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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 species of wood used in the construction of Noah's ark. Gen. vi. 14.

A state of greenness; verdancy. Chaucer.

Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade. Dryden.

A cytode without either a cell wall or a nucleus. Haeckel.

One of a group of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates, on each jaw, as the diodonts and tetradonts. See Bur fish, Globefish, Diodon.

Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.