Go-out noun A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out. [ Written also gowt .]

Good-looking adjective Handsome.

Good-natured adjective Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked.

Syn. -- Good-natured , Good-tempered , Good- humored . Good-natured denotes a disposition to please and be pleased. Good-tempered denotes a habit of mind which is not easily ruffled by provocations or other disturbing influences. Good-humored is applied to a spirit full of ease and cheerfulness, as displayed in one's outward deportment and in social intercourse. A good-natured man recommends himself to all by the spirit which governs him. A good-humored man recommends himself particularly as a companion. A good-tempered man is rarely betrayed into anything which can disturb the serenity of the social circle.

Good-naturedly adverb With mildness of temper.

Good-tempered adjective Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured .

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

Goodless adjective Having no goods. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Goodlich adjective Goodly. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Goodliness noun [ From Goodly .] Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness.

Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes.

Sir P. Sidney.

Goodly adverb Excellently. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Goodly 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 noun Goodness; grace; goodliness. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Goodman 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 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 noun plural See Good , noun , 3.

Goodship noun Favor; grace. [ Obsolete] Gower.

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

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

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

Goodyship noun The state or quality of a goody or goodwife [ Jocose] Hudibraus.

Gooroo, Guru 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 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 (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 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 adjective (Zoology) Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses.

Gooseberry 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 noun (Zoology) See Angler .

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

Goosery 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 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 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 adjective Like a goose; foolish. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Goost noun Ghost; spirit. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Goot noun A goat. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Gopher 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 Minnesota; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of gophers.

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

Gor-bellied adjective Bog- bellied. [ Obsolete]

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

Goracco noun A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

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

Goramy noun (Zoology) Same as Gourami .

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

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

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 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.