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A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented. Heb. xi. 37.

arate from another by discerning differences; to distinguish. Cowper. To discriminate the goats from the sheep. Barrow.

The European goatsucker; -- so called because it eats the dor beetle. See Goatsucker. [Written also dorrhawk.] Booth.

The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

taken from a man, Is not so estimable, profitable neither, As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. Shak.

ceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.

acrifice or offering; an atonement. Those shadowy expiations weak, The blood of bulls and goats. Milton.

and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man. Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. Milton.

Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers.

Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot. "Footed like a goat." Grew.

Goat-toothed; having a lickerish tooth; lustful; wanton. [Obs.]

nd induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

ied to the kinglets. -- Gnat flower, the bee flower. -- Gnat hawk (Zoöl.), the European goatsucker; -- called also gnat owl. -- Gnat snapper (Zoöl.), a bird that catches gnats. -- Gnat strainer, a person ostentatiously punctilious about trifles. Cf. Matt. xxiii. 24.

A goat. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

s made from the coccus or kermes in sect. -- Grain leather. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. -- Grain moth (Zoöl.), one of several small moths, of the family Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cereAlella), whose larvæ devour grain in storeh…

or assembles domestic animals; a herdsman; -- much used in composition; as, a shepherd; a goatherd, and the like. Chaucer.

Goatlike; of or pertaining to a goat or the goats.

inted organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.