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Prominent; staring, as the eye.

A carangoid oceanic fish (Trachurops crumenophthalmus), having very large and prominent eyes; -- called also goggle-eye, big-eyed scad, and cicharra.

See Gurglet.

The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

An enlargement of the thyroid gland, on the anterior part of the neck; bronchocele. It is frequently associated with cretinism, and is most common in mountainous regions, especially in certain parts of Switzerland.

Affected with goiter.

Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele. Let me not be understood as insinuating that the inhabitants in general are either goitrous or idiots. W. Coxe.

Money; riches; wealth. For me, the gold of France did not seduce. Shak.

Gilded. [Obs.]

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

Encompassed with gold.

The yellow-hammer.

An old English name of some yellow flower, -- the marigold (Calendula), according to Dr. Prior, but in Chaucer perhaps the turnsole.

The European golden-crested kinglet (Regulus cristatus, or R. regulus); -- called also golden-crested wren, and golden wren. The name is also sometimes applied to the American golden-crested kinglet. See Kinglet.

The cuckoobud.

Made of gold; consisting of gold.

California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.

a, and America. The American variety (var. Americana) is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America (G. Islandica) is less common.

A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.

In golden terms or a golden manner; splendidly; delightfully. [Obs.] Shak.