GLUTEAL, glu-te'al, a. In Anatomy, pertaining to the glutens, as the gluteal muscles. GLUTEN, gluten, s. (Latin.) A viscid elastic substance of a greyish colour, which is procured by the decomposition of wheat-flour, or other vegetable substances. It contributes much to the nutritive quality of flour, and gives adhesiveness to its paste; also, that part of the blood which gives firmness to its texture.

GLUTEUS, glu-te'us, s. (gloutos, the buttocks, Gr.) The name of certain muscles connected with the buttocks. The G. maximus is that upon which a person sits, and serves to extend the thighit also assists in rotatory motion: the G. medius acts in standing: the G. minimus is that which assists the others; hence, we have the term gluteal applied to the posterior iliac arteryto the lymphatics, which have the same distribution as that artery-and to a nerve distributed to the gluteal muscles.

GLUTINATE, glu ́te-nate, v. a. (glutino, Lat.) To unite with glue; to cement. GLUTINATION, glu-te-na'shun, s. The act of uniting with glue.

GLUTINATIVE, glu'te-nay-tiv, a. Having the quality of cementing; tenacious. GLUTINOSITY, glu-te-nos'e-te, s. The quality of being glutinous; viscousness.

GLUTINOUS, glu'te-nus, a. (glutinosus, Lat.) Viscous; viscid; tenacious; having the quality of glue; resembling glue. In Botany, overspread with a viscid moisture. GLUTINOUSNESS, glu'te-nus-nes, s.

Viscosity;

viscidity; the quality of glue; tenacity. GLUTTON, glut'tn, s. (glouton, Fr.) One who indulges to excess in eating; one eager of anything to excess. In Zoology, the common name of the Volverine, see Gula;— ;-v. a. to load; to glut; to overfill.-Obsolete as a verb.

Then after all your fooling, fat, and wine,
Glutton'd at last, return at home to pine.-Lovelace.

GLUTTONIZE, glut'tn-ize, v. n. To eat to excess; to eat voraciously; to be luxurious; to indulge the appetite to excess.

GLUTTONOUS, glut'tn-us, a. Given to excessive eating; consisting in excessive eating. GLUTTONOUSLY, glut'tn-us-le, ad. With the voracity of a glutton; with excessive eating. GLUTTONY, glut ́tn-e, s. Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; luxury of the table; voracity of appetite. GLYCE, gli'se, s. (glykys, sweet, Gr.) A genus of Cruciferous plants, established by Lindley on the Alyssum maritima of Lamark, a British species found on the sea-coast: Suborder, Pleurorhizeæ. GLYCERA, glis'e-ra, s. (glykeros, sweet, Gr.) A genus of Annelides: Family, Nereida.

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GLYCERIA, gle-se're-a, s. (glykeros, sweet, Gr. from the nature of the herbage.) A genus of plants: Order, Graminacea.

GLYCERINE, glis'er-ine, s. (glykeros, sweet, Gr.) The sweet principle contained in the different oils, as formed in the process of saponification. GLYCERULE, glis'er-ule, s. The hypothetical base of glycerine, which is the hydrated oxide of glycerule. Formula, C2 H7 Gl.; the formula of glycerine being C6 H7 05 + Aq.

GLYCICOL, glis'e-kol, s. Gelatine sugar, a substance obtained by gelatine being acted on by sulphuric acid. Formula, C8 H7 N2 05 +

2HO.

GLYCINE, glis'e-ne, s. (glykys, sweet, Gr. from the leaves and roots of some of the species being sweet.) A genus of climbing Leguminous herbs: Suborder, Papilionaceæ.

GLYCION. See Glycyrrhizine. GLYCONIAN, gli-ko'ne-an,) a. (Glykon, its invenGLYCONIC, gli-kon ́ik, Stor.) Denoting a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry, consisting of three feet a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic. GLYCOSMIS, gle-kos'mis, s. (glykys, sweet, and osme, smell, Gr. in reference to the sweet-scented flowers.) A genus of plants, consisting of trees with impari-pinnate leaves, and small sweetscented white flowers; natives of Coromandel and the Mauritius: Order, Aurantiaceæ. GLYCYMERIS, glis-im'er-is, s. (glykymerides, a kind of oyster, Gr.) A genus of Mollusca, the shell of which is oblong and transverse, with both extremities gaping; no cardinal or lateral teeth; hinge margin very thick; ligament large and cxternal; nearly allied to Solen: Family, Myada. GLYCYRRHIZA, glis-e-ri'za, s. (glykys, sweet, and rhizu, a root, Gr.) The Liquorice, a genus of perennial Leguminous herbs, with long sweet roots, impari-pinnate leaves, and axillary racemes of blue, violaceous, or white flowers: Suborder, Papilionacer.

GLYCYRRHIZINE, gli-sir'e-zine, s. The peculiar saccharine matter of the root of Glycyrrhizs glabra, or common liquorice. GLYN.-See Glen.

GLYPH, glif, s. (glypho, I carve, Gr.) In Architecture, a perpendicular fluting or channel, used in the Doric frieze.-See Triglyph. GLYPHIC.-See Hieroglyphic. GLYPHIS, gli'tis, s. (glypho, I carve, Gr.) A genus of Lichens: Tribe, Idiothalaineæ. Also, a genus of fossil Placoid fishes from the London clay. GLYPHISODON, gle-fis'o-don, s. (glypho, I carve, and odous, a tooth, Gr.) A genus of fishes, having the general form of Chaetodon, but the teeth are strong, cutting, and emarginate, or notched in the middle and placed in a row; gills smooth; fins nearly covered with scales; caudal fin large and forked; mouth small: Family, Chatodonidæ.

GLYPHOSPERMUM, glif-o-sperʼmum, s. (glypho, I carve, and sperma, a seed, Gr. the seeds being beset with excavated dots.) A genus of small branched herbs, with violaceous flowers: Order, Gentianaceæ.

GLYPTIC, glip'tik, a. (glypho, I carve, Gr.) Pertaining to the carving on stone, or any other hard substance; s. Glyptics, the art of engraving figures on precious stones.

GLYPTOCEPHALUS, glip-to-sef'a-lus 8. (glypko, ¦

GLYPTODON-GNATHODON.

and kephale, a head, Gr.) A genus of fossil Cycloid fishes, found in the London clay. GLYPTODON, glip'to-don, s. (glypho, I engrave, and odous, a tooth, Gr.) The name given, on account of the peculiarity of its teeth, to an extinct quadruped of the size of an ox. GLYPTOGRAPHIC, glip-to-graf'fik, a. Describing the methods of engraving on precious stones. GLYPTOGRAPHY, glip-tog'ra-fe, s. (glypho, I carve, and grapho, I describe, Gr.) A description of the art of engraving gems, &c.

GLYPTOSTEUS, glip-tos'te-us, s. (glypho, and os, a bone, Gr.) A genus of fossil Ganoid fishes, from the old red sandstone of Caithness and Elgin. GLYPTOTHECA, glip-to-the'ka, s. (glypho, and theke, deposit, Gr.) A room or building appropriated to the preservation of works of sculpture. GMELINA, me-li'na, s. (in honour of J. George Gmelin, author of Flora Sibirica.) A genus of Asiatic plants: Order, Verbenaceæ. GMELINITE, me'lin-ite, s. (in honour of Professor Gmelin of Tubigen.) Hydroliter or Hexahedral Kouphone- spar, a mineral of a white passing into a flesh-red colour. It occurs in secondary flat six-sided prisms, terminated at both extremities by truncated six-sided prisms. Its constituents are-soda, 4.5; silica, 50.0; alumina, 20; lime, 4.5; water, 20.0: sp. gr. 2.0-2.1. H=4.5. GNAPHALIUM, na-fa'le-um, s. (gnaphalion, the Greek name for a plant used in stuffing cushions, cudweed?) Everlasting, a genus of Composite plants, distinguished by the beauty and permanence of their dry flowers-natives of the Cape of Good Hope: Suborder, Tubulifloræ.

GNAR, năr,v. n. (gnyrran, Sax.) To growl; GNARL, nărl, to murmur; to snarl.

Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side,

And wolves are gnarling which shall gnaw thee first. -Shaks.

GNARLED, nărld, a. Knotty; full of knots. GNASH, nash, v. a. (knasher, Dan.) To strike the teeth together, as in anger or pain;-v. n. to grind the teeth; to rage, even to collision with the teeth; to growl.

GNASHING, nash'ing, s. A grinding or striking of the teeth in rage or anguish.

GNAT, nat, s. (gnat, Sax.) The common name of insects of the mosquito kind,-see Culex; anything proverbially small.

GNATHIDIA, na-thid'e-a, s. (gnathos, a jaw, Gr.) In Ornithology, the lateral parts or rami of the mandible or lower jaw, which are united to the cranium behind, and n eet in front at a greater or less angle.

GNATHITIS, na-thi'tis, s. (gnathos, the jaw, Gr.)

Inflammation of the jaw or cheek. GNATHIUM, na'the-um, s. (gnathos, the jaw, Gr.) A genus of Coleopterous insects: Family, Trachelides.

GNATHOCEPHALUS, nath-o-sef' a-lus, s. (gnathos, and kephale, the head, Gr.) A term used by Geoffroy St. Hilaire to denote a monster which has no head visible externally, but exhibits voluminous jaws.

GNATHODON, nath'o-don, s. (gnathos, and odous, a tooth, Gr.) A genus of Mollusca, the shell of which is transversely ovate and inequilateral; the bosses thick, prominent, and remote; cardinal teeth,; lateral, ; ligament external: Family, Tellinida.

GNATHONICAL-GNOMIOMETRICAL.

GNATHONICAL, na-thon'e-kal, a. (gnatho, a flatterer, Lat.) Flattering; deceitful.-Obsolete. GNATHONICALLY, na-thon'e-kal-le, ad. Flatteringly; deceitfully.-Obsolete.

GNATHOPHYLLUM, nath-o-fil'lum, s. (gnathos, and phyllon, a leaf.) A genus of Decapod Crustaceans: Family, Macroura.

GNATHORRHAGIA, nath-o-ra'je-a, s. (gnathos, and regnymi, I burst forth, Gr.) Hæmorrhage from

the internal surface of the cheeks. GNATHOSPASMUS, nath-o-spas'mus, s. (gnathos, and spasmos, a spasm, Gr.) Spasmodic contraction of the muscles of the lower jaw. GNATHOTHECA, nath-o-the'ka, s. (gnathos, and

theke, a sheath, Gr.) In Ornithology, the horny or cutaneous integument of the beak. GNATHUS, gna'thus, s. (gnathos, from gnapto, I bend, Gr.) In Zoology, the jaw, or jaw-bone; the cheek.

GNAVITY, nav'e-te, s. (gnavus, diligent, Lat.) Activity; sprightliness.-Not used.

GNAW, naw, v. a. (gnagan, Sax.) To eat by degrees; to consume by slow corrosion; to bite in agony or rage; to wear away by biting; to fret; to waste; to corrode; to chew with difficulty that which is tough or hard; to pick with the teeth; -v. n. to use the teeth in biting. GNAWER, naw'ur, s. He or that which gnaws GNAWERS, naw'urz, s. pl. In Zoology,- see Glires

and Rodentia.

GNEISS, nise, s. (German.) A rock generally composed of the same ingredients as granite-viz., quartz, felspar, and mica. It sometimes contains hornblende in place of mica. In some varieties one or other of the ingredients is absent. It is of a granitic, shistose, or laminar structure. It is the oldest of the primary rocks. GNETACEÆ, ne-ta'se-e, s. (gnetum, one of the genera.) Joint Firs, a natural order of Gymnogens, consisting of small trees or shrubs, with repeatedly branched jointed stems; simple net-veined leaves; one-celled anthers opening by pores; and the membrane next the nucleus protruded; flowers arranged in catkins or heads; calyx one-leaved, and transversely slit at the end.

GNETUM, ne'tum, s. (from gnemon, its name in the island of Ternate.) Joint Fir, a genus of East Indian plants, consisting of an Indian tree: Type of the order Gnetaces.

GNOFF, nof, s. A miser.-Obsolete.

The catiff gmoff said to his crue,
My money is many, my incomes but few.-
Com. Chauc.'s Mill Tale.

The

GNOMA, no'ma, s. (from Gnome.) A genus of GNOME, nome, 8. GNOMES, or GNOMI, pl. (gnomon, Coleopterous insects: Family, Rhyncophora. an interpreter, Gr.) An imaginary being, supposed to inhabit the inner parts of the earth. Gnomes are represented as of small stature, and as being the guardians of mines, quarries, &c.; a brief reflection or maxim.-Obsolete in the last sense. GNOMIC, no'mik, a. (gnomikos, Gr.) DealGNOMICAL, nom'e-kal, ing in maxims; senten

tious.-Seldom used.

Adding this excellent, gnomical, and canonlike conclusion.-Conference at Hampton Court.

Gnomic projection, a representation of one of the hemispheres of the earth on a flat surface, the pole being the centre of that surface. GNOMIOMETRICAL, nom-e-o-met're-kal, a. (gno

GNOMOLOGICAL, nom-o-lod'je-kal, to gnomology. GNOMOLOGY, no-inol'o-je, s. (gnome, a brief maxim, and logos, Gr.) A collection of maxims and reflections.-Seldom used.

Which art of powerful reclaiming, wisest men have also taught in their ethical precepts and gnomologies.— Milton.

GNOMON, no'mon, s. (Greek.) In Dialing, the style of a sun-dial, which represents the axis of the earth, and by its shadow shows the hour of the day. In Astronomy, a style erected perpendicular to the horizon, in order to point out the altitude of the sun, or measure the length of shadows. Gnomon of a globe, the index of the hour circle. In Geometry, the part of a parallelogram which remains when one of the parallels about its diagonal is removed; or the portion of the parallelogram, composed of two complements and one of the parallelograms about the diagonal. GNOMONIC, no-mon'ik, La. Pertaining to GNOMONICAL, no-mon'c-kal, dialing. GNOMONICS, no-mon'iks, s. The art of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon.

GNOMONOLOGY, no-mon-ol'o-je, s. (gnomon, and logos, a discourse or treatise, Gr.) A treatise on dialing.

GNORISTA, no-ris'ta, 8. (gnoriste, one that takes cognizance of, Gr.) A genus of Dipterous insects: Family, Nemocera.

GNOSTIC, nos'tik, s. (gnosticus, knowing, Lat.) The Gnostics were a sect of philosophers who seem to have appeared in the first century. They believed that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, but inferior to the Father-that He came into the world for the rescue and happiness of man. They rejected the humanity of Christ, upon the principle that everything corporeal is essentially and intrinsically evil. The persuasion that evil resided in matter as its centre and source made them treat the body with contempt, discourage marriage, and deny the resurrection of the dead, and its reunion with the spirit. They divided all nature into three kinds of beings-the hylic or material, the psychic or animal, and the pneumatic or spiritual. Mankind by them was likewise classed into three divisions. The material, those who were incapable of knowledge, and perished soul and body; the spiritual, among whom the Gnostics classed themselves, were certain of salvation; the animal, those who were either capable of being saved or damned;-a. pertaining to the Gnostics. GNOSTICISM, nos'te-sizm, s. The doctrines or system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics. GNU or GNOO.- See Catoblepas.

Go, go, v. n. (gan, Sax. gehen, Germ.) Past, Went; past part. Gone. To walk; to move step by step; to walk leisurely; not to run; to walk solemnly; to travel; to journey by land or water; to depart; to move from a place; to proceed; to pass in any manner or to any end; to move or pass customa

GO.

be

rily from place to place, denoting custom or practice; to proceed from one state or opinion to another; to change; to proceed in mental operations; to advance; to penetrate; to proceed or advance in accomplishing an end; to apply; to be applicable; to apply one's self; to have recourse to; to pass; to be accounted in value; to circulate; to pass in report; to be received; to be accounted or understood to be; to move, or be in motion; to have a tendency; to be in compact or partnership; to be guided or regulated; to proceed by some principle or rule; to be pregnant; to be alienated in payment or exchange; to be loosed or released; to be freed from restraint; to be expended; to extend; to reach; to extend or lead in any direction; to have effect; to extend in effect; to avail; to be of force or value; to extend in meaning or purport; to have a currency or use, as custom, opinion, or manners; to contribute; to conduce; to concur; to be carried on; to proceed to final issue; to terminate; to succeed; to proceed in a train or in consequences; to fare; to be in a good or ill state; to have a tendency or effect; to operate; to go about, to set one's self to a business; to endeavour. In Nautical Language, to tack; to turn the head of a ship; to go abroad, to walk out of a house; to be uttered, disclosed, or published; to go against, to invade; to march; to attack; to be in opposition; to be disagreeable; to go aside, to withdraw; to retire into a private situation; to err; to deviate from the right way; to go astray, to wander; to break from an enclosure; also, to leave the right course; to depart from law or rule; to sin; to transgress; to go away, to depart; to go to a distance; to go tween, to interpose; to mediate; to attempt to reconcile or to adjust differences; to go by, to pass near and beyond; to pass away unnoticed; to omit; to go down, to descend in any manner; to fail; to come to nothing; to be swallowed or received, not rejected; to go forth, to issue or depart out of a place; to go forward, to advance; to go hard with, to be in danger of a fatal issue; to have difficulty to escape; to go into, to have entrance; to go in and out, to do the business of life; to go freely; to be at liberty; to go off, to depart to a distance; to leave a place or station; to be discharged, as fire-arms; to explode; to go on, to proceed; to advance forward; to be put on as a garment; to go out, to issue forth; to go on an expedition; to become extinct, as light or life; to expire; to become public; to go over, to read; to peruse; to study; to examine; to view or review; to think over; to proceed or pass in mental operation; to pass from one party to another; to pass from one side to the other, as of a river; to go through, to pass in a substance; to execute; to accomplish; to perform thoroughly; to finish; to suffer; to bear; to undergo; to sustain to the end; to go through with, to execute effectually; to go under, to be talked of or known, as by a title or name; to go upon, to proceed, as on a foundation; to take as a principle supposed or settled; to go with, to accompany; to pass with others; to side with; to be in party or design with; to go ill with, to have ill fortune; not to prosper; to go well with, to have good fortune; to prosper; to go without, to be or remain destitute; to go for nothing, to have no meaning, efficacy, or value; to go without day, in law phra

GOAD-GOBIANÆ.

seology, signifies to be dismissed the court; go to, come, move, begin; a phrase of exhortation, also a phrase of scornful exhortation.

GOAD, gode, s. (gad, Sax.) A pointed instrument used in urging a beast forward;-v. a. to prick; to drive with a goad; to incite; to stimulate; to urge forward.

GOAL, gole, s. (gaule, Fr.) The point set to bound a race, and to which racers run; the startingpost; the final purpose; the end to which a design tends.

Each individual seeks a several goal, But heav'n's great view is one, and that the whole.Pope. GOAR, gore, s. (geir, Icel.) A slip of cloth inserted to widen a garment. GOARING, go'ring, a. In Navigation, an epithet GORING, applied to a sail which is cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earring.

GOARISH, go'rish, a. Patched; mean; doggerel. -Obsolete.

May they know no language but that gibberish they prattle to their parcels, unless it be the goarish Latin they write in their bonds; and may they write that false, and lose their debts.-Beau. & Flet.

GOAT, gote, s. (gæt, Sax. geit, Dut.) The English name of the well-known Ruminant of the genus Capra, characterized by its long horns and beard. Goat's-fennel, the common name given to certain plants forming the section Egomarathrum, (aix aigos, a goat, and marathron, fennel, Gr.) of the genus Cachyris. Great Goat's-thorn, the plant Astralagus tragacantha; small Goat's-thorn, Astralagus poterium. Goat's-fool, the plant Oxalis caprina. Goat or goral antelopes,-see Nemorhœdus.

GOATHERD, gote herd, s. One whose occupation is to tend goats.

GOATISH, gote'ish, a. Resembling a goat in any
quality; of a rank smell; lustful.
GOAT'S-BEARD.-See Tragopogon.
GOAT'S-RUE.-See Galego.
GOATSUCKERS.-See Caprimulgus.

GOB, gob, 8. (Welsh, a heap, gobe, Fr.) A little mass or collection;

Do'st think I have so little wit as to part with such a gob of money?-L'Estrunge.

a mouthful.-A vulgar word. GOBBET, gob'bit, s. A mouthful; as much as can be swallowed at once;-v. a. to swallow at a mouthful.-A vulgar word. GOBBING, gob'bing, s. In Mining, the refuse thrown back into the excavations remaining after the removal of the coal, &c. GOBBLE, gob'bl, v. a. (gober, I swallow, Fr.) To swallow hastily; to swallow in large pieces ;v. n. to make a noise in the throat, as a turkey. Of last year's corn in barn great store; Fat turkies gobbling at the door.-Prior. GOBBLE-GUT, gob'bl-gut, s. A greedy feeder.

Obsolete.

GOBBLER, gob'bl-ur, s. One who swallows in haste; a greedy eater; a gormandizer. GO-BETWEEN, go'be-tween, s. An interposer; one who transacts business between parties. GOBIANE, go-bi'an-e, s. A subfamily or division of the Gobies, in which the body is slimy; the head large and depressed; the sides fat and gibbous; the size small.

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GOBIDÆ, gob'e-de, s. (gobius, the goby, one of the genera.) A family of Malacopterygious fishes, belonging to the tribe Canthelepes, or Mailedcheeks. The Gobies have the ventral fins perfect, very close, and generally united, of several branched rays.

GOBIESOX, go-be-e'soks, s. (gobius, the goby, and esox, a genus of fishes.) A genus of fishes, allied to the Cyclopteris: Family, Cyclopteridæ. GOBIO, go'be-o, s. The ancient name of the gudgeon, now applied to a genus of fossil fishes. GOBIUS, gob'e-us, s. (Latin, the gudgeon.) The Goby, a genus of fishes, in which the caudal fin is rounded, rarely lanceolate; the ventral fins completely united into a concave disk; dorsal fins and distinct lower jaw longest: Type of the family Gobida.

GOBLET, gob ́let, s. (gobelet, Fr.) A kind of cup or drinking vessel.

GOBLIN, gob'lin, s. (gobelin, Fr.) An evil spirit; a walking spirit; a frightful phantom; a fairy; an elf.

GOBY.-See Gobius.

GO-BY, go'bi, s. Evasion; escape by artifice; a passing without notice; a thrusting away; a GO-CART, goʻkărt, s. shifting off. A machine with wheels, in which children learn to walk without danger of falling.

GOD, god, s. (Saxon, gott, Dut. gud, Germ. goth or guth, Swed. and Dan.) The Supreme Being; Jehovah; the Eternal and Infinite Spirit; the Creator and the Sovereign of the universe; a false god; a heathen deity; an idol; any person or thing deified or too much honoured :--v. a. to deify. Obsolete as a verb.

This last old man

Lov'd me above the measure of a father;
Nay, godded me, indeed.-Shaks.

GOD-BOTE, god'bote, s. (Saxon.) A fine or amer-
ciament for crimes or offences committed against
God and religion: an ecclesiastical or church fine.
-Cowel.

GODCHILD, god'tshilde, s. One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and promises to see educated as a Christian.

GODDAUGHTER, god'daw-tur, s. A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.

GODDESS, god'des, s. A female deity; a heathen deity of the female sex. In the language of love, a highly beautiful or intellectual woman. GODDESSLIKE, god'des-like, a. Resembling a goddess. GODFATHER, god'fa-thur, s. The man who is sponsor for a child at baptism;-v. a. to act as godfather; to take under one's fostering care. GODGILD, god'gild, s. (God, and gildan, to pay, Sax.) That which is offered to God or his service.-Obsolete.

GODHEAD, god'hed, s. Godship; deity; divinity; divine nature or essence-it is used both of idols and the true God; a deity in person; a god or goddess.

GODLESS, god'les, a. Having no reverence for God; impious; ungodly; irreligious; wicked; atheistical; having no belief in the existence of God.

GODLESSNESS, god'les-nes, s. The state of being impious.

GODLIKE, god'like, a. Resembling God; divine;

GODLIKENESS-GOEL.

GOELAND-GOITRE.

end.) A name given by Buffon to certain species of the Sea-gull.-See Larus.

ness.

GODLILY, god'le-le, ad. Piously; righteously: commonly written godly. GODLINESS, god'le-nes, s.

Piety; belief in God and reverence for his character and laws; a religious life; a careful observance of the law of God, and performance of religious duties; revelation; the system of Christianity.

GOER, goʻur, s. One that goes; a runner or walker; one that has a gait or manner of walking, good or bad; in an ill sense, one that transacts business between parties; a term applied to a horse, as he is a safe-goer or a good-goer;' the foot.Obsolete in the last sense.

A double mantle cast
Athwart his shoulders, his faire goers grac't
With fitted shoes. - Chapman.

Thy puny gollings of inferior race,

Whose humble statues are content with brass.Dryden. GODLY, god'le, a. Pious; reverencing God and his character and laws; living in obedience to God's commands; religious; righteous; conformed to God's law;-ad. piously; righteously. GODLYHEAD.-See Goodlyhead. GODMOTHER, god'muth-ur, s. A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. GODOWN, go'down, s. (a corruption of the Malay word godong.) A warehouse.-An East Indian

GODSMITH, god'smith, s. A maker of idols.
Gods they had tried of every shape and size,
That godsmiths could produce, or priests devise.-
Dryden.

GODSON, god'sun, s. (godsunu, Sax.) One for whom another has been sponsor at the font. GODSPEED, god'speed, s. Good speed; success granted by God.

GOD'S-PENNY, gods'pen-ne, s. An old expression for an earnest-penny.

There's a god's-penny for thee.—Beau. & Flot. GODWARD, god'wawrd, ad. Toward God.--Inelegant, and seldom used.

And such trust have we through Christ to Godward. -2 Cor.

GODYELD,god'yeld, ad. A term of thanks.GODYIELD, Obsolete.

Tusser.

The Devil's Coach-horse,

a genus of Coleopterous insects, common in gardens: Family, Styphylinidæ.

GOETHEA, go-e-the'a, or go-te'a, s. (in honour of the celebrated Goethe, or Gothe, the German poet.) A genus of plants, consisting of trees or shrubs, with smooth coriaceous leaves, and showy nodding flowers: Order. Byttneriacea.

GOETHITE, go'e-thite, s. (in honour of the celebrated German poet Goethe.) A rare German mineral of a brownish-red colour, by reflection yellowish, and of a brilliant red when transparent and viewed in a strong light; streak orange-red; lustre metallic, adamantine; primary form of the crystal, a rhomboidal or rectangular prism. It occurs in minute laminæ, or tables modified on their edges by oblique facets. Its constituents are-peroxide of iron, 88.00; oxide of manganese, 0.50; water, 10.75; silica, 0. or 0.50.

GOETY, go'e-te, s. Invocation of evil spirits.-Ob

solete.

eye.

GOGGLE-EYED, gog'gl-ide, a. Having prominent, distorted, or rolling eyes.

GOGGLES, gog'gls, s. pl. (gogeln, Welsh.) In Surgery, instruments used for curing squinting, or that distortion of the eyes which occasions this disorder. They are short conical tubes, composed of ivory stained black, with a thin plate of the same ivory fixed in tubes near their anterior extremities. Through the centre of each of these plates is a small circular hole, about the size of the pupil of the eye, for the transmission of the rays of light. GOING, goʻing, s. The act of moving; the act of walking; departure; pregnancy; procedure; way; course of life; behaviour; deportment; providential agency or government. Going through the bar, in Law, the act of calling in succession upon each barrister sitting in court to move or address the court on any business which may have been intrusted to him. This is done by the Lord Chief Justice, and the practice is confined to the sittings in banco.

course of

GOITRE, goy'ter, s. (French.) In Pathology, an indolent tumour of the thyroid gland.-See Bronchocele. In Zoology, the cutaneous swelling con