) To revolt; to desert from one side to another; to change sides. (3) To read, to peruse, to study, to view or review: to examine. "If we go over the laws of Christianity, we shall find that excepting a few particulars, they enjoin the same thing."- Til lots on . (4) To think or meditate over. (5) To transcend, to bear, to surpa . 35. To go over to (or join ) the majority: To die, to decease. [MAJORITY.] 36. To go the whole figure: To go to the fullest extent in gaining a point or obtaining an object. ( Colloq .) 31. To go the whole hog: To go to the fullest extent; to be out-and-out; to stick at nothing. ( Slang .) 38. To go through: (1) To pa through any substance. (2) To perform thoroughly; to accomplish; to finish; to bring to a completion. (3) To suffer, to endure. to undergo, to put up with; as, the troubles he has gone through. (4) To waste; to spend completely; to run through. (5) To bungle a busine . (Scotch.) (6) To strip of valuable property. ( Slang .) 39. To go through with: (1) To perform thoroughly; to bring to a comple tion. "He much feared the Earl of Antrim had not steadine of mind enough to go through with such an undertaking." -Clarendon: Civil War. (2) To persevere in to the end. "Finding Pyrocles every way able to go through with that kind of life, he was as desirous for his sake as for his own to enter into it."-Sidney: Arcadia . 40. To go to ground : (1) Lit. & Hunt .: Said of a fox when he succeeds in escaping the hounds by taking refuge in an earth or a hole. "Saved his brush by going to ground in a drain."-Lon don Field. *(2) Fig .: To fall or die in battle; to be slain. "In a battle where so many before our eyes go to the ground, paying the debt to nature daily." Ch . Sutton: Learn to Die (1634), p. 17. 41. To go to naught : To come to nothing; to fail. 42. To go to work : To set to work; to start at any work or pursuit. "Because this atheist goes mechanically to work , he will not offer to affirm that all the parts of the embryon could, according to his explication, be formed at a time."-Bentley: Boyle Lectures. IMG:content-0582.png:[blocks in formation] to go on reading. *(3) To make attack. (4) To be put on as a garment, .; to fit. 31. To go on all fours with anything: To agree in a bad sense.) "I did go between them, as I said; but more than that, he loved her; for, indeed, he was mad for her."- Shakesp .: All's Well That Ends Well , v. 3. *13. To go beyond: To cheat, to outdo, to overreach. "That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter."-1 The alonians iv. 6. 14. To go by: (1) To pa by or near to. (2) To pa beyond. 32. To go on a wind: Naut.: To sail to windward. 33. To go out : (1) To i ue forth from a place. (2) To go upon any expedition. "You need not to have pricked me: there are other men fitter to go out than I."- Shakesp .: Henry IV., Pt . II ., iii. 2. (3) To become public: to be divulged or published. (4) To be extinguished; to become extinct; as, A candle or a fire goes out . "Life itself goes out at thy displeasure." chin, Add is on: Cato. 48. To go wrong: (1) Lit .: To take a wrong way or road; to wander from the road. (2) Figuratively : (a) To go astray from the paths of virtue. (b) To fail in busine . (c) To fall out unluckily or unfortunately; as, Things went wrong with him. (d) To become unsound or tainted, as meat, fruit, . 49. Let go : To loose one's hold of; to release. " Let go , slave, or thou diest." -Shakesp .: Lear , iv. 6. *50. Go to : Come, move. (A phrase of exhortation; often used ironically.) "Go to go tol thou art a foolish fellow; Let me be clear of thee." Shakesp.: Twelfth Night , iv. 1. Xenophon, exist. ph = f. 128 IMG:content-0583.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0584.png:[blocks in formation] constituted the highest type of manhood in Europe The males fight furiously with each other in the rutting time. They have an offensive smell. (2) The genus Capra (q. v.). 2. The family Capride (q. v.). goat-beard, s. [GOAT'S-BEARD.] of the sheaves, and make the goaf more compact. goaf-ladder, *gofe-ladder, s. A ladder for car- rying hay on to the rick. goaf-stead, s. A division of a barn in which a goaf is placed. Bot.: The fig-tree in its wild state. goat-fold, s . A fold or inclosure for goats. 1. The winning post in a race; the point or mark son .) set to bound a race. "Else, though unequaled to the goal he flies, A meaner than himself shall gain the prize." "Thy nurse will bear no load; And woe to them that shear her, And woe to them that goad." IMG:content-0585.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The space marked by goal-posts and a cro - bar, to define the required path of the ball in order that a goal [2] may be scored. According to Rugby rules, the ball must be kicked over the cro -bar; according to A ociation rules, it must go under . "He reached within thirty yards of goal."-London Field . 2. The act of kicking the ball through or over the goal-posts. IMG:content-0586.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0587.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: Lonicera periclymeпит . goat-weed, s. IMG:content-0588.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Spirea aruncus . ( Paxton .) goat's-bush, s . goat s-foot, s. goat's-foot Bot.: Oralis caprina. *Goat's-foot lever: Old Arm .: A contrivance for setting a cro -bow. It was so called because it bore some resemblance to the foot of a goat. "[A latch] of the time of Elizabeth, bent by means of 2035