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With maldness of temper.

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

Same as Gudgeon, 5.

Rather good than the contrary; not actually bad; tolerable. Goodish pictures in rich frames. Walpole.

Having no goods. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Goodly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Beauty of form; grace; elegance; comeliness. Her goodliness was full of harmony to his eyes. Sir P. Sidney.

Pleasant; agreeable; desirable. We have many goodly days to see. Shak.

Goodness; grace; goodliness. [Obs.] Spenser.

A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. [Obs.] With you, goodman boy, an you please. Shak.

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.

See Good, n., 3.

Favor; grace. [Obs.] Gower.

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

Goodwife; -- a low term of civility or sport.

Mawkishly or weakly good; exhibiting goodness with silliness. [Colloq.]

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

A spiritual teacher, guide, or confessor amoung the Hindoos. Malcom.

A species of merganser (M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.

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