a person disposed to initiate action, rather than take instructions; an enterprising person; a person with a strong drive to accomplish useful goals; especially, one whose career progresses rapidly.

a small low motor vehicle with four wheels and an open framework; -- used for racing.

A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out.

A form of labor protest by workers in which they deliberately slow down in order to cause problems for their employers.

best-looking; -- used of clothing; as, her Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes.

A species of antelope (Procapra picticauda), inhabiting Thibet.

To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.

compelled forcibly by an outside agency; as, mobs goaded by blind hatred.

That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; -- called also gob .

The line bounding the end of a playing field, at or directly in front of the goal{3}.

One of two posts supporting a crossbar which forms a goal{3}, especially in American football; also, in football the entire structure consisting of the posts, crossbar, and two uprights. To score a goal by kicking the football, the ball must pass above the crossbar and between the vertical lines formed by the uprights.

having no points scored; -- of games.

The area immediately in front of the goal.

Same as 1st Gore.

Patched; mean.

A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (Capra hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin.

A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.

having a small pointed chin beard.

A fish of the genus Upeneus, inhabiting the Gulf of Mexico. It is allied to the surmullet.

One who tends goats.

Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.

Like a goat; goatish.

A weedy European annual with yellow flowers, of the genus Tragopogon; -- so named from the long silky beard of the seeds. One species is the salsify or oyster plant; it is naturalized in US.

A short-stemmed South African plant (Oxalis caprina) with bluish flowers.

The skin of a goat, or leather made from it. Made of the skin of a goat.

One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species (Caprimulgus Europ/us); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.

Old workings. See Goaf.

Same as sailor.

A Japanese game, played on a checkerboard, in which the object of the game is to be the first in placing five pieces, or men, in a row in any direction.

To swallow greedily; to swallow in gobbets.

In pieces.

The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff.

A noise made in the throat.

The incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists; as, psychoanalytic gobbledygook.

A turkey cock; a bubbling Jock.

Pertaining to tapestry produced in the so-called Gobelin works, which have been maintained by the French Government since 1667.

Literally, a fly swallower; hence, once who keeps his mouth open; a boor; a silly and credulous person.

See Gobbet.

A natural family of fish comprising the gobies.

A genus of fish comprising the true gudgeons.

Like, or pertaining to, the goby, or the genus Gobius. A gobioid fish.

A kind of cup or drinking vessel having a foot or standard, but without a handle.

An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.

One of the ropes or chains serving as stays for the dolphin striker or the bowsprit; -- called also gobrope and gaubline.

To transform into a goblin.

A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.

One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera.

To treat as a god; to idolize.

Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; devoutly religious.

deserted and unhospitable.

One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.

A more intense and vulgar form of darned; -- often taken as profane and offensive.

A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.

A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.

Good.

Goodly.

To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.

Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence; godhood.

Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead.

In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully.

Resembling or befitting a god or God; divine; hence, preeminently good; as, godlike virtue.

Righteously.

Careful observance of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety.

A diminutive god.

Piously; devoutly; righteously.

Goodness.

A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. See Godfather

A warehouse.

An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.

Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess.

A gossip.

A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.

Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, /God speed you./

Toward God.

One of several species of long-billed, wading birds of the genus Limosa, and family Tringid/. The European black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), the American marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa), the Hudsonian godwit (Limosa h/mastica), and others, are valued as game birds. Called also godwin.

Yellow.

A white tropical tern (Cygis candida).

A complex mixture of several substances extracted from Irish moss.

p. p. of Go.

One who, or that which, goes; a runner or walker A foot. A horse, considered in reference to his gait; as, a good goer; a safe goer.

of or pertaining to Goethe.

an oxide of iron.

A hydrous oxide of iron (HFeO2), occurring in prismatic crystals, also massive, with a fibrous, reniform, or stalactitic structure. The color varies from yellowish to blackish brown.

A myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil.

Invocation of evil spirits; witchcraft.

A game. See Golf.

To plait, flute, or crimp. See Gauffer.

Haste; ardent desire to go.

Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes.

One of two or more species of American fresh-water fishes of the family Centrarchid/, esp. Ch/nobryttus antistius, of Lake Michigan and adjacent waters, and Ambloplites rupestris, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; -- so called from their prominent eyes. The goggler.

Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.

Prominent; staring, as the eye.

A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

See Gurglet.

That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working; in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest men going; going prices or rate. Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on, with an indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases a going business, concern, etc. Of or pertaining to a going business or concern; as, the going value of a company.

An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck, usually resulting from iodine deficiency; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and was at one time common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland. The incidence of goiter has been substantially reduced by addition of iodine to ceratin foods, such as salt.

Affected with goiter.

any substance (like thiouracil or thiourea) that induces the formation of a goiter.

Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.

Gilded.

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer.

Encompassed with gold.

The yellow-hammer.

An annual European false flax (Camelina sativa) having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America.

An artisan who beats gold into goldleaf.

an idle worthless person.

The evasion of work or duty.

The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or Regulus regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.

The cuckoobud.

A fictional object shaped like a small golden sphere with wings, described in the series of /Harry Potter/ novels by J.K. Rowling. It is used in a fictional game called Quidditch, in which wizards on broomsticks fly through the air and, among other things, try to catch the golden snitch, which flies quickly and erratically, and is therefore difficult to catch.

A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (Glaucionetta Islandica) is less common.

A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing small yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago.

A plant of the genus Haplopappus.

A perennial herb of Northeastern U. S. (Hydrastis Canadensis) having a thick knotted yellow rootstock and large rounded leaves.

a district where gold is mined.

A small slender woolly annual (Lasthenia chrysostoma) with very narrow opposite leaves and branches bearing solitary golden-yellow flower heads; it grows from Southwestern Oregon to Baja California and Arizona; -- it is often cultivated.

A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William. The yellow-hammer. A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.

One of two or more species of European labroid fishes (Crenilabrus melops, and Ctenolabrus rupestris); -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.

A small domesticated cyprinoid fish (Carassius auratus); -- so named from its color. It is a native of China, and is said to have been introduced into Europe in 1691. It is often kept as an ornament, in small ponds or glass globes. Many varieties are known. Called also golden fish, and golden carp. See Telescope fish, under Telescope. A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.