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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.

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.

Economic goods that directly satisfy human wants or desires, such as food, clothes, pictures, etc.; -- called also consumption goods, or goods of the first order, and opposed to producer's goods.

A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

ess; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.

Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from consumers' goods.

A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck. Shak.

One who wastes; a spendthrift.

Those goods on a farm, such as corn, cattle, implements husbandry, etc., which may not be carried off by a removing tenant, as being the property of the landlord.

o put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense. [Obs.]. Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted. Jer. Taylor.

ard; to detest to extremity; to loathe. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Rom. xii. 9.

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till. Von Rosen had quietly abstracted the bearing-reins from the harness. W. Black.