Good-tempered Good`-tem"pered adjective Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured .

Good-year Good"-year noun [ See Goujere .] The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Goodgeon Good"geon noun (Nautical) Same as Gudgeon , 5.

Goodish Good"ish adjective Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable.

Goodish pictures in rich frames.

Walpole.

Goodless Good"less adjective Having no goods. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Goodlich Good"lich adjective Goodly. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Goodliness Good"li·ness noun [ From Goodly .] Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness.

Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes.

Sir P. Sidney.

Goodly Good"ly adverb Excellently. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Goodly Good"ly adjective [ Compar. Goodlier ; superl. Goodliest .] [ Middle English godlich , Anglo-Saxon gōdlic . See Good , and Like .]

1. Pleasant; agreeable; desirable.

We have many goodly days to see.

Shak.

2. Of pleasing appearance or character; comely; graceful; as, a goodly person; goodly raiment, houses.

The goodliest man of men since born.

Milton.

3. Large; considerable; portly; as, a goodly number.

Goodly and great he sails behind his link.

Dryden.

Goodlyhead, Goodlyhood Good"ly·head, Good"ly·hood noun Goodness; grace; goodliness. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Goodman Good"man noun [ Good + man ]

1. A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. [ Obsolete]

With you, goodman boy, an you please.

Shak.

2. A husband; the master of a house or family; -- often used in speaking familiarly. [ Archaic] Chaucer.

Say ye to the goodman of the house, . . . Where is the guest-chamber ?

Mark xiv. 14.

» In the early colonial records of New England, the term goodman is frequently used as a title of designation, sometimes in a respectful manner, to denote a person whose first name was not known, or when it was not desired to use that name; in this use it was nearly equivalent to Mr . This use was doubtless brought with the first settlers from England.

Goodness Good"ness noun [ Anglo-Saxon gōdnes .] The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.

Goods Goods noun plural See Good , noun , 3.

Goodship Good"ship noun Favor; grace. [ Obsolete] Gower.

Goodwife Good"wife` noun The mistress of a house. [ Archaic] Robynson (More's Utopia).

Goody Good"y noun ; plural Goodies 1. A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the plural [ Colloq.]

2. (Zoology) An American fish; the lafayette or spot.

Goody Good"y noun ; plural Goodies . [ Prob. contr. from goodwife .] Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

Goody Good"y adjective Weakly or sentimentally good; affectedly good; -- often in the reduplicated form goody-goody . [ Colloq.]

Goody-goody Good"y-good`y adjective Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [ Colloq.]

Goodyship Good"y·ship noun The state or quality of a goody or goodwife [ Jocose] Hudibraus.

Gooroo, Guru Goo·roo", Gu·ru" noun [ Hind. gur... a spiritual parent or teacher, Sanskrit guru heavy, noble, venerable, teacher. Confer Grief .] A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos. Malcom.

Goosander Goos"an`der noun [ Middle English gossander , a tautological word formed from goose + gander . Confer Merganser .] (Zoology) A species of merganser ( M. merganser ) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser , dundiver , sawbill , sawneb , shelduck , and sheldrake . See Merganser .

Goose Goose (gōs) noun ; plural Geese (gēs). [ Middle English gos , Anglo-Saxon gōs , plural gēs ; akin to D. & German gans , Icelandic gās , Danish gaas , Swedish gås , Russian guse . OIr. geiss , Latin anser , for hanser , Greek chh`n , Sanskrit hamsa . √233. Confer Gander , Gannet , Ganza , Gosling .] (Zoology)

1. Any large web-footen bird of the subfamily Anserinæ , and belonging to Anser , Branta , Chen , and several allied genera. See Anseres .

» The common domestic goose is believed to have been derived from the European graylag goose ( Anser anser ). The bean goose ( A. segetum ), the American wild or Canada goose ( Branta Canadensis ), and the bernicle goose ( Branta leucopsis ) are well known species. The American white or snow geese and the blue goose belong to the genus Chen . See Bernicle , Emperor goose , under Emperor , Snow goose , Wild goose , Brant .

2. Any large bird of other related families, resembling the common goose.

» The Egyptian or fox goose ( Alopochen Ægyptiaca ) and the African spur-winged geese ( Plectropterus ) belong to the family Plectropteridæ . The Australian semipalmated goose ( Anseranas semipalmata ) and Cape Barren goose ( Cereopsis Novæ-Hollandiæ ) are very different from northern geese, and each is made the type of a distinct family. Both are domesticated in Australia.

3. A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose.

4. A silly creature; a simpleton.

5. A game played with counters on a board divided into compartments, in some of which a goose was depicted.

The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose .

Goldsmith.

A wild goose chase , an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. -- Fen goose . See under Fen . -- Goose barnacle (Zoology) , any pedunculated barnacle of the genus Anatifa or Lepas ; -- called also duck barnacle . See Barnacle , and Cirripedia . -- Goose cap , a silly person. [ Obsolete] Beau. & . -- Goose corn (Botany) , a coarse kind of rush ( Juncus squarrosus ). -- Goose feast , Michaelmas. [ Colloq. Eng.] -- Goose flesh , a peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also goose skin . -- Goose grass . (Botany) (a) A plant of the genus Galium ( G. Aparine ), a favorite food of geese; -- called also catchweed and cleavers . (b) A species of knotgrass ( Polygonum aviculare ). (c) The annual spear grass ( Poa annua ). -- Goose neck , anything, as a rod of iron or a pipe, curved like the neck of a goose; specially (Nautical) , an iron hook connecting a spar with a mast. -- Goose quill , a large feather or quill of a goose; also, a pen made from it. -- Goose skin . See Goose flesh , above. -- Goose tongue (Botany) , a composite plant ( Achillea ptarmica ), growing wild in the British islands. -- Sea goose . (Zoology) See Phalarope . -- Solan goose . (Zoology) See Gannet .

Goose egg Goose egg In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg . [ Slang]

Goose-rumped Goose"-rumped` adjective (Zoology) Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses.

Gooseberry Goose"ber·ry noun ; plural Gooseberries , [ Corrupted for groseberry or groiseberry , from Old French groisele , French groseille , -- of German origin; confer German krausbeere , kräuselbeere (fr. kraus crisp), Dutch kruisbes , kruisbezie (as if crossberry , from kruis cross; for kroesbes , kroesbezie , from kroes crisp), Swedish krusbär (fr. krus , krusing , crisp). The first part of the word is perhaps akin to English curl . Confer Grossular , adjective ] 1. (Botany) Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes ; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated.

2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith.

Barbadoes gooseberry , a climbing prickly shrub ( Pereskia aculeata ) of the West Indies, which bears edible berries resembling gooseberries. -- Coromandel gooseberry . See Carambola . -- Gooseberry fool . See lst Fool . -- Gooseberry worm (Zoology) , the larva of a small moth ( Dakruma convolutella ). It destroys the gooseberry by eating the interior.

Goosefish Goose"fish` noun (Zoology) See Angler .

Goosefoot Goose"foot` noun (Botany) A genus of herbs ( Chenopodium ) mostly annual weeds; pigweed.

Goosery Goos"er·y noun ; plural Gooseries 1. A place for keeping geese.

2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness.

The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor.

Milton.

Goosewing Goose"wing` noun (Nautical) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

Goosewinged Goose"winged` adjective (Nautical) (a) Having a "goosewing." (b) Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.

Goosish Goos"ish adjective Like a goose; foolish. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Goost Goost noun Ghost; spirit. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Goot Goot noun A goat. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Gopher Go"pher noun [ French gaufre waffle, honeycomb. See Gauffer .] (Zoology) 1. One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys , of the family Geomyidæ ; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat . See Pocket gopher , and Tucan .

» The name was originally given by French settlers to many burrowing rodents, from their honeycombing the earth.

2. One of several western American species of the genus Spermophilus , of the family Sciuridæ ; as, the gray gopher ( Spermophilus Franklini ) and the striped gopher ( S. tridecemlineatus ); -- called also striped prairie squirrel , leopard marmot , and leopard spermophile . See Spermophile .

3. A large land tortoise ( Testudo Carilina ) of the Southern United States, which makes extensive burrows.

4. A large burrowing snake ( Spilotes Couperi ) of the Southern United States.

Gopher drift (Mining) , an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. Raymond.

Gopher State Go"pher State Minnesota; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of gophers.

Gopher wood Go"pher wood` [ Hebrew gōpher .] A species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. Gen. vi. 14.

Gor-bellied Gor"-bel`lied adjective Bog- bellied. [ Obsolete]

Gor-belly Gor"-bel`ly noun [ Gore filth, dirt + belly .] A prominent belly; a big-bellied person. [ Obsolete]

Goracco Go·rac"co noun A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

Goral Go"ral noun (Zoology) An Indian goat antelope ( Nemorhedus goral ), resembling the chamois.

Goramy Go"ra·my noun (Zoology) Same as Gourami .

Gorce Gorce noun [ Old French gort , nom. gorz , gulf, Latin gurges whirlpool, gulf, stream. See Gorge .] A pool of water to keep fish in; a wear. [ Obsolete]

Gorcock Gor"cock` noun [ Prob. from gore blood.] (Zoology) The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse . [ Prov. Eng.]

Gorcrow Gor"crow` noun [ Anglo-Saxon gor dung, dirt. See Gore blood, dirt.] (Zoology) The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow . [ Prov. Eng.]

Gord Gord noun [ Written also gourd .] [ Perh. hollow, and so named in allusion to a gourd .] An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice. [ Obsolete] Beau. & Fl.

Gordiacea Gor`di·a"ce·a noun plural [ New Latin See Gordian , 1.] (Zoology) A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels ( Gordius and Mermis ). See Gordius , and Illustration in Appendix.

Gordian Gor"di·an adjective 1. Pertaining to Gordius , king of Phrygia, or to a knot tied by him; hence, intricate; complicated; inextricable.

Gordian knot , an intricate knot tied by Gordius in the thong which connected the pole of the chariot with the yoke. An oracle having declared that he who should untie it should be master of Asia, Alexander the Great averted the ill omen of his inability to loosen it by cutting it with his sword. Hence, a Gordian knot is an inextricable difficulty; and to cut the Gordian knot is to remove a difficulty by bold and energetic measures.

2. (Zoology) Pertaining to the Gordiacea.

Gordian Gor"di·an noun (Zoology) One of the Gordiacea.

Gordius Gor"di·us noun [ New Latin See Gordian , 1.] (Zoology) A genus of long, slender, nematoid worms, parasitic in insects until near maturity, when they leave the insect, and live in water, in which they deposit their eggs; -- called also hair eel , hairworm , and hair snake , from the absurd, but common and widely diffused, notion that they are metamorphosed horsehairs.

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