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A large goblet or drinking glass, -- used for lager beer or ale. [U.S.]

An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.

The European black goby (Gobius niger).

mall pieces, or splinters; to shatter; to dash to pieces by a blow; as, to shiver a glass goblet. All the ground With shivered armor strown. Milton.

A large fresh-water gobioid fish (Eleotris dormatrix).

fairy; an elf. Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark. Locke.

A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. [Written also spuke.] Ld. Lytton.

An elf; a fairy; a goblin.

r class which shall arise during the session or a stated period. -- Standing cup, a tall goblet, with a foot and a cover. -- Standing finish (Arch.), that part of the interior fittings, esp. of a dwelling house, which is permanent and fixed in its place, as distinguished from doors, sashes, etc. -- Standing order (E…

A gobioid fish (Eleotris gyrinus) of the Southern United States; -- called also sleeper.

o use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation. Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs. Shak. Some other means I have which may be used. Milton.

lifeless; especially, the lifeless part of liquor or wine. [Obs.] In vain it is to wash a goblet, if you mean to put it nothing but the dead lees and vap of wine. Jer. Taylor.

Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as, worm-eaten timber. Concave as a covered goblet, or a worm-eaten nut. Shak.

A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales.